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MBC40 Managing ABAP Development Projects

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Course Overview

Requirements, Target Group, Duration

• Course Objectives
• Contents

Change Levels

• ASAP
• Personalization
• ABAP Workbench
• ABAP Programming is Designed for:
• ABAP Workbench Change Levels
• Change Levels: A Comparison
• Implementing Development Projects
• Modifying Versus Copying
• ABAP Development Projects - Evaluation
• The Amount of Work at Upgrade Increases
• Modifications: Critical Repository Object Types
• Summary
• Change Levels: Exercise

ABAP Development Projects and ASAP

• ASAP as a Part of TeamSAP
• ASAP Includes
• ABAP Development Projects in ASAP
• Tools and ASAP
• Summary

Project Team

• Position on the ASAP Roadmap
• Roles in Customer Development Projects (1)
• Who Decides if Development is Necessary?
• Integration of Employees into the Project Team (1)
• Registering a Developer in SSCR
• On-Site Consulting
• Levels of On-Site Consulting: ABAP Workbench
• SAP R/3 Consulting Services
• SAP R/3 Education Services: ABAP Workbench
• Summary

Software Logistics

• Position on the ASAP Roadmap
• Software Logistics: Overview
• Planning the System Landscape for Development
• Setting up the System Landscape
• Maintaining the System Landscape
• Centralized and Decentralized Development
• Workbench Organizer and the Transport System
• Software Logistics: Overview
• Managing Development Projects in the WBO
• Logical and Temporary Designation
• Completing a Project
• Functions of a Change Request
• Sizing Change Requests
• Originals and Copies
• Task Attributes
• Changing Customer Copies
• Changing SAP Copies (Modifications)
• Registering Modifications in SSCR
• Critical Success Factors: Software Logistics (1)
• Summary (1)

Standardization

• Position on the ASAP Roadmap
• Standardization Areas
• Naming Conventions for Repository Objects
• Application Hierarchy and Development Classes
• Interface Style Guide
• Documentation
• Inline Documentation
• Critical Factors for Successful Modification (2)
• Inline Modification Documentation
• Modification Logbook
• Summary
• Standardization: Exercise

Process Design and Technical Design

• Position on the ASAP Roadmap
• Business Blueprint: Process & Technical Design
• Process Design: Contents
• Process Design: Objectives
• Producing the Process Design
• Example: Process Requirement in SD
• Technical Design: Contents
• Technical Design: Objectives
• Producing the Technical Design
• Example: Technical Considerations for SD Order
• Critical Factors for Process & Technical Analysis
• Process Design Review
• Technical Design Review
• Summary
• Process Design and Technical Design: Exercise

Implementation

• Position on the ASAP Roadmap
• Putting the Data Model into Practice
• ABAP Dictionary
• Example SD: Appending to Table VBAK & VBRP
• Critical Success Factors: Data Model/Dictionary
• Putting the Process Model into Practice
• Data Structure (Language and Dictionary)
• ABAP Keywords
• Modularization
• Using ABAP Objects for Customers
• Critical Success Factors: Implementation
• Writing to the Database
• SAP LUW
• Container for a Process Step: Screen
• Example: New Field For Orders, Additional Data B
• Critical Success Factors: Writing to the Database
• Reading and Displaying Data
• Difference between Queries and Programs
• Reading and Displaying VBRP Append
• Critical Success Factors: Reading
• Enjoy Controls
• ABAP and Front End Presentation
• Choosing a Web Programming Model
• Characteristics of Transactions
• Critical Success Factors: Front End Presentation
• Data Transfer
• Communication vs File Transfer & Data Transfer
• Critical Success Factors: Communication
• Data Transfer: Legacy System Migration
• LSM Workbench
• Critical Success Factors: Data Transfer
• Documentation and Translation
• Example: Docu for Data Element ZZADVFLAG
• Translation
• Critical Success Factors: Translation
• Summary: Workbench Tools
• Summary

Quality Assurance

• Position on the ASAP Roadmap
• Program Analysis
• Manual Program Analysis (Source Code Review)
• Program Analysis Using Tools
• Test Organization and Test Workbench
• Roles in Quality Assurance
• Role Representation in the Test Workbench
• Test Organization
• Computer Aided Test Tool (CATT)
• Test Workbench: Status Analysis
• Test Types
• Status Report and Handover
• Status Report (Template)
• Summary

Maintenance

• Development Cycle, Code Freeze, Versions
• Different Releases: First Development Cycle
• Different Releases: Database Copy and Upgrade
• Different Releases: Second Cycle
• Different Releases: Upgrade PRD
• Repository Objects Sensitive to Upgrades
• Avoiding Adjustment
• Monitoring: Technical System Operation
• Monitoring Production: Process Operation
• Critical Success Factors: Production Operation
• Internal Services: Structure
• Summary

Conclusion

• 10 Golden Rules for Development Projects