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 Introduction to cProjects

● What is cProjects?
●cProjects (Collaboration Projects) is the SAP web-
based application for project planning, scheduling,
resources management and costing across internal
and external partners.

●cProjects was designed for organizations that need

to manage multi-phase projects with high quality
control can benefit from cProjects. cProjects
supports flexible project management and team
collaboration.

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 Advantages of cProjects

● cProjects provides
●Project structuring capabilities (project definition,
phases, checklists and tasks).
●Predefined templates, project versioning.
●Document Management (cFolders)
●Roles-based Resource management.
●Flexible authorization control .
●Scheduling functionalities.
●Broad project management and monitoring features.

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 Basic Structure of cProjects

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 Basic Structure of cProjects – contd …

● Project definition
● Phases
● Checklists
● Checklist Items
● Tasks
● Subtasks
● Milestone
● Documents
● Templates

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 Basic Structure of cProjects – contd …

● Project definition
● The project element at the highest hierarchy level of a project is
defined as a project definition. It contains general information on the
project and information that applies to the entire project. Creating a
project definition is the first step for creating a project. In cProjects,
there is no project without a project definition.
● Phases
● Phases are on the second hierarchy level of a project in cProjects.
Phases are sections of a project that are completed within a certain
time. They are thus used for structuring the project from a time
aspect. Implementing a phase begins with its .release.
● Checklists
● Checklists are lists of items that must be completed. They ensure that
all important aspects of a project or a phase are taken into account.
Therefore, checklists are usually assigned to phases and are usually in
the third hierarchy level of a project. You can assign several checklists
to a phase

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 Basic Structure of cProjects – contd …

● Checklist Items
● Checklist items are the items in a checklist. Checklist items are
important requirements that have to be met in order to achieve the
project goal. People involved in the project check them off as soon as
they have been completed. Checklist items are usually assigned at the
fourth hierarchy level of a project.
● Tasks
● Tasks are used to enter and structure the required processing steps
when a project is being implemented. They are either assigned to
phases and checklist items, or to the project definition. In the
navigation area, tasks are displayed as a circle.
● Subtasks
● Subtasks can be used just like tasks to enter and structure required
processing steps when you are implementing a project. However,
subtasks are subordinates of a task. Work that is planned in the
subtask is additive to the work of the superior task.

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 Basic Structure of cProjects – contd …

● Milestone
You can mark the tasks or subtask as milestone.

● Documents
● You can assign documents to any project element. Each project
element has its own Documents. tab page. It enables you to assign
documents at every level of the project and to assign certain
authorizations for these.

● Templates
● We can create templates that you can keep reusing when you create
operational projects. This enables you to standardize you projects
more. Templates make it easier to create operational structures and
reduce errors when you are maintaining structures.

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 Master data and templates

● Master Data for the project

●Project definition
●Phase
●Checklist
●Checklist item
●Task
●Subtask
●Project role

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 Configuring Project Structures

● Configuring Project Structures

● Project Type
● Phase Type
● Checklist Type
● Task Type

● Other master data for evaluations

● Priority
● Project reason
● Process

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 Project Type
The project type is the central profile for controlling projects.

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 Project Type contd..

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 Phase Type

The phase type is a profile in Customizing that describes the approval process
of a phase and the affects on other phases.

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 Checklist Type
● The checklist type is primarily used to group together checklists of
the same type. The checklist contains the indicator Issue List

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 ● Task Type
● Priority
● Project reason
● Process
The above are the master data is used for information
purposes but it does not control anything.

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 Scheduling

● Bottom Up
● The dates are passed on from the bottom of the hierarchy to the top
● The dates are summarized from the lower Task elements to the
higher-level Task/Phase elements
● If the dates are beyond the original dates, the dates of the higher-
level Task elements are adjusted here, in other words extended.

● Top-Down
● The dates for scheduling are passed down from the project definition,
to the Phase elements, and to the Tasks.
● The dates of the Tasks must be within the dates of the superior Tasks.
● All the dates in the project must within the period formed by the
basic dates of the project definition.

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 Dependency types

● Finish-start (FS) relationship

● Start-start (SS) relationship
● Finish-finish (FF) relationship
● Start-finish (SF) relationship

● Lag time : This is a delay between two tasks that are linked by a
dependency.

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 Venugopal.R
Venugopal_r@mindtree.com
+91 67067056
www.mindtree.com

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