Transport Forms, Business Tasks and Projects

ActiveControl has a 3-level hierarchy, consisting of Transport Forms, Business Tasks and Projects.

Transport Forms
Before an SAP transport request can be deployed using ActiveControl, a Transport Form must be created for the transport request. The Transport Form is a simple screen that can typically be completed in 10-15 seconds. It is used to document and categorise the changes made, and can also be used to drive the workflow process within ActiveControl. By looking at a Transport Form, any Approver, Tester, Auditor or other stakeholder should be able to immediately understand what that particular Transport is for.

Business Tasks
The Transport Form can be used to associate the technically-oriented transport request with the corresponding business issue and/or requirement to which it relates. Within ActiveControl, this is referred to as a Business Task. Although it can be an optional association, it is strongly recommended that all Transport Forms be associated with Business Tasks, as this:

• Groups together technically separate but functionally-related transport requests that collectively implement the changes necessary to solve / deliver individual business issues and requirements.
• Allows for the progress and testing of the solution to a business issue or requirement throughout the system landscape to be monitored and reconciled as the solution makes its way through one or more development streams (such as in the case of branched development systems).
• Provides the business context for business users and team leaders involved in the change process (for example, from an approval perspective).

Projects

ActiveControl Projects are used to define a logical grouping of Business Tasks. Projects are typically used within most customers for grouping Business Tasks and Transport Forms into Releases, Upgrade Projects, SAP Projects etc. ActiveControl Projects are completely seperate and unrelated to SAP CTS Projects.

Figure: The ActiveControl 3-level hierarchy: Projects, Business Tasks and Transport Forms