Collaborative decision is paramount in today's fast-paced software delivery environment. With PPM 9.31, you can now integrate the work effort of your Agile Team into timesheets. Through a free adapter available on HP Live Network, you can save your team the hassle of logging time in multiple systems. Now your developers can focus on what they do best, code!

1. HPE Agile Manager and PPM
Plug-in Overview

2. Agenda
• Why ResultsPositive?
• Adapter Overview
• Timesheet Integration Overview
• How Does the Plug-In Work?
• REST API Sequence
• Download and Installation Instructions
• PPM Configuration Instructions
• Importing Agile Manager Effort to PPM Center

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5. Adapter Overview
PPM Center integrates with HP Agile Manager via the Integration Plug-In made available on HPLN:
• Visibility into real-time status and progress of agile development projects from within PPM Center, without
having to login to HP Agile Manager for details.
• A consolidated view of your tasks and agile development initiatives
Additional features of the Plug-In, include:
• Allows Project Managers to map a task under a project to a specific released managed in HP AgM
• Each PPM Center task is associated with a single release in HP AgM throughout the task life
• Project Managers and PMO Directors are able to view real-time agile development related charts for a
release retrieved from HP Agile Manager.
• Project Managers can also view an overall release hierarchy on a specific work package within PPM Center
Project Managers can Monitor Real-Time Agile Charts within PPM

6. Timesheet Integration Overview
• Enables end users to import agile effort from AgM into
their PPM Center timesheets
• Eliminates need to duplicate effort into multiple systems
• Data feeds from HPE Agile Manager to PPM Center
• One timesheet can be mapped to multiple sprints
(releases) in Agile Manager
Via REST APIs, PPM and Agile Manager Communicate in Real-Time to Track Total Effort

7. How Does It Work?
Get
• End user clicks “Add External Data” on their timesheet from PPM ands selects HP Agile Manager from the “Select
an External System” drop-down list.
• PPM calls the HPE Agile Manager REST APIs (see Technical REST API sequence execution)
Compute
• The adapter adds together values from the Invested (h) fields for all returned tasks for each of the releases
• The adapter then imports the total effort of a release as an entry and divides the total effort by the available
working days in the current timesheet period.
Import
• The adapter then fills the average value to each of the working days in the timeline
• See Technical REST APIs in the Appendix for more information on the sequence of “Get” calls to AgM

8. REST API Get Sequence
• Get release list for a specific project from HP Agile Manager
• Get sprint list from available releases, where the sprints shall fall into the user’s current timesheet period
• Get backlog list for qualified sprints
– Sprint start date is the same as or later than the time sheet period start date
– Sprint end date is the same as or earlier than the time sheet period end date
– If the time sheet period contains unqualified sprints, the effort in these unqualified sprints will not be retrieved by the plug-in.
Users will get a warning message when the release contains unqualified sprints.
• Get task list by assign-to value and status value, where assign-to value is the HP Agile Manager user email
address, and the status value is Completed.
• Then the Agile Manager Integration Plug-in for PPM:
– Adds together value for the Invested (h) field for all returned tasks for each of the releases
– Imports the total effort of a release as an entry
– Divides the total effort by available working days in the current timesheet period, and
– Fills the average effort value to each of the working days in the time line
Source: PPM Center v9.31 Release Notes (published by HPE)

9. REST API Get Sequence
Sequence & Description HP Agile Manager REST API Called
1. Get Domain List https://<AgileManager_Server_URL>/qcbin/rest/domains/
2. Get Project List of One Domain https://<AgileManager_Server_URL>/qcbin/rest/domains/<domain_name>/projects/
3. Get release list of one project https://<AgileManager_Server_URL>/qcbin/rest/domains/<domain_name>/projects/<project_name>/releases/
4. Get a specific release https://<AgileManager_Server_URL>/qcbin/rest/domains/<domain_name>/projects/<project_name>/releases?query={id[<release_
id>]}
5. Get sprint list of one release https://<AgileManager_Server_URL>/qcbin/rest/domains/<domain_name>/projects/<project_name>/release-cycles?query={parent-id
[<release_id>]}
6. Get backlog list of sprints https://<AgileManager_Server_URL>/qcbin/rest/domains/<domain_name>/projects/<project_name>/release-backlog-items?query={entity-
type[requirement];sprint-id[<sprint_id1> OR <sprint_id2> OR ...]}
7. Get task list of one backlogs by
assign-to and status
https://<AgileManager_Server_URL>/qcbin/rest/domains/<domain_name>/projects/<project_name>/project-tasks?query={releasebacklog-
item-id[<backlog_id1> OR <backlog_id2> OR…];assigned-to[<agile_user_mail_address>];status[Completed]}

10. Download & Installation Instructions
Steps Description
Step 1 Obtain the plug-in bundles from the HP Live Network
Step 2 On the PPM Community home page, click Content Catalog
Step 3 Click Agile Manager Integration Plug-in for PPM
Step 4 Click Downloads - Click the HP Agile Manager Connector for PPM v9.31
Step 5 Click ppm-931-AgileManagerConnector.zip to download the file
Step 6 Unzip the file to obtain the ppm-931-Connector-AGM.jar file
Step 7 Stop the PPM Server
Step 8 Unzip the package and copy the two bundles to the <PPM_Home> directory
Step 9 Deploy the bundles by running the following commands from the <PPM_Home>/bin directory: sh . /kDeploy .sh -i Connector –AGM
Step 10 Repeat steps #8 and #9 for each of the server nodes in a cluster
Step 11 Restart the PPM Server

11. New Entities in PPM v9.31
• New timesheet type of External Data is now visible
in the HPE PPM Time Management Module
• You can enable or disable the external data items, or
make activities specific to external data items only
from HP Agile Manager (example below)
Source: PPM Center v9.31 Release Notes (published by HPE)

12. PPM Configuration Instructions
Steps Description
Step 1 Logon to PPM Center as the administrator
Step 2 Launch the Administration Console and c heck that the ENABLE_TM_WORK_ITEM_EXTERNAL_DATA server configuration parameter is set to true
Step 3 In the PPM Workbench, enable the External Data option on the Work Items tab of the desired time sheet policy.
Step 4 From the menu bar, select Open > Administration > Open Workbench (or Open Workbench on Desktop)
Step 5 From the shortcut bar, select Time Mgmt > Timesheet Policies
Step 6 Click List
Step 7 From the Results Tab, select and open the desired timesheet policy
Step 8 Click the Work Items tab.
Step 9 Select the checkbox for the External Data option
Step 10 Click OK

13. Importing Agile Effort to PPM Center
Steps Description
Step 1 Logon to PPM Center
Step 2 From the menu bar, select Create > Timesheet.
Step 3 Select Time Period , Resource, Description, and Included Items from My Items List
Step 4 Click Create (the timesheet is created and the Edit Time Sheet page appears)
Step 5 Click Add Items and then select Add External Data from the available actions (the Import External Data window appears)
Step 6 From the Select Instance drop-down list, select an instance, with the Agile Manager icon in front of the instance name
Step 7 Click Next
Step 8 Enter the Username and Password that you use to logon to HP Agile Manager, click Next
Step 9 Allow PPM Center to retrieve and load effort data from the available releases in HP Agile Manager
Step 10 Click Submit (the AgM efforts are imported and distributed to each of the working days of the timesheet – displayed in the External Data section)

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