PPM performance issues
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‎10-03-2016 12:45 PM
Hi All:
I would to pose few questions to the group to see if someone is having poor performance issues within PPM application. In my organization we are using the PPM application out of the box with no custom enhancements. We are experiencing extreme slow response time when the PMs make any changes to their existing plans or to edit any existing tasks.I have been talking to our Sales manager to bring out the PPM product owner to verify if there is something wrong with our instance or is it the way application behaves, which I doubt it.
To give you the few examples here is our current issues which are causing our PMs to not use ServiceNow to manage our projects, because the slowness in the application is taking way too much time.
1. We have a large project with multiple sub projects. When we open the workbench it only opens the top project and doesn't allow to open the subprojects in the workbench.
2. When in Dashboard, when we create a new Task (say T999), and I specify that it should be below a specific Task (say T1). It starts to create the task T9999 under T1. But when it refreshes and done, it pushes T9999 at the bottom of all Tasks.
3. If we try to re position a Task, UP in the planning console , then after sometime, it just pushes the Task again to the bottom
4. We are unable to update the "Dependency" in workbench.See below. I have been told by our internal support team, That this is controlled by servicenow, and we can't control which fields are editable or not
5. The performance to EDIT any Tasks, Dependencies, any data elements, is below acceptable range. At times, it takes us , over 10mins just to enter Two Tasks in the sequence the way we need. The time it takes to clock (/apply business rules), after each update is too much and not acceptable when making the changes on the fly in a meeting with the SMEs.

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‎10-04-2016 08:40 AM
Imran -
I have talked with your account team and experts in your area. You should be contacted in the very near term.
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‎10-04-2016 10:25 AM
Yes I was just contacted by our sales manager, and I'm in a process of scheduling a session to walk through with our challenges.
Thanks for your help

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‎10-04-2016 11:28 AM
Great! You are in good hands.
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‎10-03-2016 06:41 PM
Kelly has good questions as we have experience similar experiences on certain Patches/HotFix in Helsinki. So please share your version. We just upgraded to Patch 5 of Helsinki which if you aren't there you might want to take a look at the release notes to understand if this helps you out. Also another questions is how many tasks do you have in this project that is running below acceptable level? 1000s? Does this happen in all your projects regardless of size or does it differ?
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‎10-04-2016 02:42 PM
Yes we have observed that the slow response time happens in every project regardless how many tasks you have. Based on the Geneva thread notes we are are validating if our installation of PPM is within the best practices or are we missing or wrongly configured roles etc. Once are validation is complete we will take our findings to ServiceNow for a discussion.