PPM performance issues

imranyousufzai
Mega Contributor

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

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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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arun_vydianatha
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

Opening sub-projects in project workbench was not supported till Helsinki, we have added that in Istanbul


Please share the version and also can you check if data is corrupted?



How to check if data is corrupted


In the navigator type in planned_task.list, this would open the list view of planned task


Give query


Top Task is <Your Top Project Id>



See the number of records returned in the list - this should match the number of records you are expecting to see under this project (including tasks, sub-task, sub-projects)



There should be only task which is the Top Project which will have Parent=NULL all others should have parent field populated correctly.



Which schedule are you using?


What is the duration of the project?


Gary Kakazu
Kilo Contributor

We have been having similar performance issues for a while. When we were on Fuji it got a little better when we moved up to patch 12. We are now on Helsinki patch 2, and things have gotten worse again. Our PM's are considering abandoning PPM and go back to Microsoft Project. Our biggest complaint is with #5 in your list (The performance to EDIT any Tasks, Dependencies, any data elements, is below acceptable range). It is very frustrating for PM's to wait after each edit and it really slows them down.


kakazu - Sorry to hear that.


Can you log an incident and pass me the ticket number - I can hop and check what is ailing your system.


We did have some perf issues in earlier patches with large projects - but things have considerably improved from Helsinki Patch 5.



How many tasks/relations does your project have?


I've created INT3050181 for this in HI. I'd love to see if you have any recommendations for improving performance.



Our projects are not huge. From what I could tell, most have under 100 project tasks associated with them.


kakazu I just hopped into cdw instance


I checked logs couldn't find any slow BRs in PPM side



Am I allowed to change data in that instance?


Also can you put some specific reproducible scenarios in the incident record.