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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‎10-05-2016 01:39 PM
Since this is production, you shouldn't change any data there. You can on our dev instance. I'm not sure of the exact scenarios, but I believe it is basic things like adding new project tasks, adjust dates, creating dependencies, etc. I'll check with our PM's for more info.
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‎10-05-2016 09:12 AM
Point 4, this is controlled by a system property 'glide.ui.list_edit'. Although i strongly suggest this property must not be altered.
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‎10-05-2016 09:20 AM
Dependency field is never editable - it is a field of type decoration.
We dynamically show the value in that field in lists if relations exist.
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‎02-10-2017 06:42 AM
We are about to go live in Production with an end-to-end process which includes ppm. We are currently on Helsinki Patch 4 in DEV. We have set up several project templates that will be called from the Demand based on type/sub type conditions. For the most part the creation of the project seems quick. However, I agree that the performance once in PPM is definitely lacking and we are trying to get our PM's to buy into using SN. We do have one project template which is extremely slow and has crashed a couple of times. Full disclosure as this project has 246 lines but a ppm system should be able to handle this. We will be killed if we try to move into PROD with this.

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‎02-10-2017 07:23 AM
Hi Marion,
I have asked your Solution Consultant to reach out to you to see what we can do to help here.