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Microsoft Project Server 2007 for Enterprise Project Management: Hands-On

 
Course: 924   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Build an Enterprise Project Management Solution with Microsoft Project Server 2007
  • Create new and existing project plans using proposals, activity plans and Microsoft Project Professional
  • Plan, manage and optimise project resources across the enterprise
  • Collaborate with geographically distributed project team members using Project Web Access
  • Track project progress, monitor project performance and analyse trends of projects in the enterprise
  • Establish a historical archive for future projects

Course Benefits

Project leaders face critical project management challenges including geographically dispersed teams, decentralised information and diverse practices. Coordinating these distinct elements is key for project success. In this course, you gain the skills and knowledge to leverage Project Server 2007 to achieve organisation, centralisation and consistency for simple to complex projects across the entire project life cycle.

Who Should Attend

Project managers, programme managers and team members who create, plan and monitor projects. Participants should understand project management concepts. Experience with Microsoft Project at the level of Course 299, "Microsoft Project Comprehensive Introduction", is helpful but not required.

Hands-On Training

Exercises, performed on Microsoft Project Server and Project Professional, reinforce the concepts and skills you are learning, including:
  • Creating, tracking and updating multiple project plans with Microsoft EPMS
  • Working with project proposals and activity plans
  • Migrating project plans from Project Professional 2007
  • Implementing enterprise custom fields, outline codes, calendars and resources for use across all projects
  • Connecting Project Professional, Project Server and Outlook
  • Populating the Enterprise Resource Pool and resourcing tasks

Related Courses

  • 299 Microsoft Project Comprehensive Introduction
  • 296 Project Management: Skills for Success
  • 340 Project Management for Software Development
  • 921 Recovering Troubled Projects
  • 287 Strategic Project Management
  • 286 Project Risk Management
  • 538 SharePoint Technologies Comprehensive Introduction
  • 346 Project Team Leadership
  • 294 Influence Skills
  • 315 Developing User Requirements

 
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Upcoming Dates

7 - 9 Apr, 2009
London
8 - 10 Jul, 2009
London
21 - 23 Oct, 2009
London

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Microsoft Project Server 2007 for Enterprise Project Management: Hands-On

 
Course: 924   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course Content
 

Microsoft Project Server 2007 Overview

  • Introduction to Microsoft Enterprise Project Management Solution (EPMS)
  • Project Server concepts and terminologies
  • The benefits of Project Web Access (PWA)
  • Organisational roles in a Project Server operation
  • Relationship of Project Server to SharePoint

Initiating Enterprise Projects

Building consistency across the enterprise

  • Establishing a Project Server account
  • Employing the Enterprise Global Template
  • Configuring Enterprise Calendars
  • Creating enterprise outline codes and custom fields

Gathering and assigning project resources

  • Identifying generic and material resources
  • Creating the Resource Breakdown Structure (RBS)
  • Populating the Enterprise Resource Pool
  • Configuring resource calendars

Planning the Project Schedule

Publishing projects to the server

  • Starting projects with proposals and activity plans
  • Importing project plans to Project Server
  • Saving an offline project back to Project Server
  • Importing local project plans and working offline

Preparing for schedule definition

  • Employing Enterprise Templates
  • Defining new enterprise projects in steps
  • Building a project schedule with best practices

Implementing schedule definition

  • Performing activity definition and detail
  • Sequencing the work and network diagramming
  • Determining resource duration estimation
  • Formulating activity estimation and duration

Executing the Project Plan

Collaborating with the project team

  • Refining and finalising project plans
  • Baselining the enterprise project plan
  • Managing projects offline
  • Publishing project information and task assignments
  • Sending alerts for tasks and status reports

Managing Project Web Access (PWA)

  • Configuring Project Server users
  • Applying PWA to collaborate with resources
  • Implementing user interface
  • Executing related tasks

Monitoring project tasks

  • Tracking project progress
  • Assigning tasks with PWA
  • Optimising task delegation
  • Reporting task status with PWA

Managing schedule control

  • Interfacing with Microsoft Outlook
  • Accepting and rejecting updates
  • Creating and publishing status reports
  • Responding to status requests

Monitoring and Controlling Project Work

Tracking project tasks

  • Approving time and task progress
  • Analysing percent complete versus remaining work
  • Viewing unsubmitted time sheets
  • Automating time sheet approval process
  • Approving administrative time requests

Analysing and assessing project variance

  • Employing the Variance Table to identify variance
  • Analysing date variance to calculate slippage
  • Forecasting and revising work using the Tracking Gantt

Implementing change processes

  • Applying change control to adjust project scope
  • Revising project plan after approved changes
  • Rebaselining to calculate new start and end dates
  • Managing issues, risks and documents

Completing Projects and Documenting Work

Finalising project schedules

  • Archiving project information
  • Backing up your projects for future use
  • Removing resources from the resource pool

Leveraging project history

  • Creating templates for future use
  • Employing Project Server historical data for future planning
  • Closing out documents
 
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Microsoft Project Server 2007 for Enterprise Project Management: Hands-On Tuition

 
Course: 924   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

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