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Managing Enterprise Projects with Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, Project Web Access and Project Server 2007
Course Benefits:
Project Managers and the PMO (Project Management Office) function are regularly confronted by significant project management challenges such as remote or virtual teams, uncoordinated data and inconsistent practices, conflicting and changeable priorities and deadlines. Keeping track of this welter of information can be a full time job on its own.
Harmonising these disparate components is crucial for project success. In this course, you gain the skills and knowledge to exploit the potential of Microsoft Project Server 2007 to achieve order, co-ordination and consistency for all the projects your organisation undetakes throughout the entire project life cycle.
Initiate new and existing project plans using proposals, activity plans and Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007
Plan, manage and efficiently utilise project resources across the Enterprise
Collaborate with remote and virtual project team members using Project Web Access
Capture and update project progress, monitor project performance and analyse trends of projects in the enterprise
Report key information relating to project, programme and portfolio performance across the Enterprise
Introduce efficient archiving and reporting for all projects, past, present and future
This course has been designed to provide participants with an appreciation of how the Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 and Project Server 2007 EPM solution can support the management of projects from inception to completion.
The training to be delivered will cover elements of the following tools:
Microsoft Office Project Server 2007
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007
Microsoft Office Project Web Access 2007.
This course can be run either using a preconfigured instance of the EPM solution running on Microsoft Virtual PC image provided by Projectability or the customers own instance of Project Server 2007, ideally using a development or test instance rather than the live deployment.
The course is designed to illustrate the full functionality of the solution and as a result attendees will adopt different roles when using Virtual PC. They will see information from the perspective of an Administrator, a high level manager, a project manager and a team member in order to appreciate how differing roles are invested with differing levels of information and functionality within the solution.
The training covers all aspects of the project lifecycle from creating a project plan through to recording progress and analysing aspects of project performance.
On completion of this course participants will be able to exploit the full potential of the Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 EPM solution to plan, manage and report on their projects to the enterprise.
Course Duration:
3 Days:
Course Pricing:
The cost for attending this course is £900.00 per person, we reccomend that at least 2 people from your organisation attend this training. Ask us about discounts for larger groups. Prices exclude VAT at the prevailing rate.
Booking Details:
This course can be delivered either at your offices, a suitable 3rd party venue or our offices in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. The price indicated above is for training delivered at your premises. To book this course contact us on 01753 621200 or ask for information about this course by
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Pre-requisites:
Attendees need some experience in using previous versions of Microsoft Project and should be Project Managers, Resource Managers or Portfolio Managers - users with an interest in more than just managing personal workload and inputs to projects.
If using the Virtual PC image the customer needs to provide computers capable of running Microsoft Virtual PC with a hard disk capacity of at least 30GB and memory of at least 2 Gigabytes in order to cope with the demands of the EPM image. More details with regards to requirements are provided when booking enquiries are made.
Qualifications and Examinations:
This course prepares you to sit the Microsoft Exam 70-633 Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, Managing Projects
Course Content:
The EPM Solution
Overview of the EPM Solution and basic security concepts
Windows Authentication and Forms Authentication
Project Web Access Home Page navigation
Reminders
Project Workspaces
Project Centre
Project Views
Project Professional 2007
Opening and Editing a Project Plan in Project 2007.
Saving data to the Server
Creating a new Template based Project
Enterprise Custom Fields
Saving to the "Draft Database"
Building a Schedule
Summary Tasks
Milestones
Links/Dependencies/Predecessors
Lag & Lead Options
Constraints, Deadlines, Task Calendars
Enterprise Components
Enterprise Global
Enterprise "Assets"
Calendars
Tables
Views
Filters
Grouping Formats
Creating a new Enterprise Calendar
Custom Enterprise Fields
Look Up Tables
Server Queues
Local Project Cache
Force Check in of Enterprise Objects
Resource Centre
Resource Details
Resource Assignments
Resource Availability
Build Team from Enterprise Options
Filtering Resources
Grouping Resources
Implications of the RBS
Querying for Availability
Resource Types
Work Resources
Material Resources
Generic Resources
Cost Resources
Budget Resources
Team Resources
Adding Resources to your Team
Match and Replace Resources
Graph Resources
Resource Planning
Assigning Resources to Tasks
Resource Driven Scheduling
Task Types
Allocating Resources to Tasks
Resource Views and Reports
Publishing Project Plans
The "Published" Database
Workspace Creation
Programmes and Sub-Projects
Master Projects
Project Centre Programme Views
SharePoint Functionality
Document Libraries
Upload single and multiple documents to a SharePoint document library.
Create new documents in a SharePoint document library.
Edit the properties of documents, associate documents with Tasks, Issues or Risks.
Exploit the collaborative features of Office Word & Excel 2007 in a SharePoint site.
Explore Check In/Check Out options for documents.
Initiate document content approval and exploit "Security Trimming" to control access to documents.
Enable Versioning on documents and track document version history.
Subscribe to email alerts and RSS feeds on documents or document libraries.
Explore the potential of "Workflows" for approvals, comments and signatures.
Introduce Content types to support consistent documentation across SharePoint Sites.
SharePoint Lists
Risks
Issues
Deliverables
Alerts
Work with Task Lists in a SharePoint Site.
Subscribe to alerts on Tasks.
Calendar Lists and entries.
Sharing SharePoint Calendars with Outlook 2007.
Creating Recurring Calendar events with associated workspaces.
Work with Risk and Issue Lists in a SharePoint Site.
Subscribe to email alerts and RSS feeds on issues or risk lists.
Navigation within SharePoint
Navigate within a SharePoint workspace using the Quick Launch toolbar, "Bread-crumbing" and other navigation options.
SharePoint Security
Change Security permissions for a site, list or document library.
Understand the concept of "Inheritance" of security permissions in a SharePoint site collection.
Explore and understand security groups and permissions.
Customising Elements of SharePoint
Define Custom Columns for enhanced "Meta-Data" provisioning.
Utilise "site collections" and "site galleries" for columns and content types.
Create custom views for lists and document libraries.
Use filtering and grouping options in a list or document library.
Work with the Datasheet view in a list or document library.
Explore the options to save a SharePoint site as a Template with content.
Modify the look and feel of a SharePoint Site.
Customise a SharePoint site using Themes.
Edit a SharePoint page.
Work with Web Parts and add custom web parts from the Web Parts Gallery.
Create a custom SharePoint list
Save a list as a Template.
Creating SharePoint Sites & Workspaces
Create Sub-workspaces using Templates.
Initiate discussions and surveys.
Explore WIKI's and Blogs for Collaboration.
Create a Document Workspace.
Create a Meeting Workspace.
Use SharePoint Search to locate business critical information on demand.
Search Indexing and Crawling explained.
Provision a Workspace to be a sub-site of a Master Project Workspace.
Personalise a SharePoint page.
Explore the "My Settings" options.
Dashboards and Business Intelligence - concepts
InfoPath forms - concepts
Excel Reporting Services - concepts.
Project Web Access Project Centre
Project Centre Views
Project Views
Proposals
Activity Plans
Resource Plans
Administrative Time
Reporting
Reporting and Analysis
OLAP Cubes
SQL Server Reporting Services
Visual Reports in Project 2007
Updating Actual Progress
Task Updating in Project Web Access
My Tasks
My Timesheets
Recording Actuals
Submitting Timesheets
Self Assign Team Tasks
Timesheet Approval
Import Timesheet to Tasks
Submitting Updates for Approval
Processing updates
Previewing updates to a Project
Project Close and Review
Comparing actuals against the plan
Variance Analysis
Lessons Learned
Course Booking
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