EPM Demos and Labs

Important announcement from Dominic Moss; Director of Projectability: Click Here to Read     

Project & Portfolio Management
Project and Portfolio Management helps organisations achieve visibility and control across all project initiatives, improving the ability to make timely decisions, promoting alignment with business strategy, supporting compliance with governance standards, enhancing resource utilisation and improving project execution to optimise ROI.

Take the opportunity to view this demonstration to understand how the EPM Solution helps organisations to:

 
  • Capture all project requests
  • Develop rigorous businesses cases
  • Prioritise and approve project portfolios that are aligned with strategic priorities
  • Maximize resource utilisation
  • Deliver projects on time and within budget
  • Enhance visibility and control with powerful and dynamic real time reporting

Innovation Process Management
In a global economy whose pace is forever accelerating, being first to market is often the way to the next big breakthrough in products, services, and processes. Businesses however are often challenged with embracing innovation due to governance, technical and other procedural obstacles. The Microsoft Innovation Process Management (IPM) Solution is built on the Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007, and the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution, enabling organisations to:

 
  • Capture suggestions from anyone within the organisation
  • Produce business cases for each idea
  • Acquire communal input and priorities
  • Perform portfolio analytics to identify and select the best ideas
  • Successfully deliver the selected project

Capital Planning & Investment Control (CPIC) for Government
For many government agencies, gathering accurate investment data is often an arduous and unsuccessful process. Agency data is often contained within several siloed and poorly integrated systems. Although many commercial project and portfolio data tools are available to government agencies, these tools often do not meet government agencies’ unique needs, leading government executives to purchase additional tools to complete their planning and investment responsibilities.

The CPIC solution, built on the Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007, and the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution, provides government executives with powerful collaboration and analytical tools designed to:

 
  • Provide visibility and control throughout a project’s lifecycle
  • Standardize the collection of investment requests
  • Enhance the portfolio selection process
  • Meet the OMB 300 requirements
  • Improve project execution and return on investment
  • Evaluate and measure investments effectiveness

Connecting Project Portfolio Management (PPM) & Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
Integrating Application Development and Project & Portfolio Management improves visibility and control throughout a projects lifecycle. It ensures project managers and developers can follow their own methodologies supported by different productivity tools, while remaining seamlessly connected with each other.

Integrating Microsoft’s EPM Solution with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server helps to ensure:

 
  • Executives can make informed decisions about their portfolio
  • PMO can better plan and utilize resources
  • Project managers can more easily manage and track work
  • Developers and testers can focus on releasing a high quality product without being over burdened with administrative tasks