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

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

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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 optimize project resources across the enterprise
  • Collaborate with geographically distributed project team members using Project Web Access
  • Track project progress, monitor project performance and analyze 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, decentralized 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 organization, centralization and consistency for simple to complex projects across the entire project life cycle.

Who Should Attend
Project managers, program 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

Course 924 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)
  • Organizational 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 finalizing 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
  • Optimizing 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
  • Analyzing percent complete versus remaining work
  • Viewing unsubmitted time sheets
  • Automating time sheet approval process
  • Approving administrative time requests
Analyzing and assessing project variance
  • Employing the Variance Table to identify variance
  • Analyzing 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
Finalizing 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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Course Tuition
$ 2,250 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,580 10-Day Pass
$ 1,665 Training Passport
$ 1,830 Flex-Pass
$ 2,095 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,025 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,000 Government Discount
 

 

Microsoft Project Server 2007 for Enterprise Project Management: Hands-On
Microsoft Project Server 2007 for Enterprise Project Management: Hands-On
Participants managing a project plan with Microsoft Project Server 2007


CPE 17 Credits 1 Hour(s) College Credit
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