Course Overview
Managing Enterprise Projects using Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 takes your Microsoft Project competency to the Enterprise level. The field of Enterprise Project Management (aka EPM) presents many new challenges, even for the experienced user of Microsoft Project. In this course, you learn through hands-on exercises how to use Project Server 2007 in a step by step process to manage enterprise projects effectively. Focusing on how to use Microsoft Project Professional 2007 and Project Web Access for project tracking and team collaboration, you learn everything from the basics of EPM tracking methods to the subtleties of mining information in the system.
Target Audience
Managing Enterprise Projects using Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 is the premier methodology-agnostic course for everyone who serves as a project manager, portfolio manager, or scheduler in an enterprise project management environment using the Microsoft EPM platform. This course is “must have” training for application administrators who support business users and maintain the Project Server application configuration. This course is highly recommended for technical administrators who support EPM platforms to provide for better end-user understanding and communication.
Pre-Requisites
Those serious about developing an expert-level competency for managing enterprise projects with the Microsoft EPM tool set should first complete the Establishing a Project Management Foundation using Microsoft Office Project 2007 course. For students with significant experience using Microsoft Project and substantial scheduling and tracking mastery, the pre-requisite course provides a great skills refresher, but you may treat this as optional.
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
· Describe the project communication life cycle used with Project Server
· Understand and use the Project Web Access user interface
· Create a Project Server login account in Project Professional 2007
· Create and save a Proposal and an Activity Plan
· Create and save an enterprise project, and work with Offline projects
· Import a local project into the Project Server database
· Add resources to a project team, assign resources to tasks, and level overallocated
resources
· Analyze the Critical Path and Task Drivers in a project
· Publish an enterprise project
· Create Deliverables associated with a project
· Enter and approve both Timesheet information and task updates
· Use Outlook to track task progress
· Analyze project variance, make plan revisions, and rebaseline a project
· Set up e-mail Notifications and Reminders from Project Server
· Use the Project Workspace to manage Risks, Issues, Documents, and Deliverables
associated with a project
· Use advanced features of the Project Workspace
· Create and manage Status Reports
· Access resource information and project portfolio information through Project Web Access
· Analyze project portfolio information using Data Analysis views
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