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We Can Help with Installing Microsoft Project
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We offer assistance with the installation, planning,
implementation, and
successful use of MS Project Server. We are available to assist and
augment your imple mentation team, or to perform the
entire implementation. Please
contact us and
we will address your specific requirements.
Note: Installing MS Project Server
is not easy to do correctly. Our enterprise
project management specialists can come to your
location to do the installation or they can work
with you remotely to perform an installation.
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Things to consider when installing
Microsoft Project Server and beginning the process of
performing a Project Server configuration |
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Overview Microsoft's EPM System
(MS Project Server and MS Project Professional). Understand the software and hardware requirements
and how Microsoft Office Project Server can grow.
EPM Guides
Introduction to
EPM 2003,
Getting Started with Project 2003
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Conduct interviews. Determine how your organization
currently uses Microsoft Project and the skill levels
of users.
Use Microsoft's EIF (Enterprise Implementation
Framework) questionnaire to determine your
organization's current abilities and skill level
with Microsoft Project.
Starting off with an assessment is always a good
idea.
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You may want to consider using an enhanced
questionnaire; our PMSIP (Project Management
System Implementation Process). The PMSIP
questionnaire extends the EIF with over 200
additional questions.
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You may want to consider using our
Enterprise Web
Questionnaire to automate collection
and analysis of the interview information.
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Establish Organizational Standards. The interviews
will provide information to make decisions regarding
changing or implementing your organization's
standards. Your organization's standards directly
influences your MS Project Server configuration.
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Use code structures for projects, tasks and resources.
Coding structures provide the foundation for
analysis across task, project and resource
information. Consider the difference between codes
and user defined fields and their effective use.
Microsoft Project Server 2003 Configuration
Guidelines
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Enforce standards across your project plans. Use the
Enterprise Project Global template to enforce standards
across your enterprise project plans.
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Enforce standards across your resource pool. If
resource information is maintained in a different
system, consider integrating MS Office Project Server
with the
respective system. Use code structures to define
resource attributes and when using resource user
defined fields, design it with a list selection,
versus free form text entry.
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Determine Enterprise Project Template definition and
use. Use Enterprise Project Templates to guide users
in project creation and planning. Ensure generic resources are
defined and assigned to tasks in the Enterprise
Project template. Provide all information regarding
static elements of your projects. When implemented
properly, Enterprise Project Templates can enable a
quick initial assessment of project schedule and
budget, which then facilitates enhanced 'what-if'
planning
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Create your enterprise resource pool. Resolve
naming issues across project plans.
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Generic Resources. Generic resource skill sets
should match human and/or material resource
skill sets.
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Human Resources. Your ability to search and find
individuals with the right attributes to perform work
will depend on how you establish your resource
code structures and your skill sets.
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Material Resources. If you are going to do real
project costing, you will likely need to define
material resources.
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Import historical data. Be careful to ensure
consistency in the resources and tasks across the
project plans being imported to enable immediate
reporting across your portfolio of historical
projects.
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Use
the Portfolio Modeling tool. The
Portfolio Modeler is a perfect tool to evaluate
resource assignments across one or more projects and
recommend re-assignment based on the following:
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Use
the Portfolio Analyzer. Your coding
structures for projects and resources will determine
the reporting effectiveness of the Portfolio
Analyzer. Evaluate your organizational reporting
requirements and structure to help determine
Portfolio Analyzer views that facilitate corporate
initiatives
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Manage the administration and maintenance of project forms,
resource skill sets, security, and other maintenance
requirements. Consider the options in the role-based
security model and outline the desired
functionality. Don't accept the defaults,
investigate the security access you are providing.
Determine who will act as administrators and what
areas they will administer, i.e. Resource Skill
Sets.
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Archive Project Information. How will your firm
archive and access project data. Use of the version
functionality in MS Office Project Server, data warehousing,
and backup/restore features are all vehicles to
consider when determining archival methods for project
information.
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Implement across two servers (at a minimum).
While MS Project Server and all components will run on
one server, we strongly suggest a minimum of two
servers for excellent performance.
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Establish alert notification vehicles, i.e.
email, Project Web Views with graphical indicators,
dashboards, etc. Provide alert notifications based
on project and resource attributes, i.e. overallocation of resources, cost overruns, project
slippage. Prove the tools to drill-down to analyze
the details.
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Role-based training. Users must be trained or the
system will not be effective. Role-based training is
our recommended solution. We provide the level of
training that ensures each "user" understands
exactly what their "role" is in the Enterprise
Project Management Environment. This includes
process, procedure and "tool" training. Don't
implement MS Project Server without having a valid and
realistic training program defined and ready to go.
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Support (on-site, phone, remote administration)
your users.
Your users will need support. Count on it. Questions
will come up. Our solution is on-site, phone, and
remote support. You focus on your core business and
we save you money by having a staff of experts
available to help you when you need it.
Our EPM Support Information
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EPM Solutions & MS Project Server Solutions.
Carefully evaluate all MS Project Server
consulting services, enterprise project
management specialists, products, and add-ins.
Microsoft boasts of more than 2000 partners that
provide EPM Solutions. Experts with the
system would provide a very short list of
individuals, companies that can support the claim of
"MS Project Experts." Time and money spent initially
finding the right support, solutions, and MS
Project Server consulting will pay off
handsomely during the final phases of deployment.
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