Microsoft Project Server is a flexible on-premises solution for project portfolio and Enterprise Planning. It helps in everyday project management. Project Server allows everyone to get started quickly, prioritize projects and resources, and work from virtually anywhere.
Project Portfolio and Enterprise Planning
Training Title: Project Portfolio & Enterprise Planning - 3 days
Objective
Topics Covered
Key takeaways
Target Audience
Objective
Microsoft Project Server is a complete project management information system to manage your project portfolio. It enables to prioritize, resourcing, scheduling and communications/reporting. It helps to prevent, identify and mitigate potential business-related or project-related risks and issues. It helps to adopt financial management processes and effectively track cost performance and ensure on budget delivery with the forecasted benefits.
Benefits:
- Delight Customer through Consistent Delivery
- Deliver Quality through effective Customer Collaboration
- Timely Allocation of Work to Suppliers /Vendors and Teams
- Optimize Project Costs through Proactive Risk Management
- Execute Complex Projects as per scope, time and cost
- Improved Project Success
- Manage Changes across Projects, Programs and Portfolios
- Optimize Project Profitability through optimal Resource Usage
Topics Covered
The topics covered under this training / workshop are
- Introduction to Project Management
- Project Life Cycle
- 10 Aspects of Project Management
- Basics of Scope, Schedule & Cost Management
- Create projects and programs
- Define strategy
- Optimize portfolios
- Create a new enterprise project
- Create programs
- Plan projects and programs
- Define deliverables
- Create tasks and a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
- Schedule the project
- Manage resources and teams
- Perform resource engagement
- Build a project team
- Resolve resource over allocations across projects
- Build a financial plan
- Track projects and programs
- Baseline enterprise projects
- Select tracking method
- Manage task assignments
- Update tasks and time sheets
- Approve tasks and time sheets
- Update the project plan
- Collaborate and communicate projects and programs
- Control, report, manage, and extend the PPM solution
- Customize Project Web App views and reports
- Advanced Reporting
Key takeaways
Key takeaways from this training / workshop are
- Act as a SPOC to access information by stakeholders
- Ability to manage your Enterprise Portfolio & Improve Operational Efficiency
- Increase Success rate of Projects under the Portfolio
- Learn to customize the project web application views
- Enables the usage of Project Management Information System (PMIS)
- Advanced reporting ways
- Hands-on / practical with Project Server
- Training by Project Management Expert with strong technology background
- Day to day life, Simple examples to understand/apply the concepts
Target Audience
The target audience for this training / workshop includes:
- PMOs
- Project Managers
- Delivery Manager
- Functional Managers
- Product Managers
- Line Managers
- Business Analyst
- Program Managers
- Operations Managers
- Portfolio Managers
- Directors / C-Suite
- Project Team members