THR006 TechEd 2010 - Leveraging SharePoint 2010 for Project Management

Alexander Burton
Project MVP
@alexanderb
www.epmsource.com
Leveraging SharePoint 2010 for Project Management
SESSION CODE: THR006

What is project management?
Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements.
Project management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements.
Source: PMI PMBOK, 3rd Edition
Communication
Process
Planning

Communication
Clear communication across the project team is essential
How SharePoint 2010 can help….
Team sites
Create a single location to store all project artifacts and information
Wiki’s
Create a powerful web of information quickly and simply to store relevant project information
Office Web Applications
Quick and effective collaboration from anywhere
Common Problems
Team members don’t know what to do
Information silo’s start to form
Lack of knowledge sharing

Process
Projects typically follow a process, built on best practice and past learning’s to ensure project success.
Common Problems
Process is not being followed
Process is too complicated
Process cannot be easily accessed
Workflow
Use automated workflow to enforce organisational process
Data Visualisation
Visualise complex processes using interactive tools such as Visio Services
Mobile
Allow access to the process information at all times.

Planning
Ensuring the team are aware of what they need to do and to track their progress
Common Problems
Ensuring the team know what to do and when
Ensuring the team has visibility of the project progress
Inability to track and monitor project progress
Access Services
Leverage the out of the box project tracking database
Project Task Lists
Publish a high level project schedule for team visibility
Project Professional 2010 Sync to SharePoint
Synchronise Project 2010 schedules with SharePoint 2010 to provide team visibility of tasks & status and to collect updated status information.

Reporting
Provide advanced reporting for your team and management
Common Problems
Inability to report on the project quickly & effectively
Publishing reporting data effectively
Leveraging other project assets within SharePoint
Graph Web Part
Integrated graphing component within SharePoint 2010
Visio Services
Use data bound diagrams to visualise information in the most effective way
Representational State Transfer (REST)
Leverage REST technology to embed live SharePoint data within your documents.

Resource Management
Central pool of resources that can be shared across all projects in the organisation
Portfolio Selection
Capture all work requests, assess against business drivers and priorities, analyse and select which projects to execute
Demand Management
Powerful workflow and forms based processing to allow your governance process to be enforced
Business Intelligence and Reporting
Integrated Business Intelligence reporting leveraging all of the reporting power of SharePoint 2010
ScheduleManagement
Centralisedrepository of all project schedules within your organisation
Project Team Collaboration
Integrated collaboration sites linked to each schedule to enhance project communication

Related Content
OFS306 - Friday 27th
Project Server 2010 - The Upgrade Path - Why, When & How
Project 2010 and Project Server 2010http://www.microsoft.com/project/en/us/default.aspx
SharePoint 2010http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/Pages/default.aspx
EPMSource – All things Microsoft Enterprise Project Managementhttp://epmsource.com/

*Courtesy of MSDN

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