Enterprise project management (EPM) provides an end-to-end collaborative solution for project and resource management across an organization. It includes a central repository to consistently manage and report on all work. EPM enables organizations to gain visibility, insight, and control over their project portfolio to enhance decision making and ensure initiatives align with strategic objectives. It allows for participation from all stakeholders including executives, project managers, team members, and resource managers. EPM solutions in Microsoft Project Server 2007 provide planning and tracking, team member progress reporting, resource management, and collaboration and communication tools.

1. Enterprise Project Management using Microsoft Project Server 2007 Avalon Training Group

2. What is Enterprise Project Management (EPM)? Work management solution that includes full enterprise portfolio of projects. An end-to-end collaborative project management and resource management to help organizations gain visibility, insight, and control to enhance decision making. A central repository of projects and resource information to consistently manage and report on all work across the enterprise

3. Successful Change Management EPM enables the opportunity for generating the change needed to keep your people, processes and initiatives current People Technology Strategy EPM Process Leveraging technology Empowering people Gaining Insight & Control Streamlining processes Establish best practices

4. Participation Across the Organization… Insight and Reporting Exec Stakeholders Project Managers Intuitive project management Team Members A clear understanding of ownership Resource Managers What resources are available IT Open, secure systems

5. Project Server 2007 Environment

6. EPM Solution: Project Management Gain visibility, insight, & control of your project portfolio Ensure initiatives align with your strategic objectives Realize participation from all project stakeholders

7. Planning & Tracking with Microsoft Project Professional 2007 Create project plans based work required, resources available & budget constraints Enable team members to help keep project plans up to date Easily identify variations in actual performance from original estimates Proactively address problem areas & resource conflicts to keep projects on track

8. Team Member Progress Reporting using Project Web Access Manage and report progress Stay informed about new tasks, upcoming deadlines, changes to documents Easily to transfer and present project data in Word, Outlook & Excel

9. Centrally store & standardize resource information Manage resource utilization for optimal allocation and forecasting EPM Solution: Resource Management

10. What Is Resource Management? Aligns people with business goals by allocating resources to your highest priority initiatives Optimizes resource utilization and provides forecasts to skill requirements Availability Location Skills

11. View resource workload by Project for for Capacity Planning Evaluate resource utilization trends to determine staffing requirements Forecast future resource requirements based on historical utilization

12. View assignments by Resource

13. EPM Solution: Collaboration & Communication Collaboration : centralized access to project information and resources Communication : ability to continuously and quickly interact with team members to successfully execute projects

14. Collaboration & Communication Knowledge Hub Team Members Executives Partners Customers Project Managers Resource Managers

15. Increase visibility of Overall Project Status

16. Enable Stakeholders to drill down to Project Details Project Detail Project Summary

17. Improve Accountability & Resolution of Issues Centrally store, assign & escalate issues Recognize problem areas early & resolve issues before they jeopardize the success of projects Increase team members’ ownership and accountability of this process

18. Improve Tracking of Project Risks Centrally store and track the status of risks Link to key tasks that could trigger risks Identify and link to tasks in plan to mitigate risk Identify and link to contingency tasks

19. Increase visibility of Deliverables and Cross Project Dependencies Select key tasks in plan and mark deliverables to increase visibility Add additional deliverables not found in the plan Set cross project dependencies on deliverables

20. EPM Solution: Portfolio Management The ongoing process of identifying, prioritizing, and investing in projects that align with your corporate strategy Continual flow of information provides insight into project performance and supports strategic decision making

21. Monitor Performance through Roll-Up Reports Gain a consolidated view of your business Increase visibility with key performance indicators Establish consistent metrics and thresholds for evaluating project performance

22. EPM Critical Success Factors Clearly defined organizational objectives (phased) Clearly defined business processes mapped to EPM solution Custom configuration of Project Server Custom training for user roles Deployment to test or pilot group Trained support staff on EPM Administration