1. The Process Paradigm
A Project Management Use Case

2. Process as a Differentiator
People
The Common Pillars of a Strategy
follow
PROCESS enforced by
Technology

3. Process as a Differentiator
Two organizations can have the same
People
Technology
But one can outperform the other on account
of Different Processes
Well-defined, automated business processes allow you to bring
products to market sooner (“shorter time to market”). Lower costs
due to increased efficiencies make your company more
competitive.

4. Project Management
Project management, then, is the application of knowledge, skills and
techniques to execute projects effectively and efficiently. It’s a strategic
competency for organizations, enabling them to tie project results to
business goals — and thus, better compete in their markets.
A project is temporary in that it has a
defined beginning and end in time, and
therefore defined scope and resources.
And a project is unique in that it is not a
routine operation, but a specific set of
operations designed to accomplish a
singular goal. So a project team often
includes people who don’t usually work
together – sometimes from different
organizations and across multiple
geographies.

5. Why is it Important ?

6. Why is it Important
Project management requires the ordering of
tasks
These can be organized into processes
These processes can be repeatable thus
forming a discipline – Project Management

7. But isn’t this a SPUG meeting ?
Workflow is sometimes described as a series of tasks that
produce an outcome.
Workflows help people to collaborate on documents and to
manage project tasks by implementing business processes on
documents and items in a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server
2007 site.
Workflows help organizations to adhere to consistent business
processes, and they also improve organizational efficiency
and productivity by managing the tasks and steps involved in
business processes. This enables the people who perform these
tasks to concentrate on performing the work rather than
managing the workflow.
Obtained from Microsoft

8. SharePoint Can be Used for Project
Management
But why stop at project management ?
With an understanding of business
process management one can use
SharePoint to give organizations the
competitive advantage

9. Who Am I
I go by the name Richard Magu and I tweet
as @richardmagu and @ukofreshlakini
I am crazy about Business Intelligence and
intrigued by Enterprise Architecture.
I am no guru on SharePoint but its
possibilities drive me nuts.