Course: 5-Days Inclass & Online Instructor Led
Language: English, Romanian
Price: 350 EUR

Introduction

This five-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to use the Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 enterprise tool to initiate, plan, execute, monitor and control, and close enterprise programs and to customize the enterprise environment.
This is the third course in the Microsoft Office Project 2007 Official Curriculum series and addresses the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution.

Audience

This course is intended for project managers, program managers, members of the project management office, or participants in the deployment of an EPM solution, who are responsible for managing, analyzing, and reporting on projects and programs in the Microsoft Office EPM environment. Further, these individuals are able to refine the Office EPM environment to create solutions to business problems. A solid understanding of key project management concepts and terminology as found in the Project Management Institute (PMI), A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), Third Edition, and The Standard for Program Management is recommended. Additionally, substantial hands-on experience is recommended in Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, Project Server 2007, and Project Web Access prior to attending the course.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Define project, program, and portfolio management and explain their interrelationships in an enterprise environment.
• Describe the architecture and components of the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution and navigate the key interfaces of Office Project 2007, Project Server 2007, and Project Web Access.
• Define a standardized methodology for program governance.
• Propose and apply updates to an enterprise environment.
• Define a program by establishing its characteristics and parameters and delineate program benefits.
• Deliver the detailed plan of a program and optimize the program for time, cost, and resources in order to establish a program baseline.
• Define program resources, and after identifying the critical resources, review and update the program plan and baseline.
• Track the work of the program resources in timesheets and the task progress of the program in Project Web Access and Project 2007.
• Define Earned Value Management (EVM) and perform EVM, including metrics, variances, and performance indexes, in order to create forecasts and make effective adjustments to the program.
• Use Project Center and the Data Analysis (OLAP Cube) feature to view and report the status of a program and to make forecasts.
• Configure project workspaces to meet the needs of a program.
• Describe the closing process for a program and propose changes to the enterprise environment based on the lessons learned through a program life cycle.

Course Outline

CHAPTERS

1. Managing Enterprise Projects, Programs, and Portfolios
2. Working with the Enterprise Project Management Solution 2007
3. Program Management
4. Defining and Creating the Enterprise Environment
5. Setting Up the Program
6. Planning the Program
7. Managing the Resources
8. Tracking Timesheets and Task Progress
9. Performing Earned Value Management
10. Reporting and Analyzing the Program Data
11. Managing Project Workspaces for Programs and the Queue
12. Closing the Program and Refining the Environment

LABS

1. Working with the EPM Solution
2. Proposing Changes to the Enterprise Environment
3. Updating the Definition of a Program in Office Project Server 2007
4. Adding and Deleting a Project and Resetting the Baseline
5. Proposing and Implementing Updates to Improve the Planning Process
6. Updating the Enterprise Resource Pool and Replacing Resources in the Program Plan
7. Proposing Improvements to Timesheet and Task Progress Configurations
8. Reporting Time and Managing Timesheets
9. Reporting and Managing Task Progress
10. Performing Traditional Earned Value Management
11. Performing Earned Value Management
12. Proposing Changes to the Look and Feel of a Program
13. Proposing OLAP Cube Configurations
14. Generating and Modifying Data Analysis Views
15. Planning Configuration Changes to a Workspace
16. Proposing Changes to an EPM Environment
17. Applying Changes to an EPM Environment

What Should You Do

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