| BPIO University: Enterprise Project Management Capability |
Every business is challenged to manage and align enterprise projects and resources in a way that enhances operational efficiency and organizational planning. Managers need to regularly allocate and balance resources across multiple projects and departments, while they ensure regulatory compliance and effectively measure and track project success. Teams increasingly need to assign, track, report, and collaborate across boundaries. Enterprise project management (EPM) from Microsoft can be a key component of your customers’ infrastructures and can help them overcome these challenges. Explore these training resources to discover how you can tap the EPM market to generate growth and nurture customer relationships.
Listen to a short audio file highlighting EPM challenges, the Microsoft solution, and your market opportunity.
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| The Gantt Chart: Still Vital after 100+ Years: Using the Gantt Chart to Optimize a Schedule Model |
Recording: PMI COS Webinar - The Gantt Chart: Still Vital after 100+ Years: Using the Gantt Chart to Optimize a Schedule Model
For those of you who were unable to attend the “Scheduling with the Masters series” webinar yesterday, with Gary Chefetz, here is the URL to the recording: http://pmi.acrobat.com/p76846544/.
Note: each webinar has its own Program Number, as each event is registered with PMI as a Category 3 REP course. This webinar is worth 1 PDU. The Program number for the event below is: WS120508GC. The Provider id for PMICOS is: L002.
For additional On-Demand webinars, please visit http://www.pmicos.org/ondemandlearning.asp.
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| Sales Opportunity - Capital Planning & Investment Control (CPIC) Solution |
Capital Planning & Investment Control (CPIC) is a hot topic across public sector and private sector, but what does it really mean?
Over the past decade the OMB and the Executive Office of the President has been working diligently to put better transparency and oversight into the business of Government. With the goal of creating a process that is specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound (SMART), the OMB continues to drive continuous improvement in the delivery of America's most vital programs. At its heart, these many efforts are focused on implementing a culture of responsibility and governance into the use of American public investment.
During this webcast we will demo Microsoft’s new CPIC Solution, built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and the Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution. This exciting solution provides executives with powerful collaboration and analytical tools designed to:
• Provide visibility and control throughout a project’s lifecycle
• Standardize the collection of investment requests
• Enhance the portfolio selection process
• Meet OMB 300 requirements
• Improve project execution and maximize ROI
• Evaluate and measure each investments effectiveness
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| Portfolio Management: ERP for IT? |
UMT Consulting Group invites you to view a complimentary webcast discussing the management of enterprise resources entitled “Portfolio Management: ERP for IT?”, and features Tom Malfi, Partner, providing a lessons learned and best practice approach to managing scarce resources across the enterprise to efficiently execute the portfolio.
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| Managing the Portfolio: 7 Key Success Factors |
As companies struggle to allocate limited resources and assets wisely, a process for ensuring that the right projects are worked on efficiently becomes critical to corporate strategy execution. There are several key ingredients to this complex effort of which work management aligned with corporate strategy is one of the most critical dimensions. Unfortunately, industry research as well as UMT Consulting's experience shows that a majority of organizations do not have a comprehensive work management approach that includes effective project management, program management, resource management and collaboration.
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| EPM Best Practices: Top 10 Do's and Don’ts |
UMT Consulting Group invites you to view a complimentary webcast discussing how your organization can increase Project and Portfolio Management maturity through Enterprise Portfolio Management (EPM) processes and the Microsoft EPM toolset. This webinar entitled “EPM Best Practices: Top 10 Dos and Don'ts” features Ava Dadabhoy, Senior Vice President at UMT Consulting Group and focuses on the practical aspects of implementing EPM processes and tools towards improving portfolio transparency and governance. View this webcast to leverage lessons learned and industry best practices and get started towards your goal of making improved project and portfolio management decisions.
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| Infrastrucutre Update Recording Part 2 - Best Practice - How to Get It Right! |
On July 15th, 2008 Microsoft announced the availability of the Infrastructure Update for Office Servers. The Infrastructure Update for Office Servers is a set of updates to improve platform performance and contain several customer driven fixes. The updates are applicable to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Search Server 2008 & Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Project 2007.
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| Infrastructure Update Recording Part 1 - Whats In It |
On July 15th, 2008 Microsoft announced the availability of the Infrastructure Update for Office Servers. The Infrastructure Update for Office Servers is a set of updates to improve platform performance and contain several customer driven fixes. The updates are applicable to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Search Server 2008 & Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Project 2007.
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| TimeControl 5 and Project 2007 |
HMS Software was recognized by Microsoft as a "First to Market" partner in 2006 for our work in integrating TimeControl with Project and Project Server 2007. This presentation shows how TimeControl version 5 links to Project 2007 and some of the benefits of using these two best-of-breed tools together.
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| A briefing on the released Project Infrastructure Update - the quality has just got even better |
Announcing the Infrastructure Update for Office Servers
On July 15th, 2008 Microsoft announced the availability of the Infrastructure Update for Office Servers. The Infrastructure Update for Office Servers is a set of updates to improve platform performance and contain several customer driven fixes. The updates are applicable to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Windows SharePoint Services 3.0, Microsoft Search Server 2008 & Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express, Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Project 2007.
There are several noteworthy new features and fixes shipped in these updates for Project Server 2007 and Project 2007; specifically:
Project Server
• Timesheets and My Tasks stability and usability improvements
• Queue Management user interface improvements
• Logging Tracing improvements
• Project Server performance improvements
• Project Server 2003 to Project Server 2007 migration fixes
• Database performance improvements to enhance the cube building process and Project Professional Save/Publish scenarios
Project Professional
• Cost Resources calculation fixes
• Improved Custom Fields stability
• Improved local Project Cache stability
• Fixed Excel Import problem
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| Overcome Your Greatest IT Challenges - IT Work Management Solution |
LMR Solutions, a two-time Microsoft award winner for EPM/PPM Best Practices, addresses the critical business challenges that IT organizations will face today and tomorrow as pressure builds on IT leadership teams to meet business demands, exceed service level expectations and customer satisfaction, effectively utilize resources and demonstrate value to the business. This session will cover critical IT topics that will enable your organization to overcome even the greatest IT challenges by achieving a higher level of performance through integration, collaboration and execution of top down and bottom-up strategies while using Microsoft Office Solutions.
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| Selecting the Right Work and Doing the Work Right! Microsoft Portfolio Server Value Briefing |
Learn how you can align, prioritize, and optimize your project investments by 50% or more leveraging the latest Microsoft technology! In this webinar, LMR Solutions, a two-time award winner for Microsoft EPM Best Practices, will discuss the challenges that many organizations face in managing their project portfolios and how these organizations can alleviate these challenges through the proper balance of process, governance framework, and technology. You understand how to leverage the latest Microsoft offerings, Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2006 and Project Server 2007 to support an integrated portfolio and project environment so that organizations can synchronize their top-down portfolio management strategy with bottoms-up project delivery, effectively ˜Selecting the Right Work and Doing the Work Right.
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| Generate Executive Business Intelligence Reports using EPM Live |
Discover how you can generate executive level reports using EPM Lives Workgroup solution. With EPM Live you can create customized BI charts using SharePoint web parts, custom views, Microsoft Excel 2007 and Microsoft Access 2007. EPM Live Workgroup leverages Microsoft Office Project 2007 which allows you to do desktop reporting as well as lightweight “what- if” modeling. Please join us to learn how you can generate effective project management reports for your organization.
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| The Road to Enterprise Project Management (EPM) using EPM Live Workgroup |
EPM Live offers a natural stepping stone to give you project management collaboration while your organization prepares for the commitment of an enterprise project management solution. According to Center of Business Practice, 90% of all organizations are between level 1 and 2 project management maturity. We will discuss how EPM Live can help you progress through these project management maturity levels and how to get the most from your projects in the meantime.
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| Project Portfolio Selection: Prioritizing for the Optimal Portfolio |
As companies struggle to allocate limited resources and assets wisely, a process for ensuring that the right projects are worked on at the right time becomes critical to corporate strategy execution and superior performance. The key element in this effort is the project and portfolio selection process, and in particular, the prioritization mechanism used to create the optimal portfolio. Unfortunately, industry research as well as UMT Consulting's experience shows that nearly one-third of organizations do not have a prioritization process in place, while another third merely use the existing process to rubber stamp all proposed projects through to approval.
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| Successful Project Portfolio Planning: Building the Business Case |
As organizations move towards a more project and portfolio-driven approach to strategy, the need to have a laser focus on execution and tactical deliverables becomes paramount. Unfortunately, research and experience shows projects and program initiatives most often fail because of a lack of early planning and preparation. The reason nearly a third of all projects continue to fail can be attributed to factors including a progressively difficult balance between time, cost and scope, a more demanding set of technology requirements, and a general rush to complete.
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