Title of the presentation
Alain Fournier
Presentation: Project Management Tools for Increasing Project Success!
Alain is a Project and Portfolio Management Solutions Executive with Microsoft Canada specializing in Cloud Productivity Solutions Have over 20 years of experience in working with enterprise customers, identifying opportunities for efficiencies or improved productivity, and helping them set a roadmap for success.
Alain’s primary focus is understanding business drivers, and educating on new business approaches that help drive organizational groups to exceed their goals, and support cost controls and project management governance and growing revenue for their business • In Public Sector, Alain has helped implement new portfolio management solutions to manage efficient decision process in projects prioritization. •
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Project
Project
Project
Evolution of project
Collaborative Project Management
Unstructured Project Management
Ad-hoc Project Management • • • •
Email Excel MS Project Standard Other tools
Team Project Management • • • •
SharePoint Task Lists Sync to SharePoint Online Tooling Microsoft Project Professional
Structured Project Management
Portfolio & Project Management • Project Server 2013 • Project Online • Microsoft Project Professional
Project
Top 10 things why you should use Microsoft Project to manager projects
Project
Top 10 things why you should use Microsoft Project to manager projects
Project
Excel • Ad-Hoc projects • Classic unstructured Project
created in Excel
• Simple Cut and Paste
Project
Scheduling In Project Management
Project
Creating Task Framework Activity Detail
New Coffee Shop – Location
Task
Research Location
Task
Lease Location
Milestone
New Coffee shop Location - Confirmed
Project
Project • Top 10
Project
Status Report
Project
SharePoint Team Site • Simple to Set up • Quick Start through ‘Getting
Started tiles’
• Time Lines, Milestones and
basic task management
• East to configure • Simple Cut and Paste
Project
SharePoint Team Site - continued • Better Task Management (no
more folders)
• ‘Classic’ task control with
keyboard short cuts
• Organise • Drag to reorganise
Project
SharePoint Team Site - continued • Timelines beyond Microsoft
Project Client
• Configure tasks on timeline with
drag and drop
• Add Start dates to create ‘bars’ • Colour and configure task and
milestones
Project
Team Sites with Project Pro • Open Task List with Project
Professional
• Project Professional keeps the
data in the Task List and synchronized
• Task and Timelines are both
synchronized
• ‘Getting Started’ tutorial to gain
insight to project management steps and reports
Project
Reporting with Project Pro • Powerful Timeline customisation • New Timeline capabilities • Easy integration with other
applications
• Cut & paste into PowerPoint to
build effective reporting decks
• Paste Timeline as separate
objects so easily customised further
• Respects Design Themes
Project
Resources Forum for questions: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/projectserver/enUS/home?forum=project Trial of Project Pro for Office 365: https://products.office.com/en-ca/Project/project-pro-for-office-365
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Project
Presentation: Project Management Tools for Increasing Project Success!
Alain is a Project and Portfolio Management Solutions Executive with Microsoft Canada specializing in Cloud Productivity Solutions Have over 20 years of experience in working with enterprise customers, identifying opportunities for efficiencies or improved productivity, and helping them set a roadmap for success.
Alain’s primary focus is understanding business drivers, and educating on new business approaches that help drive organizational groups to exceed their goals, and support cost controls and project management governance and growing revenue for their business • In Public Sector, Alain has helped implement new portfolio management solutions to manage efficient decision process in projects prioritization. •
1
Project
Project
Project
Evolution of project
Collaborative Project Management
Unstructured Project Management
Ad-hoc Project Management • • • •
Email Excel MS Project Standard Other tools
Team Project Management • • • •
SharePoint Task Lists Sync to SharePoint Online Tooling Microsoft Project Professional
Structured Project Management
Portfolio & Project Management • Project Server 2013 • Project Online • Microsoft Project Professional
Project
Top 10 things why you should use Microsoft Project to manager projects
Project
Top 10 things why you should use Microsoft Project to manager projects
Project
Excel • Ad-Hoc projects • Classic unstructured Project
created in Excel
• Simple Cut and Paste
Project
Scheduling In Project Management
Project
Creating Task Framework Activity Detail
New Coffee Shop – Location
Task
Research Location
Task
Lease Location
Milestone
New Coffee shop Location - Confirmed
Project
Project • Top 10
Project
Status Report
Project
SharePoint Team Site • Simple to Set up • Quick Start through ‘Getting
Started tiles’
• Time Lines, Milestones and
basic task management
• East to configure • Simple Cut and Paste
Project
SharePoint Team Site - continued • Better Task Management (no
more folders)
• ‘Classic’ task control with
keyboard short cuts
• Organise • Drag to reorganise
Project
SharePoint Team Site - continued • Timelines beyond Microsoft
Project Client
• Configure tasks on timeline with
drag and drop
• Add Start dates to create ‘bars’ • Colour and configure task and
milestones
Project
Team Sites with Project Pro • Open Task List with Project
Professional
• Project Professional keeps the
data in the Task List and synchronized
• Task and Timelines are both
synchronized
• ‘Getting Started’ tutorial to gain
insight to project management steps and reports
Project
Reporting with Project Pro • Powerful Timeline customisation • New Timeline capabilities • Easy integration with other
applications
• Cut & paste into PowerPoint to
build effective reporting decks
• Paste Timeline as separate
objects so easily customised further
• Respects Design Themes
Project
Resources Forum for questions: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/projectserver/enUS/home?forum=project Trial of Project Pro for Office 365: https://products.office.com/en-ca/Project/project-pro-for-office-365
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