Being able to open a browser, go to the Project
Center, sort and filter the projects by custom
criteria, show dashboard like indicators and
drill in on the detail is all significant
project management capability.
Theoretically, these scenarios are very easy
possibilities with this system:
Your sponsors or clients can open their
browser (Internet Explorer), wherever they are in the world and
view their projects and only their projects.
Within reason,
they can determine how they want to
see those projects.
You could be in Denver, your project manager
is on-site in Santa Rosa with your largest
client and you could be on
the phone reviewing the latest updates on
their projects.
Instead of using cutesy PowerPoint decks on
project status.
Project reviews can be conducted with live
data from any conference room in the
building that has an internet connection.
A dashboard can be created showing project
status across strategic objectives and
placed in Outlook for each executive. The
executive selects a folder in Outlooks and a
dashboard view is displayed.
The CIO wants a list of all active projects
at the last minute for a board meeting. During the meeting they log on, filter a
relevant view, and begin to discuss the details
of any project real-time.
Experience: We worked
with an international shipping company for a
couple of years and their goal was 100% time
reporting across 500 IT people in 20
locations including project and non-project
time. They got a new CIO one day and he told
our primary contact that he wanted a list
and status of all projects. Our contact
said, "So, I went to my desk and printed it
out and walked over to his desk and gave it
to him. I know this doesn't sound like a bid
deal, but before we implemented EPM that
data would have taken us weeks to gather!"
Some really good things about Microsoft Project Server
(for more good things, click on the selections above (Good #2
- Good #8) to review.
