| We want to train you to become an
expert in planning and running a
Microsoft Project Server deployment.
You know your organization and
culture better than any outside firm.
You know you what you need, and you are
the best candidate for being behind the
wheel and driving a Project
Server deployment from A to Z.
We want to guide you to have realistic
expectations of this system and to set
obtainable goals.
We want to train you to have the
necessary skills.
We want to equip you with the right
tools to do the job.
We want to support you remotely during
prototype, pilot, and your initial
deployment phases.
But we insist that you have to do the work. The
thinking, the evaluation, the
configuration and the planning. Most
importantly you will need to do the
performance management and provide the
continuing education.
If you can't plan and deploy
Microsoft Project
Server (EPM) pretty much on your own you will not be able to
manage it, get it to grow, and derive value
from all the time and money invested.
Often these days many people who are
thinking about deploying Microsoft Project Server ask us for a
deployment plan even before we really
understand their objectives and culture.
Most of the time they have already
picked up a couple of plans freely given
out by the EPM community. Maybe even
worse, they have sent out an RFP
requesting a bunch of them.
We have learned to
reply to this request by asking, "First show
us your performance
management and compliance plan. Your
continuing education plan. Your strategy
for making this system sustainable."
The
reason? We are not going to pretend that
being successful with Project Server is
primarily about gathering requirements,
installing and configuring the software,
and training people.
It isn't the cart before the horse.
You can't build an EPM system and think
people will come.
It isn't just about the enterprise
project management software. We
would even suggest that if the software
basically works the way it is promised
to on the box, it merely
plays a minor role in a successful
enterprise project management (EPM)
implementation.
Success with MS Project Server is more a
function of how you are going to manage
the performance of people using the
system than it has anything to do with
the software. No one can do that work for you, it
is your responsibility.
There are no short cuts you can take
to a successful EPM or MS Project Server deployment. You can't
hire someone to do the thinking and the
work for you. You can't get there in a
day and if you want to do detailed
resource management and capacity
planning you are not likely to get
it right in a year - if ever, unless you
have really figured out how to manage
reporting performance and how to sustain
it over time.
In fact, taking the
approach of hiring a technical firm to come in and
derive the requirements and then perform
the configuration for you, will likely,
lead you down the wrong road or maybe
even to
a dead end. It will more than likely
delay your success. Get you to bite off
more than you can chew. Tie you all up
in knots. |
We provide several types of custom
services and products to fit your
deployment needs.