Microsoft Project 2002 Solutions Guide

Enterprise Project Management

Microsoft Project Professional, Microsoft Project Server 2002 and Microsoft Project Server Client Access Licenses (CALs)

Need to effectively manage and prioritize initiatives and resources across your organization? Now you can with the Microsoft Solution Offering for Enterprise Project Management. The new Microsoft Project Server provides a centrally managed repository of project and resource information so that organizations can store data consistently. That way, project reporting for an entire portfolio remains up-to-date and meaningful.  Web-based resource and portfolio management tools help executives align initiatives with business objectives, quickly identify problems, and take corrective actions. Team members stay involved and informed through easy-to-use, Web-based, collaborative tools, while project managers continue to use the comprehensive project management features of Microsoft Project Professional. In addition, an extensible, enterprise-scale architecture gives you the power to integrate Microsoft Project 2002 with other line-of-business systems for a complete, secure solution.

Manage Resources

Get accurate information about resource utilization and skills across your organization. Centralized resource management. Manage resources effectively throughout your organization with a central enterprise resource pool. Use the Resource Center to view, group, and edit resource information and even evaluate resource utilization and availability across multiple projects.

Resource optimization. Assemble the best team for each project. Evaluate skills and assignments with the help of new resource availability graphs, the Resource Substitution Wizard, and the Build Team from Enterprise feature.

Analyze and Report

Rely on Microsoft Project Server to deliver convenient portfolio management, real-time reporting, and modeling capabilities.
Project portfolio views. Quickly identify projects that are behind schedule or over budget with customizable graphicsl indicators, which appear in the high-level portfolio view of projects in Project Center.

Powerful analysis. Gain insight into projects with Portfolio Analyzer, a flexible analysis tool that allows you to interact with real-time project and resource data to identify trends and problem areas throughout your portfolio.

What-if scenarios. Identify and evaluate options for addressing at-risk projects. The new Portfolio Modeler models the impact of changes to schedules and resource assignments across your portfolio so that you can prioritize work effectively.

Share Information

Give team members and stakeholders the ability to view, update, and analyze project information right from their Web browsers.
Flexible information access. Let team members, external partners, and other stakeholders easily access and analyze role-specific information through Microsoft Project Web Access-only a Microsoft Project Server CAL is required.

Centralized project documentation. Enhance project collaboration and knowledge sharing through the new integration with SharePoint-Team Services from Microsoft, which provides a central location for organizing and tracking project-related documents and issues.

Promote Standardization

Extend and integrate the customizable platform and tools across systems to align with your organization's business processes.
Enterprise consistency. Deploy enterprise templates and custom fields that enable consistent reporting across your project portfoiio. Use the Enterprise Global template to define key resource Information, such as skills and location, to better evaiuate schedules, costs, and utilization rates across the organization.

Customizable Project Guide. Promote your project management methodology and best practices from within Microsoft Project by developing custom Project Guides through the extended Microsoft Project Object Model.

Industry standards. Integrate Microsoft Project with other line-of-business applications and databases using its full support for industry standards such as XML and SOAP.
 

Rational Software and Microsoft Project Ensure Your Project Success

Rational ProjectConsole: your project metrics dashboard

Now it's easier than ever to manage your .NET development activities using Microsoft Project and Rational Software's full lifecycle of software development tools.

With the Rational Unified Process, your team can standardize on the proven, industry-wide process platform that is configurable to suit project needs. The new RUP Planning Guide for Microsoft Project 2002 will help you jump-start planning of iterative development projects with a customizable, pre-populated project plan based on RUP best practices. And with Rational ProjectConsole, a project metrics dashboard, you can monitor "true" project status. Project metrics are automatically generated based on information from Rational, Microsoft Project, and any other third-party tools.

Rational Suite delivers all this and more. The Rational Suite product family is a tightly integrated development solution that empowers your team with tools that maximize team and individual productivity. Rational Suite tools support every function on your team including: requirements and analysis, software development, system testing, software configuration management, and project management. Moreover, accelerate team success with Rational Services that offer start-up training, ongoing Web education via the Rational Developer NetworkSM and more.

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