The Amazing Adventures of Geek Girl : click through demo

Recorded EPM Demo Part 7: New features in Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007

tara — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:39:50 GMT

The final part of the EPM Click Through Demo showcases some of the new features in Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007, including change highlighting, multi-level undo, task driver information, visual reporting capabilities and recurring status reports.

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Recorded EPM Demo Part 6: Managing Projects Effectively

tara — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:33:07 GMT

Part 5 of the Click Through Demo focuses on how the Microsoft EPM solution can help Project Managers effectively manage their projects. This includes demonstrating how project team members can record the time spent working on project tasks by reporting task progress and by completing timesheets, and how they can submit written updates on their tasks using status reports either directly from a web browser using Project Web Access or from Microsoft Office Outlook. The Project Manager can then log onto Project Web Access to approve or reject the information submitted by project team members.

The collaboration available through Project Workspaces is also shown, as well as the ability to store project documents and to report any issues or risks that may affect the project.

The Microsoft EPM solution helps you DO THINGS RIGHT.

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Recorded EPM Demo Part 5: Planning Projects

tara — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:14:22 GMT

Part 5 of the Click Through Demo shows how the Microsoft EPM solution can be used to help Project Managers and Resource Managers plan projects. This includes looking at resource availability on Project Web Access, assigning resources to a project stored on Microsoft Office Project Server 2007.

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Recorded EPM Demo Part 4: Advanced Analysis on the Project Portfolio

tara — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:54:29 GMT

Part 4 of the EPM Click Through Demo is around the advanced analysis that can be performed on the portfolio of projects. It follows on from selecting an optimised portfolio in part 3.

Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 allows some advanced analysis on the selected portfolio. This includes an efficiency frontier curve, to show the difference between the value of the selected portfolio and the maximum value possible, and highlight which constraints are causing this value difference. The business driver priorities can also be adjusted to see how effective the selected portfolio of projects would be if the priority score of any business drivers were to change. The visual reporting capabilities of Project Portfolio Server give a graphical view of how the cost of projects aligns to the priorities of the business drivers.

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Recorded EPM Demo Part 3: Selecting a Prioritised and Optimised Portfolio of Projects

tara — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:39:26 GMT

Part 3 of the EPM Click Through Demo focuses on selecting a prioritised and optimised portfolio of projects that meet a company's key business drivers. Using Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, executives within one business can prioritise the business drivers, resulting in a list of key business drivers each with a percentage priority.

The entire portfolio of projects can then be optimised against this list of ordered business drivers to show the impact that each project will have against each business driver and the company's overall strategy. Other factors such as financial impact and risk of projects, as well as available budget and resources can be taken into consideration.

Using Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, an organisation can select an optimised portfolio of projects that will best align to their business drivers while also considering any cost, resource or compliance limitations - helping you DO THE RIGHT THINGS.

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Recorded EPM Demo Part 2: Creating Standard Project Proposals

tara — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:52:07 GMT

Part 2 of the recorded Click Through Demo focuses on standardising project proposals across the enterprise. By using Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, a business can ensure that the same information is captured for each project proposed. This allows projects to be prioritised against other projects and against the key business drivers, to then allow fair and rational decisions about which projects should be executed and which projects should not.

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Recorded EPM Demo Part 1: Executive Level Overview

tara — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:06:52 GMT

I hope all of the EPM partners out there know about the EPM Click Through Demo available from EPM Connect. For those that don't, it's essentially an advanced PowerPoint presentation, which walks you through various project selection and management scenarios where the Microsoft EPM solution can provide a real business benefit. Unlike the EPM Virtual Machines (email proj2007@microsoft.com for VM download details), the click through demo is a small file (megabytes not gigabytes). It's especially useful for sales employees to become familiar with the look and feel of the Microsoft EPM solution and some of the key functionality available.

There's an accompanying script to the Click Through Demo, which talks through the business scenarios and explains what is happening as you click through the screens. Although the script is extremely useful (and well worth reading at least once!), it can be quite difficult to coordinate reading the script, finding the correct place to click on the screen and following what's happening in the scenario at the same time. For this reason, I've recorded various videos of the click through demo while talking through what's happening in the EPM environment and how this helps to solve the business problem.

There are 7 videos; one for each section of the Click Through Demo script. Hopefully these videos will be useful for partners, particularly partner sales teams who perhaps aren't very familiar with the EPM solution yet, as it gives a quick overview of how the EPM solution works and real business problems it can help to solve.

Part 1 is the Executive Level Overview. This shows how the project visibility available through the Microsoft EPM solution can be used to give executives a high level overview of the status of all projects across the business. From here, the executive can drill down into problem areas, to find individual issues or risks associated with a particular project that are causing delays or overspends. They can then use this information to contact the appropriate Project Managers, and develop a solution to help get the project back on track.

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