Managing Enterprise Projects
using Microsoft Project Server 2003

PMPs Earn 21 PDUs

On-site Only: Not Available for Open-enrollment

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Course Overview

Managing Enterprise Projects using Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 takes your Microsoft Project competency to the Enterprise level. The field of Enterprise Project Management (aka EPM) presents many new challenges, even for the experienced user of Microsoft Project. In this course, you learn through hands-on exercises how to use Project Server 2003 in a step by step process to manage enterprise projects effectively. Focusing on how to use Microsoft Project Professional 2003 and Project Web Access for project tracking and team collaboration, you learn everything from the basics of EPM tracking methods to the subtleties of mining information in the system.

Target Audience

Managing Enterprise Projects using Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 is the premier methodology-agnostic course for everyone who serves as a project manager, portfolio manager, or scheduler in an enterprise project management environment using the Microsoft EPM platform. This course is “must have” training for application administrators who support business users and maintain the Project Server application configuration. This course is highly recommended for technical administrators who support EPM platforms to provide for better end-user understanding and communication.

Pre-Requisites

Those serious about developing an expert-level competency for managing enterprise projects with the Microsoft EPM tool set should first complete the Establishing a Project Management Foundation using Microsoft Office Project 2003 course. For students with significant experience using Microsoft Project and substantial scheduling and tracking mastery, the pre-requisite course provides a great skills refresher, but you may treat this as optional.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Describe the project communication life cycle used with Project Server
• Create and save an enterprise project, and work with offline projects
• Add resources to a project team, assign resources to tasks, and level overallocated resources
• Publish projects and task assignments
• Understand and use the Project Web Access user interface
• Track and update project progress
• Use Outlook to track task progress
• Set up e-mail notifications and reminders from Project Server
• Manage risks, issues, and documents associated with a project
• Create and manage Status Reports
• Access resource information and project portfolio information through Project Web Access
• Perform portfolio analysis using the Portfolio Analyzer and the Portfolio Modeler