Mining Your Enterprise Portfolio
using Microsoft Project Server 2003
Course Overview
This course gives managers and executives a thorough overview of Microsoft Office
Project Server 2003, preparing them for the advent of Microsoft EPM in their organization’s
environment. After preparing managers for the new work flows and control systems,
this course focuses is on information retrieval and data mining appropriate for
planning and analysis.
Target Audience
Executives and managers working in an organization that uses Microsoft Office Project
Server 2003 to manage its projects and/or work should take this course to become
grounded in the process changes that an EPM system brings as well as to become skillful
in retrieving data that will assist in their management decision making. This is
a must for anyone with oversight responsibilities for a portfolio or program of
projects in an enterprise project management environment who is not taking another
course in the EPM Learning program.
Pre-Requisites
Students should be familiar with Microsoft Office applications such as Word and
Excel. Experience with Excel Pivot tables is helpful but not required.
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the project communication life cycle used with Project Server
- Understand and use the Project Web Access user interface
- Track and update task progress in Project Web Access and in Outlook
- 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