ENTERPRISE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
About Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management
Project management is a structured discipline that combines knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to deliver projects successfully. For customer-driven organisations, sound project management is a critical part of delivering high-quality products and services, consistently and efficiently.
The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution enables your organisation to better manage projects and resources, collaborate, and analyse and report on projects. With its web-based portfolio management tools, your executives can align people and projects with business objectives, quickly identify problems and take steps to correct them. Project team members can easily update project information, work with others, and stay informed through email and web-based tools. And project managers can continue to use the comprehensive project management features they're familiar with from Microsoft Office Project Professional.
An extensible architecture means your organisation can integrate easily with Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management, using existing line-of-business systems, for a complete solution.
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Why Project Management Matters
Business Value Through Project Management
The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution
High-Quality Projects Through Repeatable Processes
Meet Customer Expectations with Accurate Planning and Tracking
Improve Accountability and Problem Resolution
Why Project Management Matters
The consequences of poor project management are serious. Without consistent practices, replicating efforts and spending excess time on delivering new projects is inevitable. And inconsistent procedures mean valued customers don't experience predictable levels of quality.
In today's competitive environment, satisfying and retaining your customers is as important as ever and there's little room for project errors. Without the capability to accurately scope work or track progress, it becomes impossible to set and manage realistic customer expectations, resulting in lower satisfaction and customer defection.
Business Value Through Project Management
Implementing an infrastructure for consistent project management practices across your organisation makes delivery of your products and services more cost effective. By closely monitoring project performance, you can better identify core strengths and continually refine your project management processes to achieve even lower costs, faster cycles and higher quality.
The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution
Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management provides the tools you need to manage work effectively. The powerful scheduling capabilities in Microsoft Office Project Professional help ensure that projects are delivered efficiently and consistently. Web-based tools and integration with Microsoft Outlook allow your whole team to participate in a project, permitting accurate tracking and up-to-date reporting. And because the Enterprise Project Management infrastructure can be customised to accommodate your specific project management needs, you can tailor and apply repeatable processes to get the best performance from your organisation.
High-Quality Projects Through Repeatable Processes
Implementing and refining repeatable processes is crucial for consistent, high-quality project delivery. With Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management, you can deploy standard project management methodologies alongside customised processes through the Project Guide in Microsoft Office Project Professional.
The Project Guide is a planning aid available as a series of task panes. It can be customised to translate specific business practices into interactive, guided steps, enabling new and experienced project managers to use the latest processes and best practices for compliance and consistency across your organisation.
Meet Customer Expectations with Accurate Planning and Tracking
Meeting customer expectations depends on your ability to exercise control of the project budget, schedule and scope, from start to finish. Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management provides comprehensive tracking tools that enable you to accurately plan and centrally manage your projects. Using the web and email, your team members can report task progress to their project managers who can then quickly pin-point variations in actual project performance from intended project goals. Powerful scheduling tools help project managers address problem areas and resource conflicts to keep projects on track.
Improve Accountability and Problem Resolution
Effective project management means identifying and resolving problems early, before they jeopardise success. Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 integrates with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services (requires Microsoft Windows Server 2003) to enable project teams to centrally track, assign and escalate issues for greater accountability. Through this central issue tracking system, you can better manage problems affecting your project and prioritise efforts to resolve them quickly.