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SharePoint for Project Management

 
Course: 919   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Exploit SharePoint Technologies to manage successful projects
  • Build a SharePoint Project Management Information System (PMIS)
  • Create and customize a SharePoint site for effective project collaboration
  • Monitor and analyze the project schedule and milestones in a SharePoint site
  • Generate on-demand project status reports
  • Synchronize common project management tools with SharePoint

Course Benefits

Inefficient communication among stakeholders, poor document management practices and undefined project collaboration standards can compromise project success. SharePoint provides a Web-based framework that can empower organizations to create a standards-based PMIS with formal project management methodology. In this course, you acquire the knowledge and skills to more effectively manage projects using SharePoint.

Who Should Attend

Project managers and project teams who want to leverage SharePoint to manage projects more effectively. Course 296, "Project Management: Skills for Success," or equivalent knowledge is assumed. Prior experience with SharePoint is helpful but not required.

Course Workshop

Through a multimedia-enhanced three-day simulation, you manage a comprehensive project with SharePoint. You use project management best practices to create and utilize a SharePoint PMIS that allows you to actively plan, control and close the project. Experiential activities include:
  • Taking advantage of relevant project management standards and processes
  • Building and customizing a SharePoint PMIS
  • Creating a SharePoint communication plan
  • Generating lists and document libraries
  • Utilizing SharePoint collaboration tools
  • Monitoring and updating project tasks
  • Enabling change control with the three-state workflow
  • Customizing management dashboards with Web Parts
  • Updating a lessons learned wiki

Related Courses

 
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Upcoming Dates

Dec 10 - 12, 2008
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Jan 7 - 9, 2009
 Los Angeles
Jan 14 - 16, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Feb 4 - 6, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Feb 18 - 20, 2009
 New York
Feb 18 - 20, 2009
 Ottawa
Mar 4 - 6, 2009
 Toronto
Mar 11 - 13, 2009
 Philadelphia
Mar 18 - 20, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Apr 1 - 3, 2009
 Dallas
Apr 1 - 3, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Apr 8 - 10, 2009
 Boston (Waltham)
Apr 15 - 17, 2009
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Apr 15 - 17, 2009
 Los Angeles
Apr 22 - 24, 2009
 N. New Jersey

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SharePoint for Project Management

 
Course: 919   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 
Course 919 Content
 

Overview of a SharePoint PMIS

  • What is a Project Management Information System (PMIS)?
  • Leveraging industry best practices, tools and techniques to achieve project success
  • Benefiting from SharePoint collaboration features
  • Tailoring SharePoint as a standards-based PMIS

Establishing the PMIS Platform

Creating the SharePoint PMIS

  • Presenting a project management methodology
  • Identifying relevant organizational processes
  • Setting up sites with new and existing templates
  • Configuring basic PMIS features
  • Performing initial site administrative tasks

Adding users and setting permissions

  • Defining organizational structure
  • Determining stakeholders and communication requirements
  • Building a SharePoint communication plan
  • Assigning site memberships
  • Customizing permissions for specific site components

Customizing the PMIS structure and standards

  • Planning the information architecture
  • Generating issue, contact, calendar, project tracking and custom lists
  • Centralizing documents in libraries
  • Supporting various document types: PDF, Word documents and Excel spreadsheets

Fostering Team Collaboration

Identifying project coordination challenges

  • Real-time
  • Remote
  • Offline
  • Performing a needs assessment
  • Selecting the appropriate SharePoint solution

Employing SharePoint collaboration features

  • Enabling version control, check-in/check-out and content approval for document management
  • Allowing for offline communication with discussion boards
  • Utilizing wikis for efficient content management
  • Linking Microsoft Office to SharePoint through a document workspace

Tracking Projects with SharePoint

Monitoring the project schedule

  • Establishing project tracking guidelines
  • Documenting a risk management process
  • Subscribing to automated alerts

Analyzing project progress

  • Comparing planned vs. actual task performance
  • Assigning tasks to team members with the Project Task List
  • Updating the Issues List

Correcting project deviation

  • Determining change control procedures
  • Approving changes with the three-state workflow
  • Re-evaluating the project schedule

Disseminating Project Reports

Informing project status to stakeholders

  • Monitoring project status with custom-built Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
  • Filtering project information with custom views
  • Creating management dashboards with Web Parts

Establishing a Meeting Workspace

  • Centralizing meeting agendas, documents, action items, schedules and contacts
  • Linking Microsoft Outlook with SharePoint
  • Locating project information with the built-in search tool

Integrating Project Management Tools

Leveraging existing project tracking documents

  • Exporting Microsoft Excel spreadsheet data to SharePoint lists
  • Importing a SharePoint Task List into Microsoft Project

Presenting project status data

  • Editing a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation from a SharePoint PMIS
  • Considering third-party products and application compatibility with SharePoint

Successfully Closing the Project

  • Transferring project and personal lessons learned
  • Archiving the SharePoint PMIS
 
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SharePoint for Project Management Tuition

 
Course: 919   Type: RealityPlus   Duration: 3 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,390 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,350 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,700 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,155 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,124 Government Discount
 

 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

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  • 4 courses in 24 months
  • As little as $1,700 per course
  • Save as much as 45%
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  • A NEW way to save on training
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  • Save as much as $990 per course
  • Fully transferable
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