Microsoft EPM Fundamentals

Course Overview

The course is directed at Senior Project Management Professionals involved in planning and managing a project portfolio using the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution.

Project portfolio and resource management as well as enhanced collaboration and communication are major challenges at the organizational level. The EPM Solution establishes an end-toend collaborative project and portfolio environment. This helps your organization to gain transparency, insight, and continuous control across all projects in the portfolio on work, and on their progress and resource utilization, while measuring and increasing operational efficiency. You will learn

• How the tool can support your PMO organization to reach the above mentioned business goals and
• how to use the system in order to fulfill your role within the PMO organization. Specific attention is given to security requirements resulting from the enterprise level approach.

Your Benefits

• Know the EPM architecture and purpose of each component better
• Define and characterize a Shared Enterprise Resource Pool
• Learn how to publish the project plan and how to keep track of progress through timesheets and task updates
• Understand how to re-plan the enterprise project work
• Know the reporting capabilities beyond the Microsoft® Project client tool

Who should attend?

• Senior Project Managers
• Program Managers
• Portfolio Managers

What you can expect

• Interactive Lecture
• Exercises

Prerequisites

• Basic project management skills with Microsoft® Project 2007
• Know how to define projects and how to enter work break down structures and dependencies between tasks
• Know how to plan tasks