Course Outline: This course is designed to cover all the features of the 2010 Project Web App (PWA) likely to be used by Executives. There is a specific emphasis on reporting and top level programme review features. The delegate will understand how to view programmes and projects via Web Access, and see how they can be reported on by using project attributes and categories. Through Web Access, the delegate can also view Enterprise project data via Data Analysis views, thus enhancing his/her understanding of the effect of individual projects on the overall database of projects.  In conjunction with functionality training, labs are used to provide each delegate with hands-on experience.

Who Should Attend: Executives & Stakeholders who need to view project, programme and portfolio information, resource capacity and loading data, and graphical reports, as well as being able to make key decisions using this data. No previous experience is assumed or is necessary.

Course Content: How data is exchanged between Microsoft Project Professional 2010, Project Server and viewed in the PWA Browser. How users/stakeholders without Microsoft Project 2010 can interact with the Project Server database. The features of PWA that are most helpful in allowing Executives and key stakeholders to understand the progress and status of programmes and projects, current portfolio status, and in understanding how to use reports, dashboards and business intelligence from the system. A more general overview of the Project Server solution will be provided so Executives can understand the interaction required by other users.

An overview of the Microsoft EPM solution

PWA Home Page and overall navigation tips

Security overview and User roles
An overview of the Security principles, roles and groups in EPM

Portfolio Management and Portfolio Selection/Criteria

Project Manager’s role and Microsoft Project Professional
Understanding the role of the Project manager and the key processes that drive project management in EPM

The Project Center in PWA
Where and how to review projects, filtering and understanding Views

Editing projects in PWA
An overview of the editing capabilities in PWA. When PWA can be used vs. Project Professional

Projects and Programmes and Programme Management functionality.
How to view projects and programme information. Grouping of projects.

Resources
An overview of the Resource Center Page, including viewing Resource Availability & Assignments

Updating Cycles – Progress and Tracking
A general overview of the progress and tracking options available in EPM, which ones to choose for your business and if, when and how to progress to a more detailed level of tracking over time.

Reporting, Dashboards and Business Intelligence
Using reports, dashboard and general BI capabilities in EPM

Role of SharePoint in EPM

The Project Workspace

·         Document Management
How to manage documents for projects, including adding documents to projects and linking them to tasks, issues and risks.         

·         Issues
How to raise and manage issues for projects, including creating new issues and linking them to tasks.

·         Risks
How to raise and manage risks in projects, including creating new risks and linking them to tasks.

Considerations for new deployments of EPM

Considerations for upgrading from a previous version of EPM (2003 or 2007)

LOB Integration
Integration of Project Server with other applications
Office and Exchange Integration