Objectives: Each student will follow the instructor and complete hands-on exercises
on their own computer workstation that is pre-loaded with the Microsoft
Office 2010 application suite and Microsoft Project Professional 2010,
and is connected to a live Project Server 2010 training system that is
shared with other students in the class. Each student will create and
manage projects in the Project Server 2010 environment and follow the
same steps that they would follow if they were creating and managing live
projects in a production system.
Duration: 2 Days
Module 1 – Introduction
to Microsoft Project Server 2010
- Introduction to Microsoft Project Server 2010
- Review Project Server's main features and terminology
- Review how Project Server facilitates the life of a project
- Review how Project Server uses its four databases
- Review the project data and metadata model
- Review how the web and desktop interfaces are used.
Module 2 - Using the Project Web App (PWA) Interface
- Open Project Web App (PWA) web site
- Navigate through its interface, and use the main features of the
interface.
Module 3 - Resource and Assignment Planning with PWA
- Select resources from the Project Server Enterprise Resource Pool
& add them to a project team in PWA
- Reserve resources for a project using a Resource Plan
- Assign resources to tasks in a project schedule.
Module 4 - Viewing and Analyzing Enterprise Resources in
PWA
- Navigate and manipulate resource data views in the PWA Resource Center
- Locate a resource in the PWA Resource Center and view its properties
- Select one or more resources and analyze their assignments, workloads,
and availabilities.
Module 5 - Resource and Assignment Planning with Project
Pro
- Review the types of enterprise resources in the Project Server Enterprise
Resource Pool
- Learn how to select resources from the Enterprise Resource Pool and
add them to a project team in Project Pro
- Review the variables that affect resource assignments in a project
schedule
- Assign work resources to tasks in a project schedule
- Manage resource overallocations in a project schedule
- Use cost resources to plan for fixed project costs.
Module 6 - Tracking Time and Task Progress with
- Review task status tracking and time tracking in Project Server
- View and manipulate task and activity views on the PWA Tasks and
Timesheet pages
- Plan and track time against various project and non-project activities
on the PWA Timesheet page
- Track task progress on the PWA Tasks page.
Module 7 - Reviewing and Approving
Timesheet Updates with PWA
- Adding team members to timesheets
- Dealing with Administrative time and holidays in timesheets
- View and process submitted timesheet status updates in the PWA Approval
Center
- View the timesheet status updates history in the PWA Approval Center
- Configure automatic timesheet status acceptance rules
- How to prevent further timesheet status updates for timesheet items
in a project.
Module 8 - Working with PWA Status Reports
- Request that project team members complete and submit a periodic
Project Server Status Report
- Respond to a Status Report request
- View Status Report responses submitted by your project team members
Module 9 - Working With the Business Intelligence Center
- Review the Excel reporting architecture in Project Server
- Visit and navigate in the Project Server Business Intelligence Center
- View Excel reports and dashboards in the Business Intelligence Center
- Open and modify an Excel report with Microsoft Excel.
Module 10 - Managing and Configuring a Project Site
- Modify the structure, behaviours, and appearance of the Risks and
Issues lists in a Project Site
- Modify the structure, behaviours, and appearance of the Project Documents
library in a Project Site
- Modify the information displayed on the home page of a Project Site.
Module 11 - Other Day-to-Day Administrative Functions
- Change the ownership of an enterprise project
- How to check in a project via the PWA Project Center
- Manage personal e-mail notifications sent by Project Server
- How to temporarily delegate your role to a co-worker.
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