In this SharePoint project management training course, you will learn how to:

• Enterprise-class project management with Sharepoint
• Real-world configurations & customized project sites
• How to make SharePoint your ultimate PMIS
• Running tight version control using SharePoint tools
• Workflow & process automation, calendars, Gantt charts, & more
• Integrate project work & Microsoft Office & Project 2010
• Reporting with SharePoint’s Excel Services
• Forecasts, KPIs, Business Intelligence, & more
• New business intelligence features for informative reporting & digital dashboards
• Content management for easy web site creation
• Use new real-time collaborative technologies in SharePoint and Office 2010
• Design "tell-all" dashboards for complete view of projects
• Use SharePoint BI features to graphically display project data

New and updated for SharePoint 2010

SharePoint Server 2010 includes many new features that make managing enterprise-class projects even easier. Integration between SharePoint Server and Project 2010 means project managers can manage enterprise-sized projects without relying on third party tools. Improved business intelligence features allow you to create informative reports and digital dashboards to keep stakeholders and sponsors informed. Content management features allow non-programmers and designers to create effective, elegant web sites without writing a line of code.
The collaborative technologies of SharePoint Server 2010 can take your projects to the next level. Efficient, effective communication and automation of project processes assist with day-to-day management and reduce the time needed to complete your projects.

Manage your communication, scope, information, workflow, & more.

More and more successful organizations use SharePoint to drive projects and operational initiatives. SharePoint allows teams to collectively manage information and work effort, collaborate seamlessly with colleagues and stakeholders, and — above all — transform the work of individual employees into a powerful unified effort that drives the project forward. Project Managers can coordinate all players with more ease than ever before and keep everyone on the same page, even as they harness information tools that allow the most efficient project management the industry has ever seen.

Learn lab-driven skills for the real world, and prepare to use them immediately in your own workplace from SharePoint project management training.

This hands-on, lab-driven, SharePoint project management training course guides managers, project managers, and team leaders through the real-world process of using SharePoint to drive projects. Improve efficiency and boost the likelihood of success as you learn to build a customized Project Management Information System (PMIS), develop SharePoint project sites, build document libraries and management protocols. You’ll integrate Microsoft Office software, build SharePoint Workflows, archive completed projects, and much more during SharePoint project management training. Add these critical SharePoint tools to your project management expertise and experience the drastic difference that comes with truly effective project management.

Immediate Benefits of This SharePoint Project Management Training Class:

1. Construct a PMIS using SharePoint to schedule planning reporting and forecasting for your project
2. Automate data collection efforts by using InfoPath forms and Form Services
3. Allow all project stakeholders instant access to critical project information quickly and easily
4. Unlock “silos” of information by using a SharePoint portal
5. Set up one or multiple projects using a Microsoft Project Plan
6. Facilitate meetings and communication using SharePoint
7. Enable stakeholders with project status information and quickly communicate and solve problems
8. Easily build Business Intelligence reports using Excel Services
9. Utilize SharePoint’s built-in workflow capabilities and learn how to create custom workflows tailored to your organizational needs
10. Leverage Visio and PowerPoint within SharePoint
11. Develop standard project management processes using SharePoint’s BPM capabilities
12. Utilize SharePoint Dashboard to give management clear visibility into projects
13. Build Gantt Charts using MS Project and SharePoint
14. Create custom lists, calendars, contacts, and project tracking for each project
15. Utilize Web 2.0 capability in SharePoint 2007 like RSS and Wikis to increase project communication and efficiency
16. Establish project tracking guidelines through SharePoint 2007 on all your projects
17. Establish an online project archive for instant access to project history
18. Create customized SharePoint Dashboards for project overviews
19. Customize project information to target key project stakeholders
20. Use SharePoint Sites and Workspaces for project organization

I. SharePoint as a Project Management Information System

A. What is a PMIS?
B. Why SharePoint?
C. SharePoint’s Collaboration Features

Hands-On Lab:
Prepare the proper configurations for using SharePoint in your organization

II: Creating a PMIS System

A. Creating the SharePoint PMIS

1. Presenting a project management methodology
2. Identifying relevant organizational processes
3. Setting up sites with new and existing templates
4. Configuring basic PMIS features
5. Performing initial site administrative tasks
   

B. Managing Users and Permissions

1. Defining an organizational structure
2. Determining project stakeholders and communications requirements
3. Building a communication plan
4. Assigning site memberships
   

C. Customizing the PMIS Structure

1. Planning the information architecture
2. Classifying content
3. Generating custom lists for the PMIS
   a. Issue Lists
   b. Contacts
   c. Calendars
   d. Project Tracking
   e. Custom Lists
4. Supporting multiple document types
   
   

Hands-On Labs:

• Create a SharePoint project site
• Configure site options
• Configure permissions, assign team members to the site
• Customize the PMIS structure
• Integrate Microsoft Project with SharePoint
• Contacts
  — Generating custom lists for the PMIS
  — Calendars
  — To Do Lists
  — Issues Lists
  — Configuring Document Libraries
  
  

III: Enabling Team Collaboration with SharePoint

A. The challenges facing collaborative efforts

1. Real-Time Collaboration
2. Collaboration with remote users
3. Support for offline collaboration
4. Performing a needs assessment
5. Selecting and designing the appropriate solution
   

B. Implementing SharePoint’s Collaboration Features

1. Content Management Features
   a. Enabling version control
   b. Document check-in/check-out
   c. Content Approval
   
2. Polling the team with surveys
3. Discussion Forums
4. Utilizing Wikis
5. Document Workspaces
   
   

Hands-On Labs:

• Enabling and configuring content mgmt features
  
• Create discussion forums, surveys, and wikis
  
• Create document workspaces
  
  

IV: Tracking Projects with SharePoint

A. Monitoring the Project

1. Establishing Project Tracking Guidelines
2. Documenting a Risk Management Process
3. Keeping up-to-date with Automated Alerts and RSS
   

B. Tracking Project Progress

1. Assigning project tasks with the Project Task List
2. Updating the Issues List
3. Locating Specific Project Information with Search
   

C. Dealing with Deviations

1. Determining Change Control procedures
2. Understanding the three-state workflow
3. Re-evaluating the Project Schedule
   
   

Hands-On Labs:

• Set up automated alerts for project status
  
• Subscribing to RSS updates
  
• Working with project task lists
  
• Updating the issues list
  
• Searching your project for vital information
  
  

V: Working with Business Intelligence

A. Distributing Project Status to Stakeholders

1. Forecasting with KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
2. Filtering Project information with Custom Views
   

B. Creating Management Dashboards with SharePoint WebParts

C. Working with Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets

1. Importing data from Excel Spreadsheets
2. Exporting data to an Excel Spreadsheet
   
   

Hands-On Labs:

• Distributing project status to stakeholders
• Lab forecasting with KPIs
• Create custom views for information
• Creating a Mgmt Dashboard with SharePoint WebParts
• Import and Export data using Microsoft Excel
  
  

VI: Establishing Processes and Standards with SharePoint

A. Business Process Management

1. Optimize processes and services with SharePoint
2. Automate processes and services with SharePoint
   
   

Hands-On Lab:
Build business process automation using a three state workflow

VII: Managing Meetings with Meeting Workspaces

A. Understanding Meeting Workspaces and their Components

1. Meeting Agendas
2. Documents
3. Action Items
4. Schedules
5. Contacts and Stakeholders
   

B. Integrating Microsoft Outlook with SharePoint

Hands-On Labs:

• Develop meeting workspaces
• Utilize a meeting workspace with Outlook
  
  

VIII: Working with Microsoft Access

A. Why Microsoft Access?
B. Converting and publishing existing Access databases
C. Creating new Access databases

Hands-On Labs:

• Migrate existing Microsoft Access projects and expose them through SharePoint's web-based user interface.

IX: Creating a PMO View

A. Rolling-Up Project Information
B. Customizing Information and Views
C. Creating a master project calendar
D. Designing a Project Manager dashboard

Hands-On Labs:

• Use existing capabilities to "roll-up" data form your projects and create a dashboard for project managers, sponsors and stakeholders.
• Create a dashboard that allows users to follow and manage their project tasks from a single page, without having to jump from project to project.

X: Concluding a Project

A. Transferring Lessons Learned
B. Archiving the SharePoint PMIS
C. Creating Templates for Future Projects

• Project Managers
• Business Analysts
• Operation Managers
• Team Leads
• Product Managers
• SharePoint Power Users
• Marketing Managers
• IT Managers
• Data Analysts
• PMO Managers/Directors