The best-in-class portfolio management techniques available in Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 are integrated into Project Server 2010, providing you with a single server with an intuitive user interface that offers the correct tools to support the complete project life cycle. By bringing together top-down portfolio management techniques with bottom-up project management capabilities, Project Server 2010 assists organisations to identify and pick optimal portfolios, and successfully deliver the projects to realise results.
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Project Server 2010 workflow capabilities help organisations define the correct governance processes to effectively manage all types of work—project and operational—right through the work life cycle. Establishing checkpoints within the process and identifying individuals with the correct approval authority assists drive accountability, increases awareness, and provides an auditable record of all investment decisions. The new Proposal Status Page assists the Project Management Office (PMO / PSO) effectively communicate the governance processes and train employees to drive adoption, satisfaction, and compliance.
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Project Server 2010 gives you a one-stop demand management portal to help streamline and standardise the initiation process for all types of work. Centralising project and operational activities in a central system provides organisations with visibility across all requests and in-flight initiatives, so it is easy to remove duplicate requests and quickly review the effect on available resources. The flexibility of Project Server 2010 assists the PMO / PSO provide departments with a level of autonomy, while standardising the repository of data to help enterprise reporting.
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The tradition ofauthorising projects on a first-come, first-served basis are over! ProjectServer 2010 includes best-practice portfolio selection techniques that provide allow organisations to implement a wiser rather than emotional approach to investment selection. The new portfolio management and analytical capabilities assist execs to do more with less and impartially validate the investment alignment with strategic priorities.
- Effectively prioritise and communicate business strategy.
Project Server 2010 assists executives to dissect their strategy into actionable, measurable, and discrete business drivers. The perceptive pairwise assessment assists to ensure that organisations objectively prioritise business drivers, drive executive consensus, and get a relative score that is used to measure the strategic contribution of competing requests. Consolidating and prioritising business drivers within Project Server 2010 assists to convey the strategy in actionable terms, and provide a blueprint that can be understood and deployed by departmental managers.
- Run what-if analyses under varying constraints.
Project Server 2010 assists organisations prioritise and consider projects from various dimensions—strategic value, financial value, risk—to provide objective, like for like comparisons. The intuitive Cost Constraint Analysis view assists analysts to swiftly model varying budget restraints and use a advanced optimisation algorithm to recommend the project portfolio that aligns best with the business strategy. The Efficient Frontier, Strategic Alignment, and Compare Scenario views present powerful insights that assist executives identify tradeoffs, and evaluate and refine portfolio selection.
- Proactively reschedule projects to maximise resource utilisation.
The new capacity planning capability in Project Server 2010 assists analysts proactively review the impact of proposed portfolio on the resource pool, and model scenarios to improve utilisation across the planning horizon. The powerful Resource Constraint Analysis view offers a holistic portal to help organisations envisage resource shortfalls and under utilisation, change project start dates to better utilise available employees, and model headcount decisions to identify optimal hiring strategies.
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Project Server 2010 empowers a mobile workforce by taking the power of Microsoft Project Professional 2010 to the browser with Web-based project scheduling. Project managers can now make use of powerful abilities including Change Highlighting and Multi-Level Undo without opening their copy of Project Professional 2010. Web-based scheduling offers occasional and full time project managers with the flexibility to swiftly build simple and complex schedules online, and easily modify the plan from anywhere through the Internet.
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Project Server 2010 provides organisations with the flexibility they need to unify time capture, streamline processes, automate task management, and enhance the accuracy of project forecasting. Time reporting capabilities have been further improved in Project Server 2010 to offer a new Single Entry Mode to combine time and task status updates. The Web-based user interface for timesheet entry and task management has been standardised to enhance the user experience and reduce the learning curve. Project Server 2010 communicates with Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 to ensure that team members can easily receive and update their project tasks in Microsoft Outlook® 2010 and Outlook Web App.
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Project Server 2010 provides a powerful reporting infrastructure together with flexible Business Intelligence tools to help guarantee that organisations proactively increase visibility across their project portfolios, so they can react quickly, and can generate custom reports. Project Server 2010 uses the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform, including Excel® Services, PerformancePoint® Services, Visio® Services, PowerPivot for Excel, SQL Reporting Services, and more, to present organisations with a all-inclusive solution that will develop with their reporting needs. The solution provides non-technical resources with recognisable tools to effortlessly create reports and configure powerful audience-based dashboards, while providing technical resources with more advanced capabilities to create multifaceted views.
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Project Server 2010 is exceptionally flexible and can be rapidly configured to meet an organisation’s unique requirements and business processes. Project Server 2010 simplifies administration through an enhanced console that combines both project and portfolio management capabilities. New features including User Delegation and Project Permissions also reduce the responsibility on the administrator by empowering user action. Project Server 2010 assists to ensure that PMOs and administrators spend less time managing the system and concentrate more on project and portfolio delivery and performance.
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Project Server 2010 connects with related Microsoft technologies, such as SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Office 2010, and Exchange Server 2010, to present a powerful and familiar work management platform. This assists to ensure team members can select their ideal productivity tools to easily receive tasks and provide status updates to project stakeholders with minimum effort and administrative time. This flexibility helps drive productivity and assists to ensure that project managers and PMOs can effectively collect the essential data to drive enterprise reporting and resource management.
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Project Server 2010 provides an open, extensible, and programmable platform to help ensure that organisations can easily develop custom solutions and effectively integrate with line-of business systems. As Project Server 2010 is based on SharePoint Server 2010, developers benefit from a consistent and robust platform to rapidly build and deploy solutions using recognisable tools and services, including Windows Communication Foundation, Business Connectivity Services, Microsoft Visual Studio® 2010, and Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010.
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