The Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 EPM Solution can significantly support an organisation’s Project Management capability. It provides organisations with the potential to communicate timely, relevant and up to date project information to users across all hierarchical levels, from Team Members at the base of the organization to Executives at the very top. In addition to this facility, it also invests the organisation with the ability to report and analyse project and resource performance by innumerable criteria making project plans a powerful means to report key business critical information.
This potential can be both a blessing and a curse to the project managers within an organisation.
Organisations that have leapt straight in and not invested time in preparing for the adoption of Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 have learnt some painful and expensive lessons and in some cases have failed to derive any business benefit at all from their investment in the solution. To avoid you encountering the same problems should you be considering adopting the Microsoft Office Project Server 2003 EPM Solution the following have been identified as crucial Success Factors for an EPM deployment:
1: Develop a multidisciplinary team
2: Actively engage the organisation’s executives
3: Develop a strong business case for the EPM Initiative
4: Allocate sufficient up-front time
5: Develop clear and complete business goals, requirements, and usage scenarios
6: Involve representatives from all user groups
7: Conduct a multi-staged rollout
8: Provide continuous communication
9: Test the installed hardware and software configuration
10: Prepare the users for the deployment
11: Train users at all experience levels – using customised instructions
12: Prepare to monitor the new environment
Prepared by:
Dominic Moss
Pojectability
www.projectability.co.uk
