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Do You Need Project Server?
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sets up new users in the Project Server database with the privileges that
organization management deems appropriate. The next chapter of this mini-
book describes the role of the Project Server administrator in more detail.
Do You Need Project Server?
You might have been managing multiple projects for a long time now, and
you might have been managing them effectively, too. So, the question might
arise, “Do I really need Project Server?”
To determine whether Project Server can help you, ask yourself the follow-
ing questions:
Has your organization identified a need to track projects more accu-
rately or use resources more efficiently?
Does your organization manage many different projects using the same
resources?
Has your organization determined that the time of project managers and
resources would be used more efficiently if resources could record their
time directly in the project schedule instead of providing it to the proj-
ect manager, who then updates the schedule?
Do your users need access to project data anywhere in the world?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, Project Server can help you.
The more “yes” answers you gave, the more likely it us that your organiza-
tion can benefit from using Project Server.
Planning the Implementation of Project Server
To successfully implement Project Server, you need to plan for the needs of
your organization. You need to assess where your organization is today and
where it plans to go. You need to identify the players, their needs, and their
roles in the process. You need to figure out what needs to be done, who has
the skills and availability to do it, when it needs to be done, and what else
depends on it getting done.
To summarize, implementing Project Server is a project. You should treat it
as such, identifying the tasks that you need to accomplish, estimating the
work needed to accomplish them, identifying task dependencies, and assign-
ing resources to the tasks.
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