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Book X
Chapter 1
Understanding
Project Server
Planning the Implementation of Project Server
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To successfully implement Project Server, you should treat the project the
same way you would treat an information technology project. You should
assess requirements, design the system, and develop an implementation
strategy.
Defining requirements
When you assess requirements for an information technology project, you
focus on determining your organization’s direction and needs; the Project
Server design ultimately depends on the information that you gather.
On the team you set up to implement the system, you need people who are
good at gathering information, making design decisions, and managing imple-
mentation. You’ll find it helpful to include people who are experienced in using
enterprise project management systems. You need a mix of business people
and technical people to address the various facets of implementing Project
Server. The business people should include senior project managers and staff
with experience using Project. The technical people should include those
who are experienced in your company’s network architecture and hardware
configuration. To customize or automate Project Server functions, you should
include a technical person with skills in developing object models for Project.
Everyone on the team should be familiar with your company’s standards.
The team needs to set milestone dates and task durations for each of the fol-
lowing activities:
Identify the people who will approve the Project Server design
Identify staff members to interview
Create a requirements definition questionnaire
Conduct interviews
Calculate return on investment
As with any project, it’s important to identify the decision-makers as soon as
you start. If possible, include one or more of them on the team so that they
are a part of the process and they feel ownership for the system that you
ultimately design.
For interviews, identify staff members who fill the following roles:
Administrators: People who manage changes and access to the Project
Server database. The people who start the administrator job might ulti-
mately phase out of the job because the job functions change over time.
Initially, the administrator installs and sets up Project Professional,
Project Server, and SQL Server and may use both Project Server and SQL
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