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Planning the Implementation of Project Server
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Server tools to meet the needs of users. Eventually, the administrator
role migrates to a maintenance function, where knowledge of Project
Server administrative functions is the only prerequisite.
✦ Executives: People who view reports on projects and resources.
✦ Portfolio managers: People who are familiar with company standards
and can manage the Enterprise global template.
✦ Project managers: People who prepare project plans and monitor proj-
ect progress.
✦ Resource managers: People who delegate work to team members and
monitor project progress and resource utilization.
✦ Team members: People to whom work is assigned.
To effectively interview, the team should create a questionnaire that focuses
on obtaining information about how people work. To gather information for
your questionnaire, evaluate the reports that your company currently uses to
record project performance. Analyze these reports to identify the resources
and projects that are or should be included on the report. Evaluate how tasks,
projects, and resources are categorized on the reports and note who uses
each report.
When you conduct interviews, make sure that you include more than one
person in each role because two people filling the same role do things differ-
ently and potentially have different needs.
Implementing Project Server will require software and role-based training
for resources, and it might also require investments in hardware. Because of
the investment required to implement Project Server, you should calculate
your return on investment to assess the costs and benefits of implementing
Project Server.
Designing the system
Using the information that you gathered while defining requirements, you
should be able to identify the features in Project Server that you want to
implement. In addition, the implementation team must also address issues
that aren’t directly related to the design of the Project Server database. For
example, the team should
✦ Evaluate the technology environment
✦ Address special needs
✦ Establish and/or enforce organizational standards
✦ Plan for training
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