Book description
If you were to analyze your team’s performance on a typical project, you’d be surprised how much time is wasted on non-productive tasks. This hands-on guide shows you how to work more efficiently by organizing and managing projects with SharePoint 2010. You’ll learn how to build a Project Management Information System (PMIS), customized to your project, that can effectively coordinate communication and collaboration among team members.
Written by a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Microsoft SharePoint MVP with 15 years of IT project management experience, each chapter includes step-by-step guides as well as workshops that help you practice what you learn.
- Build a SharePoint PMIS that requires little assistance from your IT/IS department
- Define access permissions for project stakeholders and team members
- Centralize project artifacts and keep track of document history with version control
- Track project schedules, control changes, and manage project risks
- Automate project reporting and use web parts to generate on-demand status reports
- Integrate project management tools such as Excel, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, and Outlook
- Apply your knowledge of PMIS techniques by working with a case study throughout the book
"If you are a project manager looking for a technology-based, easily implemented, and usable solution for project communications, document management, and general project organization, this book is for you!"
–Susan Weese, PgMP, President and Founder, Rhyming Planet
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Table of contents
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SharePoint 2010 for Project Management
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- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Preface
- 1. Project Kickoff
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2. Setting Up the PMIS
- How Will You Organize Your PMIS?
- Using Site Templates
- Creating a SharePoint 2010 Site
- Workshop 2.1: Establishing the SharePoint 2010 PMIS Foundation
- Workshop 2.1 Debriefing
- Customizing the PMIS
- Workshop 2.2: Updating Your Site’s Regional Settings
- Workshop 2.2 Debriefing
- Best Practices Checklist
- Summary
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3. Adding PMIS Components
- Using SharePoint Lists
- Creating SharePoint Lists
- Workshop 3.1: Creating and Populating Lists
- Workshop 3.1 Debriefing
- Using Libraries
- Creating a Document Library (a How-To)
- Populating a Document Library
- Workshop 3.2: Creating and Populating a Document Library
- Workshop 3.2 Debriefing
- Organizing Project Information
- Best Practices Checklist
- Summary
- 4. Adding Stakeholders to the PMIS
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5. Supporting Team Collaboration
- Enabling Document Management Solutions
- Overview of Check-Out/Check-In
- Overview of Version History
- Overview of Content Approval
- Workshop 5.1: Updating a Project Document
- Workshop 5.1 Debriefing
- Facilitating Team Collaboration
- Wikis
- Discussion Boards
- Document Workspaces
- Best Practices Checklist
- Summary
- 6. Project Tracking
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7. Project Reporting
- Custom Views
- Workshop 7.1: Creating a Custom View
- Workshop 7.1 Debriefing
- Using Web Parts for Interactive Reporting
- Workshop 7.2: Maximizing Project Reporting with Web Parts
- Workshop 7.2 Debriefing
- Subscribing to Alerts
- Using Meeting Workspaces
- Workshop 7.3: Creating a Meeting Workspace
- Workshop 7.3 Debriefing
- Best Practices Checklist
- Summary
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8. Integrating PM Tools
- Integrating Microsoft Project into SharePoint
- Workshop 8.1: Using Microsoft Project
- Workshop 8.1 Debriefing
- Using Microsoft Excel and SharePoint
- Creating a Custom List from an Existing Excel Spreadsheet
- Exporting an Excel Spreadsheet to SharePoint As a Custom List
- Synchronizing Excel Tables with a SharePoint List
- Workshop 8.2: Synchronizing Excel with SharePoint
- Workshop 8.2 Debriefing
- Best Practices Checklist
- Summary
- 9. Project Closing
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
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Product information
- Title: SharePoint 2010 for Project Management, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2012
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781449327705
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