What’s new in Project 2007?Presented by Ira Brown, President & CEO, Project Widgets, Inc.

Agenda Welcome (Ira Brown)

MPA Membership Benefits (Ernest Sarao, Jr.)

Introduction to Microsoft Project 2007 (Bob Cantwell)

Feature Presentation – “In-depth Preview of Microsoft Project 2007” (Ira Brown)

Discussion & Wrap-up

Welcome MPA Philadelphia/Delaware Valley

Chapter is back! We encourage you to become a member

$119 membership rate $20 Application fee will be waived This offer will be good through November 30 https://lv0.net/Form/MPA/JoinMPASpecialOffer

Meetings will be every other month Our next meeting will be on January 29,

2007 We encourage your input!

Easily Create Enterprise Project PlansEasily Create Enterprise Project Plans

Project Documents, Issues/Risks & Project Documents, Issues/Risks & TasksTasks

Integration withIntegration withTools People KnowTools People Know

Projects, Tasks, Resources, Projects, Tasks, Resources, Portfolio Portfolio Items, operations, initiatives, fiscal Items, operations, initiatives, fiscal

periods, budgets, stage-gates, workflow periods, budgets, stage-gates, workflow rules, timesheetrules, timesheet

Team ParticipationTeam ParticipationExecutive ReportingExecutive Reporting

XML-basedXML-based APIAPI

The Microsoft Office EPM The Microsoft Office EPM SolutionSolutionThe Microsoft Office EPM The Microsoft Office EPM SolutionSolution

Project Web Access Project Professional

What’s new in Project 2007 Standard and Pro?

Multi-level undo - perfect if you make a mistake or want to conduct a “what-if” scenario.

3-D Gantt bars, change highlighting and background cell highlighting.

Task drivers - what is driving the start date of this task?

Visual Reports - Microsoft Office Excel and Microsoft Office Visio Professional to produce pivot tables and charts, graphs, and diagrams based on Project data.

Over 20 new project templates Annual Report Preparation Develop Skills Needs - Hiring Plan - Hiring Forecast Finance and Accounting System Implementation Human Resources Information System Implementation Marketing Campaign Planning Marketing Event Planning and Execution Performance Reviews Product Development Planning Product Evaluation Post Launch Six Sigma DMAIC Cycle SOX Compliance and Technology Options Strategic Merger or Acquisition Evaluation Vendor Evaluation and Consolidation Customer Feedback Monitoring Financial Service Offering Launch Internal Readiness Training ISO 9001 Management Review Managing Incoming Request For Quotes (RFQs) Vendor Request For Proposal (RFP) Solicitation

Vendor RFPSolution Template

Costs and Budgeting

Use Budget Tracking to define a budget at a high level (program or project) so the project manager can allocate funds and track costs against the budget.

Pre-defined financial fields, such as cost center, improve mapping to the financial fields tracked in project accounting systems.

Now planned and actual costs can be assigned to a task with Cost Resources, which also supports integration of Project with accounting systems.

What’s new in Project Web Access?

Interface is based entirely on Windows SharePoint Services – pages can be customized by adding or removing individual web parts.

Initiate Proposals and Activity plans Resource plans Improved handling of master projects Robust timesheet application independent

of projects and tasks Enhanced Outlook Integration Ability to define deliverables for a task Team Tasks can be assigned to a group of

resources

What’s new in Project Server?

Improved administration functions Unlimited Enterprise custom fields Users and Resources have been combined

into single entity More control over how workspaces get

provisioned for a project Server queuing Active cache Event handling engine Ability to define fiscal periods

Data Analysis

Portfolio Analyzer renamed “Data Analysis” Faster OLAP cube processing 11 pre-defined OLAP cubes

Project non-timephased Task non-timephased Two assignment cubes: non-timephased and timephased Two resource cubes: non-timephased and timephased Two timesheet cubes: Timesheet and EPM Timesheet Windows SharePoint Services: Risks, Issues, and Deliverables Three virtual cubes that combine data:

Combine data from the EPM cubes (Project, Task, Assignment, and Resource) with data from the Timesheet cubes

Combine data from the EPM cubes with data from the Windows SharePoint Services cubes

Portfolio Analyzer cube, for backward compatibility with reports in earlier versions

All baseline fields available in cube All new budget and cost fields available in cube All enterprise custom fields can be made

available in OLAP cube

Project Portfolio Server 2007

Objectively prioritize your business strategy

Measure and track portfolio performance

Analyze projects across multiple instances of Project Server