Designing an Enterprise Project Management Solution with Microsoft Products and Technologies (74-131)

Exam Objectives and Sub-Objectives:

1. Identify the current and planned project management environment. Considerations include:

• The business problems you are trying to solve
• The maturity of the project management environment
• PMO structure
• Scheduling
• Planning
• Reporting
• Tracking of costs and resources
• The Risk Management strategy
• Identify the Security Needs
  
  2. Identify the organizational structure and constraints. Considerations include:
   
• User Profiles
• Stakeholder Analysis
• Training/User Education
• Regulatory requirements
• Financial Situation
• Gather localization requirements for language and currency
  
  3. Identify the current and planned IT environments. Considerations include scalability, extensibility, reliability, and availability requirements
   
• Identify the integration requirements for current and planned line of business (LOB) applications. Possible applications include:
• Resource and human resources HR
• Timesheets
• Financial
• Messaging
• Integration with Intranet/Extranet
  
  4. Analyze the business requirements for an enterprise project management solution
   
• Perform a gap analysis. Considerations include the difference between where you are and where you want to go, and the migration requirements
• Identify and track risks
• Evaluate project management processes
• Analyze implementation constraints
• Analyze project metrics
• Analyze impact on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) (help desk, etc.)
• Analyze Return on Investment (ROI)
• Design the EPM Solution
• Identify appropriate product features based on requirements
• Create the appropriate network infrastructure for an EPM solution
• Create model configurations for Microsoft Office Project Server and services, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft
• Internet Services, Microsoft Office SharePoint technologies, Internet Explorer, and clients
• Create and document enterprise features and templates. Considerations include:
• Reporting requirements
• Enterprise Outline codes
• Resource breakdown structure
• Generic resources/skills
• Standard calendars
• System defaults
  
  5. Create and document the security configuration
   
• Create user profile work flow diagrams
• Build a prototype and validate against business requirements
• Planning an EPM solution deployment
• Assemble a deployment team
• Manage and evaluate the project planning process. Considerations include:
• Budget plan
• Communications plan
• Support plans
• Training plans
• Security plan
• Capacity plan
• Software development plan
• Test plan
  
  6. Create a migration plan
   
• Create a deployment plan
• Define rollout phases
• Identify deployment dependencies
• Create Deployment Schedule
• Create a Pilot plan
• Document the project schedule by using Microsoft Office Project Professional
• Define success metrics
• Deploy an EPM solution
• Validate deployment met plan
• Validate solution met business requirements
   

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