The Top 10 Reasons Your Manager is Going to Thank You For Using Microsoft Project

Raja NooriDoug Welsby

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What R U Trying to Solve? Our employees want to work

together from virtually anywhere.

I need the flexibility to manage without up-front infrastructure costs.

Our company can compete only if we align investment with business priorities.

We want more visibility and control over what people are working on.

Let Project Work 4 U

Improve IT management

Quickly innovate

Agility & control

Get started quickly

Access virtually anywhere

Take action

Improve communication

Discover & share information

Make data-driven decisions

Collaboration

Effectively manage resources

Improve governance & control

Flexible PPM

Action Hero!

Simple Guide

Your Team Can Get Started Quickly

Important steps to get started are identified.

Visual Cues

The Big Picture

See your plan right away with the timeline.

Organized

One location

Organize and complete all your work from one location.

Nothing New to learn

Familiar experiences

Work within familiar applications such as SharePoint.

Anytime AnywhereAction Hero!

Take action from Windows Phone, iPhone, iPad & Android devices.

BYOD

PWA

Access virtually anywhere

Rich scheduling capabilities in Project Web App (PWA).

Stream the most up-to-date version to different devices.

Click-2-Run

Project On Demand

Flexible

Effectively Manage Resources

Resource availability

See what your people are doing every day — even when people are working in SharePoint.

Compare demand to capacity

Effectively Manage

Resources

See all demand to accurately identify resource surpluses and deficits.

Team PlannerSimply drag and drop to plan or adjust resourcing needs.

Time Sheets

Administrative lines enable people to record time for everyday work and non-working time.

Visual workflows

Improve governance

& control

Manage a project's lifecycle through each stage by utilizing Visio to enable the creation and management of visual workflows in SharePoint Designer.

Improve governance & control

Manage demand

Promote SharePoint (items) lists in PWA to drive accountability and control.

Improve governance & control

Gain control

Define workflows to ensure progression or rejection through each stage of a project’s lifecycle.

Optimize Portfolio

Evaluate portfolio investment and select optimal project portfolios.

Scenario modeling

Collaborator

Instantly communicate

Improve Collaboration & CommunicationDesigned to work with Lync - enabling real-time

conversation and instant messaging (IM) from your project.

Organize email

Strengthen everyday Communication

Team mailboxes provide the latest project communication.

Save time

Share Information Easily

Communicate details effectively simply by copying and pasting.

Communicate status

Synchronize to Simplify

Enhanced synchronization between Project and SharePoint helps teams share details.

Discover and share information

Social Facilitate discussion and sharing to help people get projects and everyday work done.

Strengthen everyday collaboration

Project sites

One Stop Shop for all Project Info

The project site template provides people with everything they need to work on projects together.

Discover and share information

Effectively share

Share and discuss progress with others quickly.

Built in Chart

Collaborative decision making

Make Data Driven Decisions

Team members and trusted business partners are equipped with the information they need to make informed and data-driven choices.

Make data-driven decisions

Improve visibility

Strengthen everyday collaboration

Stay informed and make better decisions with portfolio, project and timeline views in PWA.

Make data-driven decisions

Business intelligence

Strengthen everyday collaboration Mine data and glean insight across a

collection of projects, a particular program or portfolio.

Make data-driven decisions

Rich reporting

Strengthen everyday collaboration

Rich reporting tools with a familiar Excel-like experience help you quickly and easily measure progress.

Increase agility and control

Improve IT management

Web-based management

Increase agility and control

A straight forward sign-up experience directly from the web gets you started quickly.

Project Online and Project Pro for Office 365 offer 24/7 service and support.

Improve IT management

Secure and available

Increase agility and control

Improve IT management

Simplified administration

Increase agility and control

Project offers an integrated admin experience with SharePoint so you can easily get set up, add resources, and adjust permissions.

Improve IT management

Business vs. IT settings

Increase agility and control

Manage business settings without requiring additional assistance from IT.

Find apps in the Office Store or SharePoint Store.

Quickly innovate

SharePoint store

Increase agility and control

Quickly develop and deliver innovative apps that address the unique needs of your business.

Quickly innovate

Deliver apps

Increase agility and control

Quickly innovate

Industry standards

Increase agility and control

Office 365 is compliant with world class industry standards verified by 3rd parties.

Bring together different disciplines such as ALM, NPD, and IPM.

Quickly innovate

Bring together disciplines

Increase agility and control

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