Product Description
Surrounding the performance of a single project are activities that support and direct the organization and its ability to perform multiple projects in a complex, changing environment. These activities include Ongoing Improvement, the effort to learn from past experience and improve the way you perform and manage projects; Portfolio Management & Governance, the decision making needed to select, initiate and continue the right projects and to manage the optimum use of scarce resources; and Multi-project Management, the process for looking across all of the projects being performed and managing them as a group to avoid conflicts and promote synergy.
Effective portfolio management and multi-project management are among the most critical factors for successful projects. They address many of the root causes of chronic problems in projects, such as the chronic over burdening of resources and constant priority shifts that create confusion and impact productivity.Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 helps you stay informed, keep project teams aligned, and control project work, schedules, and finances. Integration with familiar Microsoft Office system programs, powerful reporting options, and guided planning, wizards, and templates help you become more productive.
Features Client Access License!
Project Professional 2007 includes all the innovative capabilities available in Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007, as well as a Client Access License (CAL), which enables connection to Office Project Server 2007 and thus provides additional collaborative enterprise project management capabilities.
Understand and Control Project Schedules!
Project 2007 helps you effectively track and analyze projects with a better understanding of the schedule and impact of changes, while also allowing you to benefit from better financial control and richer analytics. This application now offers the ability to quickly determine factors that are affecting task dates and easily trace the source of issues. Specifically, improved Task Drivers help you determine the factor (such as task dependency, calendar constraints, schedule date, or vacation time) driving the start date of the task, so you can follow a chain of factors back to find the root cause of a particular delay. Project 2007 also automatically highlights all items that shift as a result of the most recent changes made. You can even undo actions or sets of actions from macros, and that gives you the ability to test several what-if scenarios in order to fully understand the implications of each choice while making scope alterations.
Flexible Project Tracking!
Project 2007 delivers flexible project tracking and analysis by helping you to compute and track core metrics unique to your project by defining custom fields based on your formulas. And to help keep you on track, graphical indicators can alert you when specific conditions are met.
Improved Views and Sharing!
With new enhancements to the Calendar interface and the addition of 3-D Gantt bars, Project 2007 lets you create even more visually effective reports. When it's time to share them, use Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services workspaces (requires Microsoft Windows Server 2003 or later), which are integrated into the Tasks pane of the Project Guide, a step-by-step, interactive aid that helps you set up projects, manage tasks and resources, track status, and report project information. This helps you better organize work and people to help ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.
Easily Control Finances!
Project 2007 features a budget field that lets you assign budgets to projects and programs. The new Cost resource type improves cost estimation and tracking, thanks to enhancements like more predefined fields, such as cost code, that map to financial fields tracked in project accounting systems.
25 new templates!
In Project 2007, about 25 new templates to cover additional project scenarios have been added.To give you an idea, these are some of the new templates that will available in Project 2007:
- 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
Full Version for Windows, Priced for Academic Users
