Microsoft Project Management Tools: SharePoint 2013 and Project Server 2013

Project Management?

Project management is the process and activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals in scientific or daily problems.

Why using Project Management?

Using Project Management methods and strategies decrease risks, reduce costs and improve success rates of your projects!

What are the Business Needs?

• Rationalize investment
• Align work with strategic objectives
• Manage projects and resources effectively
• Gain visibility and control over projects

Microsoft has 3 tools to manage project:

• Microsoft Project: powerful and enhance way to manage a wide range of projects
• Microsoft Project Server: builds upon the Microsoft SharePoint Server – it provides a basis for Project Web Application pages, site admin., and authentication infrastructure for Project Server Users and Project Workspace.
  • Standard: keep projects organized and communicate progress with reports.
  • Professional: COLLABORATION with other in order to start-manage-deliver projects. Synchronization with SharePoint 2013 (2016 to be confirmed), that’s enable you to track status from anywhere./li>
  • Professional for Office 365: Work virtually anywhere – Go Online with flexible plans that help you quickly and easily sign up for the service that best fits your business need./li>
• Microsoft SharePoint: CMS to share, organize, discover, build and manage projects / data. This is a Collaboration tool.

Without any tools, managing a project could be worse, boring and inefficient.

You would better  … and think about a SOLUTION ! 

 Imagine 2 super products : peperoni and cheese… Both are just waiting
for you to make a great pizza  😮  !

What about Project and Sharepoint together???

As for Pizza, both mixed will for sure driving you to get a great Project Management Tool !
It will bring Success to manage your tasks and timelines easily.

For Management

• Manage projects as SharePoint task lists
• Manage projects with FULL CONTROL

For Collaboration

• Teams connected
• Easy way to create reports and specified dashboards

SharePoint + Project allows:

• creating Site dedicated to project as central repository for project content
• importing Sharepoint task list as an Entreprise Project for full Project Server control
• synchronization and storage locally or in Sharepoint Library

The requirements for an installation are:

Project Server 2013

• Windows server 2012 or a 2008 R2 SP1 (minimum)
• SQL Server 2012 or 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1
• SharePoint 2013

SharePoint 2013

• Windows server 2012 or a 2008 R2 SP1 (minimum)
• SQL Server 2012 or 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1

CONCLUSION

Great things are done by a serie of small things brought together, use
 SharePoint 2013 and Project Server 2013 TOGETHER to bring Success !