| Introduction | | | | members can accept their individual |
| | | | assignments and indicate the time taken |
| Effective tracking and management of projects | | | | against the allocated assignment. |
| is necessary to achieve your project goals. | | | | |
| Microsoft Office Project 2007 provides | | | | Efficient Communication and Collaboration |
| enhanced tools to help you track and control | | | | |
| project work, schedules, and finances. You | | | | You can use Project 2007 to efficiently |
| can also integrate Project 2007 tools with | | | | communicate and collaborate with project |
| Microsoft Office applications. | | | | teams. With the growing geographical and |
| | | | cultural diversity in organizations, it is |
| Features of Project 2007 | | | | important to promote teamwork and maintain a |
| | | | common goal. Project 2007 allows knowledge |
| Project 2007 provides various features that | | | | sharing across teams and helps them work in |
| help your organization gain better control | | | | collaboration for achieving project goals. |
| and visibility across all projects. This | | | | Project 2007 is adaptable and accommodates |
| leads to an enhanced.decision-making process | | | | quick adjustment in activities in case of |
| and an improved alignment with business | | | | updates. |
| strategies. This, in turn, increases | | | | |
| operational efficiency. Project 2007 helps | | | | Project 2007 also enables you to use |
| you plan work and manage resources | | | | different formats for presenting information. |
| effectively. It also enables efficient | | | | In Project 2007, you can format project data |
| communication and collaboration. In addition, | | | | and present it in the form of reports, |
| it helps leverage existing data and provides | | | | charts, PDF documents, and one-page printable |
| quick access to information. | | | | schedules. To create reports, you can use |
| | | | ready-to-use report templates present in |
| Effective Work Planning | | | | Project 2007. You can also create your own |
| | | | templates and share them with other users. |
| Project 2007 helps you efficiently plan work | | | | |
| ranging from small projects to large-scale | | | | Quick Access to Information |
| operations. You can use Project 2007 to plan | | | | |
| schedules, allocate resources, manage | | | | With Project 2007, you can access information |
| budgets, and set realistic expectations for | | | | easily and quickly. In Project 2007, |
| your team, management, and customers. You can | | | | consolidating data is simple and time saving |
| easily track data and estimates such as | | | | because you can group data by any predefined |
| percent complete, budget versus actual cost, | | | | or custom fields. This ensures quick |
| and earned value by using a set of predefined | | | | information retrieval when required. |
| metrics. | | | | Moreover, in Project 2007, you can track |
| | | | changes in various versions of a project |
| Besides tracking data, Project 2007 enables | | | | easily. This helps track the scope and |
| you to track project performance during the | | | | schedule changes. |
| entire duration of the project. It also | | | | |
| enables you to save project snapshots in | | | | You can customize Project 2007 according to |
| baselines and track project progress. For a | | | | the specifications of your project. You can |
| quick understanding of the project management | | | | also select custom display fields and modify |
| process, Project 2007 provides an interactive | | | | toolbars, formulas, graphical indicators, and |
| Microsoft Project Guide with step-by-step | | | | reports. In addition, you can efficiently |
| help. In addition, it provides intuitive | | | | export data from Project 2007 to Microsoft |
| toolbars and menus that help you learn | | | | Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, and |
| project management fundamentals. | | | | Microsoft Office PowerPoint by using the Copy |
| | | | Picture to Office Wizard. |
| Effective Resource Management | | | | |
| | | | Effective Leveraging of Existing Data |
| You can use Project 2007 to mange your | | | | |
| resources, so that the organization can | | | | Project 2007 enables quick leveraging of data |
| achieve its long-term goals. An inaccurate | | | | across different platforms. With its built-in |
| estimation of long-term workloads and | | | | integration with Office 2007, Project 2007 |
| capacity can result in unplanned recruitment | | | | allows users to work with the Microsoft |
| and quick lay-off cycles, knowledge loss, | | | | Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) |
| higher overhead, and low employee morale. | | | | Solution when working with Office Outlook or |
| Project 2007 provides visibility in work | | | | Office SharePoint. In addition, Project 2007 |
| transactions, timesheets, and resource | | | | is integrated with other Office applications. |
| capabilities. You can build resource plans to | | | | This helps convert the existing task lists in |
| coordinate the recruiting and outsourcing | | | | Office Excel and Office Outlook into |
| strategies with long-term business | | | | ready-to-use project plans with minimum |
| objectives. | | | | efforts. |
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| Project 2007 enables you to assign resources | | | | Project 2007 also enables you to add |
| to tasks and manage conflicts over allocated | | | | resources to projects from Microsoft Active |
| assignments easily. You can allocate work to | | | | Directory or from a Microsoft Exchange Server |
| the entire team collectively instead of | | | | address book. |
| assigning work to individual resources. Team | | | | |