MS EPM and TFS

Solution for Enterprise Project Mgmt with Application Life Cycle

Mgmt

Managing Complex Projects and Applications

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Business Need – Project Governance

Project Management Process Maturity

Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution

EPM Dashboards

EPM Deployment Architecture

Application Life Cycle Management Product

EPM & ALM Integrated Solution

Project Governance to meet business objectives

3

Primary focus of Project Governance is Elimination of project failures

Prime Goals of PMO Group are

“Doing the right projects”

“Doing the projects right” – every time

Project Health Visibility at all levels - data drill down capability

4

Global CEO

Regional Head 1

BU Head 1

PM 1

Project 1

Project 2

PM2

BU Head 2

PM 1

Project 1

Project 2

PM2

Regional Head 2

BU Head 1

PM 1 PM2

BU Head 2

PM 1

Project 1

Project 2

PM2

EPM also provides granular level project status tracking for project sponsors - CIO & CEO

Project Health Assessment - Key Questions

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Project Progress against approved budget and timelines

Note: Use Gantt Chart, CPM and EVA Techniques to better manage projects

Roadmap to organization maturity on PPM

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Project Portfolio Management (PPM)

Microsoft EPM – Product Features

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Single platform for all stakeholders to collaborate on project tasks & reports

Mange all project initiatives, proposals, projects, programs & portfolios

Maintain master resource repository and manage resource sharing

Track resource availability & utilization across projects & programs

Manage all project issues, risks, documents, checklists & forms centrally

Project, Program & Portfolio level reporting & dashboards

Real time project performance visibility against project baselines and

forecasts

Compliance to organization project mgmt processes

Global Projects collaboration

Project Performance Dashboards

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EPM Dashboards

EPM - Project Summary Snapshot

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Budget Overruns

Schedule Overruns

Note: Project Quality Status can also be pulled from TFS or other systems.

EPM - Project Views

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Multiple Project Views

EPM - Projects Distribution Snapshot

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Projects counts by state & project location

Charts To visually show data

EPM - Project Work Snapshot

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Baseline work hours for external projects

Actual work hours

EPM - Resource Distribution Snapshot

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Resources available in different departments

EPM - Resource Usage Snapshot

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Resources Actual Work hours project wise

PPM – Project Portfolio Analysis

MS EPM Solution – Deployment

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PM

Team

Integration with Team Foundation Server (TFS) to sync up work items

Complete IT Projects Health Mgmt Solution: PPM integrated with ALM

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Executives and other business stakeholders need objective, actionable data to maximize the business value of their organization's application portfolio.

With the combined power of Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) frameworks, stakeholders and decision-makers gain a comprehensive and up-to-date view of application costs and benefits, enabling them to manage the organization's application portfolio like a business—for the benefit of the business.

Director on the SharePoint Product Management team at Microsoft

Team Foundation Server - ALMMicrosoft Team Foundation Server

Team Foundation Server (TFS) from Microsoft is an integrated solution for collaboration between different disciplines within software development.

MS TFS and EPM Functions Map

Schedule Mgmt

Resource Mgmt

Project Reporting

Demand Mgmt

Portfolio Selection

Issues Mgmt

Risks Mgmt

Portfolio Reporting

Program Mgmt

Team Work Spaces

Timesheet Mgmt

Financial Mgmt

Project & Portfolio Management Application Lifecycle Mgmt

Workflows & Forms

Code Version Control

Team Builds

Work Items

Test cases

Testing Results

Quality Reporting

Project Documents

Configuration Mgmt

Summary

Organizations running application projects with large dispersed global teams should implement MS EPM Product along with MS TFS product to plan, monitor projects along with application life cycle management product (MS TFS).

With such a integrated solution each task and deliverable on project can be managed well with ability to provide reports on all aspects of project execution.

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Jaiveer Singh, PMP

A practitioner of Analytics, Information Modelling, Enterprise Project\Program\ Portfolio Management, Operational Productivity & Execution Management.

He has also setup PMO groups, PM Forums and led enterprise project management products implementation initiatives at global scale for MNCs.

He also writes articles/ blogs on project management, business intelligence, social analytics and conducts workshops on productivity & planning related software products like MS Excel, MS Project, Axure RP, Mind Map etc for the management community.