Project Management Templates - IT Project Manager
Manage IT projects with SharePoint and MSF (Microsoft Solutions Framework) v3.0
Business Challenge
Managing IT projects to time, budget and high quality has long been a struggle for organizations. Add into the mix the speed at which business is being done and changes these days and then throw in the changes in technology and it just got more difficult. Organizations are working more and more with other globally dispersed organizations (suppliers, partners, customers, etc.). IT projects can no longer rely on the informal process and communications that characterized the projects of the past. Most organizations recognize this, but are so busy with the day job that they find it difficult to solve this issue. Easy solutions have not appeared to answer this tough challenge.
BrightWork Solution
The IT Project Manager template delivered with pmPoint is an out of the box MSF based SharePoint template, designed to enable organizations and teams to efficiently manage IT projects. BrightWork is the first SharePoint IT template based on a formal project management model – the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) v3, which in turn was influenced by the PMI PMBOK – Project Management Institute Project Management Body of Knowledge. Since it is based on SharePoint it is fast to deploy and easy to customize.
BrightWork extends the functionality of Windows SharePoint Services through the addition of a pre-built template for IT project management, with customized site definitions, templates and interconnected web parts which can be utilized in any SharePoint site. BrightWork has created a project template that mirrors the Microsoft Solutions Framework v3 - a proven IT project management framework.
This pre-built template includes support for the most common IT process / deliverables (e.g. teams, roles, phases, milestones, deliverables, issues, risks, change requests, etc.) and a host of deliverables for the various project phases (vision scope, functional spec, requirements, reviews, bugs, test, etc.). The IT template provides usable and repeatable mechanisms for managing IT projects. Getting a new IT project up and running is as easy as filling a form. This project web is then highly customizable to match specific project and organization requirements. Successful projects can be turned into templates so as to retain best practices and lessons learnt.
The IT Project Manager template from BrightWork provides the fastest and easiest mechanism for organizations who want to use MSF and SharePoint to manage IT projects today.
Note - this template is also delivered in two forms - one that uses a Microsoft Project style project schedule and one that uses simpler flat SharePoint lists to manage work
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