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