Thursday, April 15, 2010

Summary of Project Server 2007’s ‘out of the box’ Collaboration and Management Tools

Status Reports
Provide the ability to automatically compile team reports from individual responses.

Automated Alerts and Reminders
All users can set their own alerts and reminders and managers can set reminders for their resources. (Resources can opt out of alerts set by managers, but they can’t opt out of reminders!)

Outlook Integration provides integration to the calendar and task list.

Delegation can be enabled for a team to delegate work to each other (with project manager approval).

Ad hoc Reporting from data grids in PWA or export to Excel.

Issues
Project Server 2007 can generate flags which link and highlight issues, risks, tasks documents and other items, in the project centre or in project views.

Risks can be tracked in the Issues list.

Documents
Each project has it’s own document library within the project workspace. Documents can also be linked to tasks, issues, risks and other documents.

Proposals which (via MOSS 2007) can be submitted for approval. This functionality enables demand management of future projects.

Resource Plans for estimating future resourcing requirements.

Activity Plans to track ongoing work

Timesheets are powerful new feature in Project Server 2007. Timesheets can have a full audit trail and can be used to drive task progress.

Deliverables can be cross linked to be consumed by other projects. A workflow can be applied to the deliverables in MOSS 2007.

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