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Alain Fournier

• Alain’s primary focus is understanding business drivers, and educating on new

business approaches that help drive organizational groups to exceed their goals,

and support cost controls and project management governance and growing

revenue for their business

• In Public Sector, Alain has helped implement new portfolio management

solutions to manage efficient decision process in projects prioritization.

Presentation: Project Management Tools for Increasing Project Success!

Alain is a Project and Portfolio Management Solutions Executive

with Microsoft Canada specializing in Cloud Productivity

Solutions

Have over 20 years of experience in working with enterprise

customers, identifying opportunities for efficiencies or improved

productivity, and helping them set

a roadmap for success.

Project

Project

Project

Project

Evolution of project

Unstructured Project

Management

Ad-hoc Project

Management

• Email

• Excel

• MS Project Standard

• Other tools

Collaborative Project

Management

Team Project Management

• SharePoint Task Lists

• Sync to SharePoint

• Online Tooling

• Microsoft Project Professional

Structured

Project

Management

Portfolio & Project

Management

• Project Server 2013

• Project Online

• Microsoft Project Professional

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Top 10 things why you should use Microsoft Project to manager projects

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Top 10 things why you should use Microsoft Project to manager projects

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Excel

• Ad-Hoc projects

• Classic unstructured Project created in Excel

• Simple Cut and Paste

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Scheduling In Project Management

Project

Creating Task Framework New Coffee

Shop – Location

Research

Location

Lease

Location

New Coffee

shop Location

- Confirmed

Activity

Detail

Task

Task

Milestone

Project

Project

• Top 10

Project

Status Report

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SharePoint Team Site

• Simple to Set up

• Quick Start through ‘Getting Started tiles’

• Time Lines, Milestones and basic task management

• East to configure

• Simple Cut and Paste

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SharePoint Team Site - continued

• Better Task Management (no more folders)

• ‘Classic’ task control with keyboard short cuts

• Organise

• Drag to reorganise

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SharePoint Team Site - continued

• Timelines beyond Microsoft Project Client

• Configure tasks on timeline with drag and drop

• Add Start dates to create ‘bars’

• Colour and configure task and milestones

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Team Sites with Project Pro

• Open Task List with Project Professional

• Project Professional keeps the data in the Task List and synchronized

• Task and Timelines are both synchronized

• ‘Getting Started’ tutorial to gain insight to project management steps and reports

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Reporting with Project Pro

• Powerful Timeline customisation

• New Timeline capabilities

• Easy integration with other applications

• Cut & paste into PowerPoint to build effective reporting decks

• Paste Timeline as separate objects so easily customised further

• Respects Design Themes

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Forum for questions:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/projectserver/en-US/home?forum=project

Trial of Project Pro for Office 365:

https://products.office.com/en-ca/Project/project-pro-for-office-365

Resources

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