Black Belt Professional - Masters Certificate Using Project Server 2003 Workshop

International Institute for Learning, Inc.
New York, NY, United States

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' This workshop builds upon what is learned in the Orange Belt and the Blue Belt Professional (Project Server) courses. The objective of the Black Belt Professional course is to learn how to leverage the Project Server tool to help executives and other management oversee and manage projects and resources in an enterprise environment.

Who Should Attend
This course is specifically targeted at members of the project office, or any people who perform the business analysis for a Project Server deployment. The following people could also benefit: program control officers, project and program management consultants, technical support officers, resource managers, corporate trouble-shooters and Project Server deployment officers and administrators.

What You Will Learn
You’ll learn how to:
�Configure project Sever within your organization from a project office perspective
�Know how to standardize on project templates, calendars, fields and views
�Set up an enterprise resource pool that will allow you to do skill-based scheduling
�Predict long-term resource needs and availabilities across all portfolio projects
�Optimize resource utilization on the short term in the portfolio
�Develop custom portfolio views for resource managers and executives in Project Server
�Perform executive scenario-analysis:
�What if project are added or canceled
�What if resources are added or released
�What if budget is increased or decreased
�Build onto the Project Server platform: OLAP-cube,

Certification
In order to attain your Masters Certificate, you must be Orange Belt and Blue Belt Professional certified and you must complete the Black Belt Professional assignment. Designed to benefit you and your organization, the Black Belt Professional assignment consists of creating an implementation plan for an enterprise feature customized for your organization. The plan should specify the business needs as well as the technical details on the how-to and output. Your initial submission of the assignment is due within 90 days after the end of your Black Belt course if you want to pursue the certification.

Course Overview
Implementing Project Server (PS) and your possibilities for standardization
�Determining the reporting needs in the enterprise
�Setting up custom enterprise fields to address these reporting needs:
�Single-level versus multiple level fields (outline codes)
�Using custom value lists and formulas
�Determine the business rules for red/yellow/green reporting
�Views to standardize on an Enterprise Global platform
�Creating the administrative project for non-project time categories
�Creating project templates and publishing them as enterprise templates
�Defining the timesheet periods, layout, and lock downs

Enterprise Resource Management: the Enterprise Resource Pool
�Setting up an Enterprise Resource Pool
�Generic versus actual resources
�Local versus Enterprise Resources
�Create, modify and delete resources
�Synchronization with the Windows Active Directory
�Resource Breakdown Structure �RBS (Enterprise Resource Outline code 30)
�Coding the skill fields using multi-value instead of single-value fields.
�Model and level the workloads of resources across all enterprise projects
�Optimizing the resource usage within the

0-3 month timeframe
�Making resource demand projections for the 3-6 month timeframe

Serving Executives: Optimizing Project Portfolios
�Developing custom portfolio views for executives to analyze portfolios
�Using the Portfolio Analyzer to dig for the cause of problems observed
�Using the Portfolio Modeler to develop what-if scenarios to address these problems

Customizing Project Server
�Developing a custom Project Guide for your organization
�programming
�Extending the OLAP cube with new measures and dimensions to facilitate further analysis
...''

Phone:800-325-1533 or +1-212-758-0177

School Address:

110 East 59th Street, New York, NY 10022-1380

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