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whitepaper Report Project Performance0000-00-00 Microsoft
  Gathering project performance data is critical to measuring project performance, maintaining up-to-date reports, and tracking project status. By using Microsoft Office Word 2003 and Microsoft Office Excel 2003 templates, one can easily generate, track, and present his project's performance information and compare planned results against actual results. One can also create a scorecard to help improve his performance in the future.

Tags: Spreadsheets		   
whitepaper Prepare Final Project Information0000-00-00 Microsoft
  When one is ready to close out a project, it's important that to do it right. The person needs to review his team's performance and the project's financial performance. By using Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 and Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003, the person can gather information about lessons learned, project results, and even who should get extra recognition. InfoPath also works with Microsoft online templates to create a phase completion acceptance document, a lessons learned summary, and performance report.

Tags: Spreadsheets		   
whitepaper A Health Plan Management Group of a Fortune 50 Telecommunications Company Needed to Automate the Management of 400+ Medical and Dental Plans, Provided by 70+ Health Plan Providers Nationwide2006-10-08 Gold Lion Associates
  The Health Plan Management Group of a major telecommunications company (Company) manages 400+ medical and dental plans, provided by 70+ health plan providers nationwide. Company benefits specialists in regional offices throughout the country were manually collecting health plan information for the plans that they administer. Information was collected and distributed to the Third Party Administrator (TPA) using Word documents, and other paper-based media. The solution consisted of a web-based portal solution, built on Microsoft's SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (SharePoint) and on-line web forms developed with Microsoft's Word 2003 technology to facilitate information capture. A customized workflow was developed to assist the RFP approval process utilizing the document library and foldering capability of SharePoint.

Tags: Methodology, Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper A Major Food Market and Supplier of Dairy Products Wanted a Project Management Methodology to Manage Their Non-SAP Software Development Projects From Within the SAP Environment2006-10-05 Gold Lion Associates
  The company needed one single methodology for managing both SAP and non-SAP development projects. The company deployed an IT Project Book that provides a set of templates to incorporate the best practices of SAP's ASAP methodology and the PMBOK. This allowed the Company to focus on one methodology, while utilizing SAP s Solution Manager tool to maintain project management artifacts.   
whitepaper Querying a Geographic Database Using an Ontology-Based Methodology2006-10-02 Universidade Federal do Rio G. Norte
  The work discussed in this paper presents a mechanism that allows different community users access the same geographic database without knowing its particular internal structure. The authors used geographic ontologies to support a common and shared understanding of a specific domain: the coral reefs. Using these ontologies descriptions that represent the knowledge of the different communities, mechanisms are created to handle with such different concepts. The authors used equivalent classes mapping, and a semantic layer that interacts with the ontologies and the geographic database, and that gives to the user the answers about his/her queries, independently of the used terms.

Tags: Methodology		   
whitepaper Choose the Solution That Is Right for You2006-10-01 Oracle
  Oracle believes the key to success is to offer customers choice, and not force them into one deployment methodology over another. It understands that organizations want solutions that are perfectly fit to address their problems and challenges and allow them to meet their key strategic goals. They need maximum flexibility when deciding which solution is right for their organization, both today and as their business needs change in the future. In assessing which deployment option is most appropriate for their business, organizations can consider key factors explain in this paper.

Tags: Methodology		   
whitepaper Leveraging Life-cycle Management for Software and Business Adaptability2006-10-01 Borland Software
  IDC experts explain how a Lifecycle Quality Management approach can help you assure the business value of your applications.

You'll learn how to clearly define business requirements, align them with testing, and evolve development processes to prevent defects. Get an overview of best practices and get a jumpstart on finding a solution that addresses your lifecycle pain points.

Tags: Software Project Management, Software Engineering, Methodology, Application Development		   
whitepaper Why Companies Fail on the Way to Implementing Project Management Methodology?: A Critical Viewpoint of the Contributors to an Organization's Main Faults2006-10-01 PMFORUM
  Project Management (PM) has now become an extremely fashionable topic for discussion and it seems that this trend will increase even further in the future. The Project Manager as a professional individual has gained sustained and strong credentials throughout the world. Practitioners today are struggling everywhere to keep their standing up and to get nationwide certification from reputed institutions. Like individuals, organizations tend to adjust and upgrade their behavior for better representation in the market. There are some major problems, however, with how companies try to implement project management methodologies. This paper discusses three major problems that the author have noticed in how organizations implement PM.   
whitepaper IT Department Delivers on Its Business Objectives With an EPM Solution2006-10-01 Microsoft
  Administaff, a full-service human resources services provider, wanted to improve visibility into resource utilization and better align resources with business objectives. To support internal operations and core customer applications, the IT department used Microsoft Office Project Server 2003. While deploying Project Server 2003, Administaff realized that significant value could be realized by upgrading to Microsoft Office Project Server 2007. The 2007 release could improve insight into available resources, facilitate communication between team members, and further reduce cycle time for large projects. Following the initial test implementation, Administaff plans to fully upgrade to Office Project Server 2007 and deploy Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007 to address critical resource management issues.

Tags: Business Management, Methodology		   
whitepaper Computer Sciences Corporation Saves Time and Money With a Centralized EPM Solution2006-10-01 Microsoft
  Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), a leading IT services provider, wanted to reduce its overhead costs in managing the large outsourcing engagements increasingly critical to its business. CSC faced difficulty in keeping pace with stakeholder demands for resource visibility and control. CSC turned to Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 to complement its best practice processes with a central repository for tracking resources and project status. With Office Project Server 2007 reporting capabilities, key stakeholders gain immediate and up-to-date visibility and control. Integration with Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services also helps employees collaborate more efficiently. Overall, CSC anticipates that the solution will save at least 30 percent on updating efforts for general team members, 50 percent for project managers, and more than 60 percent for project management office staff.

Tags: Methodology, Services