Essential SharePoint for Project Managers

2 Days

Overview

This hands-on workshop focuses on using Microsoft® SharePoint to increase team efficiency and success rates with your projects, programs, and portfolios.

Participants will learn and apply best practices using SharePoint for project collaboration, tracking, process automation, document management, dashboards, and reporting. Participants will be SharePoint power users after completion of this two-day workshop, as every major feature group of SharePoint is explored.

 

Each Student will utilize their own SharePoint environment working through labs that include:

  • Defining Governance for your SharePoint environment
  • Configuring your PMO and project SharePoint sites, adding site members, and setting permissions
  • Integrating SharePoint with Microsoft® Project and Excel & Publishing reports to SharePoint using Excel Services
  • Creating custom lists for risk management, issue tracking, team information, tasks, and milestones
  • Synchronizing shared calendars, tasks lists, contacts and discussions with Outlook
  • Using KPIs to track project health, publishing reports and creating dashboards
  • Creating online forms for issue management, project change requests, and other templates
  • Automating project processes with SharePoint Workflows
  • Using meeting and document workspaces
  • Archiving your project data, and using SharePoint surveys for capturing lessons learned.

 

Features:

  • Hands on learning
  • PMP® certified instructors
  • A Complete system for using SharePoint on your projects
  • Flash drive with templates, checklists, and other resources
  • One on one coaching
  • Qualifies for 15 Professional Development Units from PMI