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Software for Project Management
Project Integration Management
Increases Projects' Success Rate

Do you find increasing your projects' success rate a constant challenge?

Then, software for project management can help you increase this rate by improving your project integration management.

According to the Project Management Institute (PMI) Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge, Third Edition, Project Integration Management Knowledge Area includes the processes and activities needed to identify, define, combine, unify and coordinate the various processes and project management activities within the Project Management Process Groups.

In the project management context, integration includes characteristics of unification, consolidation, articulation and integrative actions that are crucial to project completion, successfully meeting customer and other stakeholder requirements and managing expectations.

Hence, increasing the success rates of your projects!

Integration, in the context of managing a project, is making choices about where to concentrate resources and effort on any given day, anticipating potential issues, dealing with these issues before they become critical and coordinating work for the overall project good.

The integration effort also involves making trade-offs among competing objectives and alternatives.

In this project integration management area, software for project management tools enable you to achieve effective planning, tracking and communication of project information. These tools help you to plan, manage, and communicate project information, resulting in increased productivity and effectiveness.

Software for project management tools help you in three key areas:

  1. Organized Work
  2. Software for project management helps you to better organize and manage work and people to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget.

    • Better organize your projects and people with the scheduling power and capabilities of the software tool.

    • Track and evaluate impacts of schedule and resources changes to overall project plans.

    • Customize plans to capture information specific to your projects.

    • Display only the information you want to review.

  3. Compelling Communications
  4. Software for project management helps you to effectively and succinctly communicate project plans and status to all the project stakeholders.

    • Increase your project impact by communicating and presenting ideas and information more effectively.

      The software for project management that is integrated with the Microsoft Office System and other industry-standard systems accomplishes this. As these are the office systems that your project stakeholders already use.

    • Communicate more clearly and effectively by being able to print one-page project schedules.

    • Share project information with team members through the Windows SharePoint Services. The software for project management that is integrated with the Windows SharePoint Services accomplishes this.

  5. Ease of Use
  6. Software for project management enhances your productivity and effectiveness by helping you to easily learn and apply project management practices with a familiar and easy-to-use interface.

    • Use familiar tools and built-in assistance to do more sophisticated work with impact without the need for much additional training.

    • Save time by transferring existing project plans to the software for project management and other programs in the Microsoft Office System.

    • Navigate and learn the software tool quickly with an interface that is consistent with the Microsoft Office System that you already know.

    • Take advantage of online help and training to access relevant and up-to-date support.

    • Download a template from a Template Gallery to start your projects rather than starting from scratch.

Now some great news for you...

Microsoft Project 2003 Standard is the world's leading software for project management that delivers all the above help!

Microsoft Project 2003 Standard has eight features that will deliver all the above help to you.

These eight features are:

Organized Work

  1. Better organize your projects and people with the scheduling power and capabilities of Microsoft Project 2003 Standard.

    • Proposed Booking of Resources.

      Proposed booking allows you to assign resources to tasks in a "proposed" or "reserved" assignment state. It marks a resource as not truly committed to the project.

  2. Display the information you want to review.

    • Value Lists in Filters.

      When creating filters in Microsoft Project 2003 Standard, in the "Values" field, you can select from a pick list rather than having to manually type entries.

  3. Customize plans to capture information specific to your projects.

    • Project Guide.

      Microsoft has made improvements to the Project Guide to make it easier for developers to customize it. The major change is that hard-coded paths for files are no longer required.

Compelling Communications

  1. Increase your project impact by communicating and presenting ideas and information more effectively in programs in the Microsoft Office System and through industry-standard formats.

    • Copy Picture to Office Wizard.

      The Copy Picture to Office wizard helps you to easily create new presentations of Project data in Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office PowerPoint and Microsoft Office Visio.

    • XML Reporting Wizard.

      The XML Reporting Wizard helps you to generate HTML documents from project data using XSL templates.

  2. Communicate more clearly and effectively by being able to print one-page project schedules.

    • Project Guide for Printing Wizard.

      The Project Guide has a "Print Current View as a Report" wizard to help you to more easily print what you see.

  3. Share project information with team members through Windows SharePoint Services.

    • Shared Workspaces.

      Shared Workspaces allow your project team to store Project files and other documents centrally. Shared workspaces are based on Windows SharePoint Services. Hence, Microsoft Project 2003 Standard requires Windows SharePoint Services.

Ease of Use

Navigate and learn the software quickly with an interface that is consistent with Microsoft Office 2003 Editions. Take advantage of online help and training to access relevant and up-to-date support. Download a template from the Template Gallery to start your projects rather than starting from scratch.

  • Office 2003 Editions Task Panes.

    This set of task panes incorporates various features from Microsoft Office 2003 Editions, including: