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| FY08 Q2 | Q3 | Q4 | FY09 Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Q4 |
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5 | Resource Modeling |
| Some | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
4 | Active PM in CSS | Some | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
3 | Project Snapshots | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
2 | XDPP | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
1 | Project Metadata | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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Planning for PPM
Achieving these milestones will take some study, matching needs of the work involved with the features available in the tool. Futher experimentation may change our approach, but for now, the sections below articulate our understanding of what need to do to make it happen at each of these levels.
0. Organizing CSS People around PPM Roles
Project Managers will include at least each of the CSS managers who have metadata to maintain and any other staff with a project to manage.
Resource Managers will include all the CSS managers and all the CSS team leaders.
Timesheet-only Users will include any CSS staff that are part of SAIS projects and any others that require work actuals to be submitted.
Project Services Office (PSO) takes on super-Project administrative duties on behalf of PMs (organizing custom fields, fixing permissions, creating reports). Also monitors IS&T projects within PPM to foster communication out and around about work that's organizing and how it might affect others.
1. Project Metadata
This is entry level use of the PPM tool.
- All the managers of projects in CSS are involved. They need:
- user accounts in PPM
- training in how to create project instances with metadata filled in.
- be able to create and view the list-of-projects report and see detailed data about
2. XDPP
3. Project Snapshots
Builds on Project Metadata
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by adding these elements to each project: