Ok, so you've been tasked with putting together a project management solution in SharePoint. No problem, right? But oh, by the way, it also has to be affordable since budgets have been cut. And there's no money for training, so the solution also needs to be highly intuitive and easy to use. Your staff isn't made up of a bunch of developers - so nothing requiring coding experience is going to work. As if that weren't enough, there are also a few features that are absolute must haves: color-coded calendars are one such requirement, and a method of visually displaying the status of tasks is another. We know what you're probably thinking, but before you start to curse your boss's name - or begin looking for a ledge to jump off - let's take a look at what Bamboo has to offer.
Bamboo has a wide variety of Web Parts, Accelerators, Applications, and Suites available that can help you tackle project management in SharePoint.
We suggest that you begin your investigation into the available solutions with Project Management Central. PM Central is an application that provides users with the ability proactively track, organize, maintain, and report statuses, tasks, risks, and issues for projects within an organization. What does this mean for you? Within an organization that uses PM Central, it will be easy for you to communicate project expectations to team members and anyone else who needs to know a project's status in a simple and quick way, from the smallest task level to an executive summary.
Best of all, PM Central comes bundled with Basic Support and an easy installation and licensing process that will have your complete project management solution up and running in no time. Our special introductory pricing means PM Central is available to you for a total cost of just $6,500.
Can't quite manage the $6,500 price tag with your current budget? One of the great things about Bamboo is that we can offer "as little or as much as you need" - so even if your budget is less than $3,000 - well, we still have you covered. Almost all of our products are available individually, and while you do lose some of the convenience and cost savings which PM Central or the PM Suite represent, the component Web Parts by themselves can still solve a lot of very common project management issues such as:
Aggregation: You've got task lists spread across different project sites and need to be able to conveniently view all of them in a single location. Your team has event lists for various projects that are similarly spread out across your sites. Use List Rollup to aggregate lists from across multiple sites so that you can then filter and sort the data. Have sales data? After you have aggregated the list, connect it to Chart Plus to visually display it in a bar or pie chart. Use our Calendar Plus to manage a task list in a Gantt View. Your total: $1,400
Status: Is your project delayed? Are you over budget and in jeopardy of losing funding? SharePoint Project Portfolio Dashboard allows you to easily view the health and risk levels of your entire project portfolio at a glance. Your total: $1,500
Scheduling: You've got a lot of people to manage. Knowing where they are and what they are doing is vital to managing your resources and getting projects completed on time. Use Team Calendar to organize group calendars and to arrange and update meetings and appointments for your team members through an Outlook-style resource scheduling assistant. To track when your project team members are in or out of the office, the SharePoint In/Out Schedule Board gives you a central area to track out of office and location status. Your total: $1,300
Posted
Jun 10 2009, 09:24 AM
by
EmilyBien
Filed under: Calendar Plus Web Part, List Rollup Web Part, SharePoint Project Portfolio Dashboard, SharePoint Project Management, SharePoint In/Out Schedule Board, Team Calendar Web Part, Chart Plus Web Part, SharePoint Web Parts, Project Management, PM Central, project management central, SharePoint Applications, SharePoint Suites, SharePoint Accelerators
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