Dux Raymond Sy, Bamboo's resident expert on SharePoint Project Management, presented his session on "7 Ways to Leverage SharePoint for PM Success" to kick off the afternoon sessions on the first day of the Best Practices Conference. Functioning as a companion piece to his 7 Reasons Why SharePoint is a Great PMIS blog of sorts, Dux's well attended session featured the added benefits of his presenting skills, live demos to illustrate his points, and an unexpected treat to conclude the session: Dux's onstage debut at a rap star, performing his new single, "SharePoint is Nice, Nice."
Dux identified the core challenges faced by Project Managers as being:
- Lack of a standardized process
- Poor Communications
- Ineffective project information management
- Centralized repository
- Traceability
- Access privilege
- Reporting
- Inefficient team collaboration
Dux then went on to define a PMIS for the audience, explaining that it's a standardized set of automated PM tools integrated into a system used by the PM team to support generation and maintenance of project artifacts, facilitate communication and feedback, and generally serve as a centralized repository for all project-related data.
SharePoint is a great PMIS, Dux explained, because Project Managers are empowered to create a SharePoint site that serves as a PMIS, access can be limited, project artifacts can be centralized, and communications can be streamlined.
The 7 ways to leverage SharePoint for PM Success are:
- Easily create a PMIS
- Efficiently store project artifacts
- Facilitate better collaboration
- Enhance communication
- Automate processes
- Generate relevant reports
- Enable Mobile access
For additional details, straight from the pen of Dux himself, refer to the aforementioned 7 Reasons Why SharePoint is a Great PMIS post. But before you do that, trust me, you've got to check out Dux's debut performance of "SharePoint is Nice, Nice, Baby" (to the tune of Vanilla Ice's "Ice, Ice, Baby") which just brought the house down here at the Best Practices Conference:
Wish you had a lyric sheet? Catch MC Dux's "SharePoint is Nice, Nice, Baby" BPC09 Remix, featuring the complete lyrics:
"Word to your Admin!"
Posted
Aug 24 2009, 02:50 PM
by
John Anderson
John Anderson joined Bamboo Solutions as Manager of Content & Syndication in May 2008 after a 12-year career at AOL. New to SharePoint at the time of his hiring, John was tasked with creating a new blog for the just-launched Bamboo Nation community in which he would document his daily SharePoint learning process. Thus was born the end user-centric SharePoint Blank, for which John authored 200 posts within a year, and which he continues to write today. Today, John writes SharePoint Blank in addition to his responsibilities as Managing Editor at Bamboo and, while he learned much about SharePoint in his first two years, he gleefully celebrates the release of SharePoint 2010 and the reset button that the new platform represents for SharePoint Blank.