Agile Deployment Models
To ensure customers achieve success with pmPoint, BrightWork has developed two alternative but complimentary deployment approaches as outlined below. BrightWork and its partners are happy to provide consulting and deployment services targeted at successful design, implementation and usage of the pmPoint collaboration project management solution as needed.
In most cases, BrightWork pmPoint can be deployed in a matter of days or weeks as opposed to weeks or months. In this way, BrightWork and our partners strive to ensure that customers gain a solid return on their investment on an accelerated timetable.
Go it Alone Deployment
If you are already familiar with SharePoint and you understand the basic principles of work and project management then you can deploy pmPoint with very little outside assistance in 3 simple steps as follows:
- Create a Project Office site (to manage multiple projects) using one of the pmPoint Program Management templates.
- Create and populate individual projects underneath using one or more of the pmPoint Project Management templates.
- Show team members where to find and manage their work.
Project Office Deployment
This deployment focuses on getting a Project Office deployed to manage a number of projects for a particular area. It follows the following simple steps.
- Plan this deployment (Estimated effort … a few hours)
- Technical Setup (Estimated effort … a few hours)
- Install pmPoint (on SharePoint)
- Create a Brightwork Site Collection
Build Project Office (Estimated effort … a few hours to a day or so)
- Train the Local Design Team
- Select Templates
- Create Templates
- Customize Templates (optional)
- Create Project Office Site Hierarchy
- Add Users
- Rollout (Estimated effort … a few hours to a day or so)
- Provide Training to Project Managers and Team Members
- Operational Transition (Estimated effort … a few hours)
- Hand over to Operations Support Team (if one exists)
