BrightWork pmPoint for SharePoint 2007 - Project Management Templates

BrightWork Project Management Templates for SharePoint 2007

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BrightWork pmPoint is the first standards based SharePoint (WSS v3 / MOSS) add-on for managing work and projects. BrightWork is the first organization delivering SharePoint solutions based on a formal project management model – MSF, the Microsoft Solutions Framework, which in turn was influenced by the PMI PMBOK (Project Management Institute Project Management Body of Knowledge).

BrightWork pmPoint takes full advantage of the awesome collaborative powers of SharePoint. All the normal SharePoint functionality works with BrightWork pmPoint – nothing is lost.  BrightWork pmPoint extends SharePoint with templates that make it very easy to manage work and projects.

Project Management Templates

BrightWork includes five main templates for managing single projects and three main templates for managing across multiple  projects.  You select the template you need based on the degree of project management process and structure that you require. 

• Rapid project start-up with pre-built solution templates that integrate industry best practices
• Flexible to meet an organization’s unique ways that they work and terminology that they use
• Optionally import from a Microsoft Project plan to define the work of a project
• Extensible to meet compliance requirements for various industry and government regulations and standards

Single Project Management Templates

BrightWork pmPoint includes 5 single project management templates:

• Issue Manager
  This template is designed for projects where you just want to “manage by exception” by only tracking project status and issues related to the project in hand and not details related to actions, tasks, deliverables, risks, etc.  [more]
• Commitment Manager
  The Commitment – Issue – Action template is a good example of a semi-structured process where you want to manage more than the issues by managing goals and tasks, but you do not need a fully structured site with a more extensive process.  Other variants on this theme include the SIR process (project Statement, Issue and Risks) or the AIR process (Assumptions, Issues and Requirements), etc. [more]
• Business Project Manager
  This template is useful for a range of business departments to run their projects including sales, marketing, engineering, etc. It provides a well-defined structure that can be easily customized to meet the specific process and taxonomy for each department and project. [more]
  • Note - this template is delivered in two forms - one that uses a Microsoft Project style project schedule and one that uses simpler flat SharePoint lists to manage work
• IT Project Manager
  This is a highly structured template based on the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) v3 to provide a robust process for managing IT projects such as system implementations and upgrades. It includes a pre-defined hierarchy of phases, milestones, deliverables, tasks, issues, and risks, etc. [more]
  • Note - this template is also delivered in two forms - one that uses a Microsoft Project style project schedule and one that uses simpler flat SharePoint lists to manage work
• Agile Software Manager
  This is a fully structured template that includes support for the most common agile process and deliverables for the various project iterations (iterations, personas, scenarios, tasks, bugs, etc).  This approach is based on the iterative-agile model contained in the Microsoft Solutions Framework for Agile Software Development. [more]
• Blank Template
  This template contains a Project Statement and a My Work report but is otherwise blank, allowing you to build your own project management process from the ground up.

Multiple Project Management Templates

BrightWork pmPoint includes 3 multiple project management templates:

• Issue Manager (Rollup)
  Many groups want to manage across projects by just managing the problems - management by exception.  This template crawls through the nominated project sites and brings back Project Status and Issues into a dashboard.  [more]
• Project Office
  Some teams and departments want to report on key items from a handful of selected projects, e.g. status, issues, risks, milestones, deliverables, etc.  This template is designed for projects where the teams want to roll-up selected items from multiple projects.  This template has a set of default reports that can be used or customizable - under the following five headings: Projects, My Work, Work, Issues and Resource Management. [more]   
• Program Management Office
  Many organizations want to establish a PMO (Program Management Office) function.  In this scenario they want to manage at the Project Office level as well as managing the elements from the subordinate projects.  This template is designed for the quick establishment of a PMO where the team wants a process to manage the PMO as well as roll-up selected items from multiple projects.  This template has a set of default reports that can be used or customizable - under the following five headings: Projects, My Work, Work, Issues and Resource Management. [more]
  

Key features of all the above cross project templates include:

• Multi-level project/program management hierarchy
  • Portfolio, Program, Project, Sub-Project
• Customizable in terms of project levels, naming and the amount of process involved at each level
• Cross project reports
  • At each level of hierarchy
  • For project collections across the various hierarchies

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