Microsoft® Office Project Server 2003 Unleashed

Best Practices

At the end of each chapter in this book, the authors present key ideas that they believe are most important and pertinent to the topics in the chapter. This section outlines the best practices recommended for the EPM philosophy considerations:

• Establish and run the EPM implementation as a project. An EPM implementation is a complex project and must be run as such. Designate a strong project manager and make sure that your team has the industry expertise, in both the project management domain and in the Microsoft software, to accomplish the project.

• Use an evolutionary approach. Your EPM implementation will probably roll out in phases, initially using simple strategies that become more complex as your EPM business processes and technology ...