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| SharePoint for Project Management: How to Create a Project Management Information System (PMIS) with SharePoint | 
| Author: Dux Sy
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 166414
Format: Illustrated
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 250
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 0.7
ISBN: 059652014X
Dewey Decimal Number: 004
EAN: 9780596520144
ASIN: 059652014X
Publication Date: October 28, 2008
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"If you are a project manager looking for a technology-based, easily implemented, and usable solution for project communications, document management, and general project organization, this book is for you!" -Susan Weese, PgMP, President and Founder, Rhyming Planet Most companies don't understand SharePoint's power, and use it simply to share documents or spreadsheets. This hands-on book demonstrates how SharePoint can also help you organize and manage complex projects. With SharePoint for Project Management, you'll not only understand how to apply common and practical project management concepts in SharePoint, you'll learn how to build a Project Management Information System (PMIS), customized to your project, that can efficiently coordinate communication and collaboration among team members. With this book, you will: Learn to apply key project management techniques by leveraging SharePoint as a PMIS Track a case study that illustrates the circumstances and processes of an effective SharePoint PMIS Appropriately define access permissions for project stakeholders and team members Centralize project documents and keep track of document history with version control Automate project reporting mechanisms and generate on-demand status reports Track project schedules, control changes, and manage project risks Integrate project management tools such as Excel, Microsoft Project, PowerPoint, and Outlook Each chapter includes activities that let you practice what you learn. Most SharePoint books are either too introductory (for end users), or too technical (for system administrators). SharePoint for Project Management is just what project managers like you need to learn how to harness theorganizational abilities of this powerful software.
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 This is where you want to start November 20, 2008
If, like me, you're new to SharePoint and have just been asked to create a SharePoint PMIS then you couldn't get much better than this book. I do take on board some of the other comments from reviewers who felt they wanted more - but that's missing the point a bit. This book does a fantastic job of ensuring someone like me has the foundation knowledge, firmly based in project management context, to build and manage a PMIS.
Managing a successful project and building a good SharePoint PMIS both have to start with well laid foundations. This book delivers exactly that.
Also, for those people seeking more, Dux does a great job in his blogs and on the book's site of answering queries and "collaborating" with other SharePoint users.
A basic book November 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
When I saw the title of the book, and the fact that it was from O'Reilly, I picked it up the day it came out. I had high hopes that I would learn some excellent tips on managing projects in SharePoint. To be fair to the author, the book does exactly what the title says... it shows you how to create a Project Management Information Systems site with SharePoint. Maybe my expectations were too high as to what I would learn.
Unfortunately, I don't think I learned anything new from the entire book. The book basically walks you through creating a project management site on sharepoint, tracking risks, assigning tasks, adding a calendar, etc. You could save the effort and just download the free Project Tracking Workspace template directly from Microsoft: [...]
If you are not experienced with SharePoint, then this is probably just fine for teaching you how to create a site, add web parts, and integrate with Office. If you already know what web parts are and how to synchronize with Outlook, then this is not the book for you.
 Very basic intro to SharePoint November 11, 2008
If you want to know how SharePoint can improve project management this is useless. It has few PM specific suggestions and they are generally simplistic. If you want a simple "how to use sharepoint" book to give users (not just PMs), this is decent because it's shorter and less intimidating than other texts. Imagine a generic how-to book stripped down to the bare essentials and you have this book.
A book an administrator or site owner can hand users November 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a quick and easy read for a Project Manager or employee who may manage a project. If the reader is an average skilled SharePoint user, he or she should be able to work through this book and the exercises in a day. The book's step by step approach to building a generic and useful template for a PM site is well written. Dux does a good job of connecting good PM practices and SharePoint features.
As a SharePoint admin, I'm going to hand this out to site owners who want to use SharePoint for project management. It will definitely reduce the amount of time I need to spend explaining the in's and out's of SharePoint as a Project Management Information System.
 PMIS For Dummies November 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book was dissapointing in the extreme. It provides little to no indepth coverage of anything that someone with a couple of hours of hands on time with Sharepoint could have already worked out, by simply following their nose.
As an ex-Microsoft employee and PMP, I had high hopes of this book filling a much needed gap. Save your money folks and give this one a wide birth.
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