Get the flexibility and power your teams require with Project Accelerator for Project for the web.
The success of your deliverables relies on strong communication and visibility into your project assets. Share information with your stakeholders in a single location and ensure teams are progressing towards common goals. Real- time visibility into project performance keeps teams aligned and stakeholders in the know – allowing you to shift direction or remove barriers quickly when necessary.
Enable OnePlan directly from the left navigation in Teams. Leverage our growing library of configuration templates for immediate use.
Create Teams sites for each project, enabling ongoing discussion threads, document management and direct access to tasks, issues, risks and other key project information.
Define your strategy, objectives and measurable results. Link these objectives to your Portfolios and programs to determine investment priorities.
Microsoft launched Project for the web in October of 2019, unveiling “Project Re-imagined”. At the same time, they announced that all future investments in project management tools would focus on maturing Project for the web and creating a compelling offering using the Power platform. This move brings Project Management into the core of Microsoft’s technology vision, enabling direct access in Microsoft Teams and providing organizations with a flexibility Project Online could never offer.
OnePlan worked closely with the Microsoft Engineering and Product Marketing teams to create the new Project Accelerator for Project for the web. The Accelerator provides immediate value to address the needs of many organizations and the building blocks to satisfy more detailed requirements. This flexibility and versatility is the real promise of the Microsoft vision and the Power Platform.
Breaking the solution into its components, the Accelerator provides compelling functionality in the following areas:
Enable PMs to begin oversight at the intake of projects or requests to enhance reporting and available information. Properly analyze requests and promote better detail management and project prioritization. Make it easier to move projects or tasks to the next lifecycle phase.
Enable better execution and oversight of collections of projects that are grouped by a defining characteristic. With complex, overarching initiatives, many interconnected projects may tie into a single program.
Building off of everything you expect from Project for the web, including project and task management, the Accelerator does away with the individual nature of these projects and adds the management of risks, issues, and change requests. The Accelerator also fosters easier and more precise status reports, providing better governance and showcasing KPIs. This further enhances the flexibility that an organization has to proceed with projects, providing more time for adjustments.
The portfolio insights provided by Power BI and the customization of report packs create the ultimate directional tool for projects and big picture management. Quickly and accurately identifying issues to create visibility around risks bolsters an organization’s knowledge to adjust projects and processes for the optimal outcome. Improved insights enhanced by the Dataverse information repository take purely reactive management out of the equation and open up enhanced decision-making to past, present, and future possibilities.
Additional advanced capabilities extend the new Project for the web Accelerator into a full-featured Adaptive Project Portfolio Management solution that exceeds the functionality of Project Online. This complete solution meets all 9 of Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Project Portfolio Management Requirements.
Our solution leverages OnePlan along with additional Power Apps to extend the Project for the web Accelerator. The additional capabilities are described below:
The OnePlan Adaptive PPM solution supports using both Project for the Web and Project Professional as end-user scheduling tools. It also supports using Planner, SharePoint lists, Azure DevOps, and JIRA, providing seamless access to the work management tools of choice across an organization. Gone are the days of insisting that all projects must use a complex professional tool. The goal: provide PMs with the option to work with the tools they need to do the job right.
OnePlan supports the creation of Portfolios with owners, budgets, objectives, and benefit targets. Portfolio Analysis can be done using conventional stack ranking based on prioritization scoring, and scenarios can be created that consider budget and resource constraints. Additionally, the solution includes boards to perform program increment planning and prioritization in support of Lean Portfolio Management and Agile planning methodologies.
Create sprints, program increments, and epics, and define the relationships between them. Enable resourcing based on sprints, stable teams, and cross-functional teams. Organizations can use a variety of methodologies and delivery models in the enterprise. This dynamic environment provides consolidation, portfolio planning, and reporting on top of the various PMOs and their chosen delivery models. Scaled Agile Framework certified.
The OnePlan Solution includes rich capacity-based resource planning regardless of the tool being used to manage the project. This enables organizations to understand resource commitments across all projects and initiatives and track resource actuals and changing forecasts.
The Financial Plan module provides the ability to capture time-phased financial information against a cost breakdown structure and cost types. The module supports the capture of budgets, forecasts, actuals, and benefits. Integration with other systems can provide seamless bi-directional information, further enhancing the value of these capabilities.
Consolidate tasks and other to-dos (issues and risks) into a single view for status updates. This enables resources to status tasks and update Project Managers on progress regardless of the scheduling tool used to plan and manage their project.
A timesheet module captures actuals across the same array of work management tools as well as other administrative tasks and non-project time.
Address complex business requirements, connect to critical business systems, and support multiple user communities each with their own needs and end-user tools to make better, more timely portfolio decisions.
Organizations are moving to what Gartner calls Adaptive Project Management. Our complete solution supports:
If you currently use Project Server or Project Online, we are invested in helping you find your path forward on the Microsoft platform while leveraging your existing investments in Microsoft Project. Microsoft’s new vision offers exciting new approaches and capabilities to support your PMO. Our complete Adaptive Project Management solution provides all the capabilities of Project Server/Online while also enabling the use of Planner, Project for the web, Microsoft Project Desktop, Azure DevOps and other project delivery tools in use in your organization. We are here to show you how and help you plan your transition.
Our migration planning workshop helps clients plan their transition. This workshop looks at the various migration options, current Microsoft licensing investments, required capabilities, integration requirements and other considerations and results in a high-level roadmap and budget.
For new clients seeking a Project Portfolio Management solution, Project for the web and the Power Platform with OnePlan offers a compelling option that will evolve and grow with your organization. We are eager to show you how you can address your needs with a modern interface, dynamic tools and rich integration with other business systems.
The future of Project Portfolio Management on the Microsoft Power Platform is exciting and we are committed to its success.
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