eProject in CSS

Assuming that eProject's PPM6 is adopted by IS&T at the end of its pilot in October 2007, this document explores how CSS will ramp up to use it where applicable in CSS businesses.  The project pilot team identified a five-layer structure for progressively more integrated use of the tool.

  1. Project metadata is maintained in PPM6 (and not in itinfo.mit.edu/work).
  2. XDPP projects with CSS involvement are fully represented in PPM6 and CSS cooperates fully as needed.
  3. Project snapshot reports are created within PPM6 (and not the Excel snapshot templates, which are retired).
  4. Active project management of CSS projects use PPM6 as the tool (and not Fastrack, or MS-Project, etc).
  5. Resource Modeling is fully supported in PPM6, with resources actively managed within PPM, and management reporting is done from PPM data and not the separate

This table sketches the timeline of likely adoption of the tool:

 

 

FY08 Q2

Q3

Q4

FY09 Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

5

Resource Modeling

 

Some

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

4

Active PM in CSS

Some

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

3

Project Snapshots

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

2

XDPP

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

1

Project Metadata

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

  

Achieving these milestones will take some study, matching needs of the work involved with the features available in the tool.  Futher experimentation may change our approach, but for now, the sections below articulate our understanding of what need to do to make it happen at each of these levels.

1. Project Metadata

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