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- Hello, everyone.
With Project for the Web,
your teams can easily collaborate on their projects.
And because we've built it on the Power Platform,
we've made it easy for you to scale project
to meet the needs of your organization.
I'm Alexander Lahuerta, and I'm going to show you
how you can quickly get started using Projects for the Web
to help your PMO manage its work.
This is possible because every Project license
includes capabilities that enable you to integrate projects
into how your organizations manage their projects,
programs and portfolios.
With the Power Platform,
you don't just have tools
that make it easy to customize the experience for your team
but you have the peace of mind
that comes with enterprise security and compliance
and we bring it all together
in the PMO Accelerator solution.
This free starter solution takes the Project Power App
and extends it with a set of capabilities
that help your PMO quickly gets started
with Project for the Web.
And you can take the Accelerator solution
and modify it to fit how your team does work.
So let's go see how the Accelerator
might be able to help you.
It all starts with a Project Power App.
This completely customizable tool
is included with every Product license.
And if it looks familiar, it's because at its core,
it gives your teams the same easy to use
project management experience that you have
in Project for the Web
but there are some important differences.
Along the left side of the screen,
you have this navigation menu
where you can add and customize links
to make it easy for the people on your project
to reach the other tools they work with every day.
Along the top, you have a contextual command ribbon
where you can add and customize buttons.
For example, adding button
that triggers a power automate workflow
to send a project for review.
And included in the Power App are forms and views
that you can use to add custom fields and charts
to help track information important to your organization.
And what's great is that any customization you make
to the Project Power App can easily be packaged
and deployed across your organization.
And to help you get started, we've created a solution
with common capabilities
to help your project management office get started
managing their projects and programs in Project for the Web.
Let's take a look at what the PMO Accelerator solution
does for project.
I have it deployed for another organization in my tenant.
To reach it, I open the Office App Launcher
where we have another Power App
but this is for our PMO organization.
When it opens, you'll see we've configured
the Project Power App with several new capabilities.
The first thing you'll notice is this home dashboard
with interactive charts
that help you get a quick perspective
into the health of your portfolio.
We've also added this project request area.
Think about having an ideation process
where you generate a set of ideas, review them
and then approve them.
Let's open one up and see what it looks like.
In this form, we've included fields to help you evaluate
the impact of an idea.
There's room to add a business case
as well as fields to help with calculating an ROI.
Under the covers, we've also added a Power Automate workflow
to you help you with the approvals process.
Imagine you're someone who's evaluating ideas
for what to fund next.
You go over all the details in the project request
and if everything looks good,
you set the value of the state field to approved.
Once you press Save the Power Automate workflow runs
and creates a project.
If you want, you can customize the workflow.
So if your processes requires,
say a project be on a certain budget,
requires another layer of approvals,
you can customize the workflow for that process.
Now, it's going to take a moment for that workflow
to create the project.
So while it's running,
let's take a look at a few other things
that we've added to the Project Power App.
Along the left navigation menu,
you'll see we've added Programs.
And this is just a simple hierarchy of projects
that are similar in some way.
Like everything else in the Accelerator,
you can configure it for how your organization works.
We can set some basic information such as who's the owner
and if there's a start and end date.
You have lightweight financial tracking.
And one of the values of having a hierarchy
is that you can then roll everything up
from all the different projects
that are part of the program
and here's where you can add and remove them.
So at this point, the workflow to create the project
is probably done.
So let's go take a look at it.
We'll open up the projects area.
And in here, we'll have a list of all the projects
that are in progress or completed.
Now, let's open up this new project that we've just made.
And the first thing you'll is how much richness
the PMO Accelerator adds to a project.
Beyond a high level information
such as project name and start and finish date,
we've also given you a way to include projects
in stage gate processes that you might rely upon,
and to categorize them in different ways.
There are also tabs here where you can define business cases
and do lightweight financial management.
And no project management solution would be complete
without a way to track risks and issues.
And we've added tabs here to help you do that.
And as your project changes along the way,
you have a change register
which you can use for any processes
that you have around that.
The last big piece we've added
with the PMO Accelerator is integration with Power BI.
All organizations that use Power BI for reporting,
you can deploy the included Power BI template
and have it appear in the Accelerator.
Pressing the Reports menu item takes you there.
Now, this template is a great way to get a high level view
of your portfolio.
What's the allocation of resources across your projects?
Is your portfolio on track or off track?
And what is the expected timeline for things to wrap up?
The PMO Accelerator is a fantastic tool
to help your organizations get started
with some common capabilities
they'll need to manage their projects,
programs and portfolios.
But it really is just the start.
Once you of the Accelerator in your organization,
the Power Platform enables you to integrate it
into the tools and processes your teams rely upon
to get their work done.
If you'd like to learn more
about how the PMO Accelerator can help your organization,
visit these links.
And the Accelerator's just one way
the new Project can help your teams.
So be sure to check out the other sessions.
Thank you.
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