HP Project Management

Haider Ali 2434

Osama Sarfraz 2596
M.Ikhlas Khan 2607
 Table of Content
• Introduction
• General Setup Considerations
• Configuring Project Types
• Creating a Project
• Creating a Work Plan 
 Table of Content
• Configuring Task
• Managing a Project
• Updating Tasks
• Using Work Plan Templates
• Integrating HP Project Management with Microsoft Project
 Introduction

• Enables organizations to streamline the management of project activities.

• Step-by-step processes to complete specific tasks.
• Policies can be set that govern aspects of project.
• Teams can easily manage work plan activities.
 General Setup Considerations

• Setting up Resources.
• Setting up Regions.
• Configure project control processes.
• Setting up project types.
• Setting up Activities.
• Setting up HP Time Management Integration.
 Configuring Project Types

• Policies for a project.

• Cost and Effort.
• Resource Load Settings.
• Cost and Earned Value Health.
 Creating a Project

• Log on to PPM Center.

• Create a project.
• Adjust the project’s settings.
• Configure the project’s participants.
• Create a staffing profile for the project.
 Creating a Project

• Create a work plan for the project.

• Task start and finish dates.
• Assigned resources.
• Set the project and work plan status to Active.
 Creating a Work Plan 

• Click the Create blank work plan link.

• Add tasks to the blank work plan.
• Fill in the following task aspects
 Name
 Duration
 Start or finish date
• Create any desired milestones.
 Creating a Work Plan

• Schedule the project.

• Filter the work plan view in different ways.
• Begin configuring individual tasks, if necessary.
• View the critical path of work plan.
 Configuring Tasks

• Tasks are characterized.

• Resources are assigned.
• Skills or Roles are assigned.
• Setting Scheduling Constraints.
 Managing a Project

• Setting up a Project
• Following are involved in setting a project:
 Project settings
 Project details
 Work plan
 Managing a Project

• Adding Tasks to a Work Plan.

• Concurrent Work Plan Editing.
• Tracking Work Plan Audit History.
• Completing, Cancelling, and Deleting Projects.
 Updating Tasks

• Locating Tasks.
• Viewing Project Information.
• Exporting Your Task Schedule.
 Using Work Plan Templates

• Creating a Template from an Existing Work Plan.

• Conversion Details of work plane to work plane template.
• Data that work plan templates do not carry is dropped. Like:
 External predecessors
 Schedule dates
 Constraints
 Effort and cost actuals
 Using Work Plan Templates

 Task status
 Resource assignments and summary task owners
 References
 User data
• Scheduled effort is copied.
• Everything else is copied into the work plan template.
Integrating HP Project Management with
Microsoft Project

• Allows the organization to have visibility into projects.

• Projects that have been imported or exported can be synchronized.
• Synchronization Modes.