Project Accelerator Project for the Web
Project for the Web or Project Plan 1, is an easy to use Project Management application from Microsoft, that organisations can leverage to manage projects and plan resource activities.
The Project Accelerate is built on the powerapp platform. It is a free power app solution released by Microsoft for organizations to use and extend the capabilities of Project for the Web at no extra cost as long as these extensions are within the limits allowed by Microsoft.
Project Requests
The Project Request is a functionality in the project acceleratator that enables organisations to capture requests or project initiatives through configurable data capture forms. These forms can be changed and configured to suit individual organisation needs.
Approval Workflow
On approval these project requests or initiatives can quickly be converted into projects within the projects accelerator.
Programs
Projects can easily be catagorized and grouped into various programmes. The programmes themselves can have attributes and definitions such as budgets, risks issues to help identify data elements at the program level.
Projects
Key information and attributes can be assigned to Projects. This helps ogananisation to tailor this to their requirements. Views can be built on top of the project information so as to present different views of the underlying porject datat.
The Scheduling of the project is done in Project for the Web or Plan1.
Dashboards
Dashboards in the project accelerator will surface key information in easy to digest bars and graphs. It gives you the ability to visualise your project and resources data and tailor the dashboards to your needs. You can expand the dasboard tiles and evey add custom tiles that suits your needs.
Risks and Issues. A simple Risk and Issue Register to manage risks and issues on the project.
Changes. A simple register to track project change. A simple solution to help organisations to.
Status. Centralize recording of project status to keep stakeholders up-to-date.
Extending Microsoft Project Accelerator
Timesheeting for Project Accelerator
Microsoft Project Accelerator can be extended to capture timesheets against tasks planned in the project for the web. Timesheets entries are populated from the Task assignments in project for the web. Resouces can submit time against these tasks which updates the progress in the Project for the web.
Resource Planning for Project Accelerator
Microsoft Project Accelerator can be extended to plan for resoruces across projects that have assigned tasks and activites in the Project for the web. Planning scenarios can be drawn up.
Deploying the Project Accelerator
To set up the Accelerator in your environment, begin by visiting GitHub. There, you’ll find comprehensive instructions on deployment, a Power BI template to use in conjunction with it, and information on the necessary licenses for operation.
Key Benefits of Microsoft Project Accelerator
- Delivers business solutions that are sensible, affordable and achievable for your organization
- Getting up and running with the Microsoft PPM Accelerator is quick and easy, reducing the cost, duration, and complexity of a typical PPM deployment
- Power Apps are preconfigured to support Gartner and PMI standards and best practices through Microsoft Project Accelerator
- Reports that help enforce better decision-making will give you a complete view of project progress and performance
- You can leverage program management for delivering strategic initiatives across silos within your organization and across geographies
- An organization's ability to adapt projects and processes for optimal results can be bolstered by quickly and accurately identifying issues to create visibility around risks