PROEJCT MANAGEMENT
PROJECT SERVER - CASE STUDIES
Birmingham City Council employs 55,000 people who deliver a range of services to the city's 1
million customers. They deployed MS Project to 100 of their project managers
across a wide array of services. Efficiency improvements were made in fields
ranging from housing to social care, to highway infrastructure.
GijimaAst Microsoft Professional Services (MPS) in South Africa is a division of information and
communications technology (ICT) company GijimaAst. GijimaAst started testing
Microsoft? Office Project Server 2007 technology in beta with 14 project
managers. It wanted to find a new solution for its project management team to
improve reporting, customer satisfaction, and time to market. GijimaAst plans to
roll out the enterprise project management (EPM) solution division_wide over the
next three months.
Black & Veatch Corporation, which has more than 90 engineering offices around the world,
specializes in energy, water, and information infrastructure design projects. A
recent adopter of the Six Sigma continuous improvement methodology, the company
experienced a sharp increase in the number of Six Sigma initiatives that it
wanted to tackle. Black & Veatch needed to find an alternative to its practice
of tracking projects using complicated spreadsheets. The company engaged
Immedient Corporation, a Microsoft? Gold Certified Partner, to implement a
solution using the Microsoft Office System. Black & Veatch estimates that the
new solution will enable each Black Belt to handle one additional project
annually and save $150,000 per year.
Retirement Systems of Alabama was juggling many competing information technology projects and had
only manual processes for managing them. The organization decided to team with
Project Assistants, a Microsoft? Office Project Premier Partner, to implement
the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution. Working
within the Microsoft Solutions Framework for top_down and bottom_up management,
Retirement Systems of Alabama developed processes and customized tools so that
it can streamline the scheduling of projects and related tasks. It reduced the
amount of time that staff members spend in organizational meetings and helped
ensure that the most appropriate resources are assigned to each project. Being
able to easily develop reports with a variety of views gives the organization
better visibility into how time is spent and provides realistic data for more
accurate planning.