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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations

By : Robert Houdeshell
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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations

By: Robert Houdeshell

Overview of this book

Dynamics 365 Project Operations is a game-changing solution set for project-driven businesses that allows you to deliver commercially successful projects in a timely and cost-effective manner, keeping the project teams productive and collaborative. With this book, you'll find out how you can bring more value to the business by winning new projects and driving exponential revenue growth. Starting with the key principles of Project Operations, you'll understand how it improves project planning and execution. You’ll then learn how to successfully deploy Project Operations along with different integration strategies and get to grips with the best approach for sales through project opportunities, project contracts, and pricing workflow implementation. This book will guide you through setting up direct staffing and centralized staffing models and enable you to manage project changes confidently by getting hands-on with project timeline management, pricing management, resource assignments, and modifications. In the final chapters, you'll find out how to use Project Operations effectively for project accounting and finance. By the end of this book, you’ll have gained the confidence to deliver profitable projects in a well-connected organization through efficient decision-making and successful customer-client relationships.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Foundation and Framework of Project Operations
5
Section 2: Project Sales through Delivery
10
Section 3: Project Delivery through Operations

To get the most out of this book

To get the most out of this book the reader should have a desire to improve their project management and operations. Anyone concerned with being able to effectively set up, staff, bill, and recognize revenue will be interested in this book. The reader should have an average level of understanding of Microsoft technology, Microsoft 365 (Office 365), and Microsoft Dynamics. The following are some basic skills that you will need:

  • Microsoft 365 framework administrator knowledge
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE administrator knowledge
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE customizer knowledge
  • Microsoft Project knowledge