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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
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Section 2: Project Sales through Delivery
10
Section 3: Project Delivery through Operations

Learning about reporting and analysis

The purpose of reporting and analysis is to provide performance metrics to the users of the system who are responsible for project performance. To provide this, we have a few options that will provide value to the system.

With project Operations, dashboards are provided out of the box. As you may recall, Dashboards are available from Home | My Work | Dashboards. This section will provide you with dashboarding information that can be leveraged by your users.

Project Operations Dashboards

Project operations Dashboards are specifically designed visual graphics that are built upon views of the data in project operations. Specifically designed for the personas in use in a project business, these dashboards can have security assigned to them, expanded to include more data, and are generally made into what the users want and need to manage for the project business.

When viewing dashboards, you get to choose your dashboard and set it as a default...