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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

Chapter 7: Resource Manager – Staffing for Success!

In the previous chapter, we learned the foundational concepts of resourcing through the experience of the practice manager.

In this chapter, we are going to bring these foundational concepts to a centralized model and identify how a resource manager (and the Resource Management Offices) (RMOs) can create a schedule more effectively. As a result, you will be able to work with the Schedule board to optimize scheduling.

Therefore, in this chapter, you will learn about the following concepts:

  • Staffing projects for success
  • Generating bookings
  • Maximizing the Schedule board
  • Resource utilization management

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to lead the RMO and its function to improve the overall staffing and efficiency of a project's execution.