Course 4001: 1/2 day; Instructor-Led and eLearning

Introduction

This half-day, scenario-based course provides students with a better understanding of how to improve team collaboration by using Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 and other Microsoft Office 2003 applications. This course is for people who are looking to improve their business skills through hands-on exercises and facilitated group discussions on the latest trends, challenges, and technologies that are reshaping the traditional concepts of team collaboration. The integration of Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 with other Microsoft Office System tools will be used to demonstrate creative and user-friendly techniques that can lead to more effective team collaboration.

Audience

The audience for this course is experienced business professionals who rely on team collaboration to achieve business and personal objectives.

This audience recognizes the importance of standard Microsoft desktop tools in supporting team collaboration (that is, Microsoft Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word), but may not have the time or opportunity to explore how Microsoft technologies can be better leveraged in their every-day work environment.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, students must have:

Course Outline

Module 1: Trends in Team Collaboration

This module presents the current business trends associated with team collaboration. Because you and your fellow students may have different perspectives on team collaboration, this is designed to help to create a common basis of understanding on which the remainder of the course will be based.

Topics and Activities

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 2: Accelerating Team Effectiveness

This module introduces the business scenario involving a fictional company, called Adventure Works, which provides the foundation for the hands-on exercises in the course. In this module, students will create and explore a Windows SharePoint Services team Web site.

Topics and Activities

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 3: Addressing Team Complexity

This module focuses on creative ways to overcome common challenges faced by team challenges and demonstrates how students can address the complexity of virtual teams with the right combination of teamwork and enabling technologies. This module also illustrates Windows SharePoint Services as a key enabling technology and demonstrates how it can be easily integrated with a variety of Microsoft Office 2003 applications.

Topics and Activities

After completing this module, students will be able to:

Module 4: Promoting Team Creativity

This module discusses how Windows SharePoint Services can promote the creativity and skills of team members, as a group and as individuals.

Topics and Activities

After completing this module, students will be able to:

About the Author

Allen Chapel, PMP, has more than 25 years of experience in project management (PM) consulting, systems integration, and strategic planning. Since 1998, he has served as a senior consultant at Pcubed, one of the world’s largest providers of project, program and portfolio management solutions. Having managed numerous multi-year, $30 million dollar projects for Fortune 500 companies, Allen now advises client executives on topics ranging from Enterprise Portfolio Management and PMOs to formal PM Maturity Assessments. As an award-winning journalist, he has also authored and presented more than a dozen Web broadcasts for Project Management Institute and Microsoft on the latest PM trends, including the integration of project, financial and resource management, and the “projectizing” of service organizations.