Houdeshel Robert. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Project Operations: Deliver profitable projects with effective project planning and productive operational workflows

Packt Publishing, 2021. — 298 p. — ISBN: 978-1801072076.Discover the endless capabilities and end-to-end project management functionalities of Dynamics 365 Project Operations to drive your firm's project success and ensure rapid business growth in the competitive digital economic worldKey FeaturesDeliver successful projects via improved collaboration, visibility, and teamwork using Microsoft Project Operations solutions
Gain real-time data insights to modernize business strategies to increase market share
Build the right project operations models to meet business needs with an optimized budgetDynamics 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.What you will learnConfigure key elements of Project Operations to drive improved collaboration with your customers
Discover how Project Operations is interconnected with Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 Platform
Understand the Project Opportunity-to-Quote-to-Contract workflow and its implications for selling
Find out how to set up and utilize direct staffing and centralized staffing models
Explore Project Timeline Management using Task, Board, and Timeline views
Find out how information flows to finance and operations in Project OperationsWho this book is forThis book is for project managers, project leads, business consultants, and business leaders who want to gain a competitive edge by delivering successful projects in a shorter time span with the help of effective operations and workflows across different teams within projects. Knowledge of Microsoft 365 and a sound understanding of business acumen and sales through the delivery process is necessary to get the most out of this book.Foundation and Framework of Project Operations
Introducing Project Operations
Using the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Framework for Success
The How-Tos of Setting Up Project OperationsProject Sales through Delivery
The Account Manager – Project Selling
Project Contracts and Pricing
Practice Manager Functions – We Won the Contract! What Now?
Resource Manager – Staffing for Success!Project Delivery through Operations
Managing the Project to Success!
Team Member Activities
Approvals and Exceptions
Project Accounting and Operations