We use sharepoint as one of the part of PMIS as it can be integrated with other MS tools like MS project , TFS etc Saving Changes...
Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
Lots of great use cases posted. I use it SharePoint as the central point for items related to a particular project. Synced with my schedule, contains project artifacts, and centralize discussions, status updates, minutes, etc. I am able to showcase a dashboard of sorts with a timeline, project overview, and quick access to discussions and documents. This, plus, governance, security, compliance - all the underlying, fun, important stuff. Saving Changes...
Anna SannerProject Manager| WAGO Kontakttechnik GmbHMinden, Germany
we use SharePoint also for reporting to top management (besides things already mentioned see above) Saving Changes...
Sharepoint brings together all documents of an organization. - We keep all customers related data; it saves time as we can go to specific folder to get information. - Design and development documents - in case you need to set up review and approval process - Testing and quality team - they can upload all test cases - the whole organization now has access to the quality documents - Templates - employees now don't have to reinvent the wheel
So there are limitless possibilities about sharepoint. It is a good tool for large, distributed organizations. Saving Changes...
Nicolas EgiaianProject Manager| Kapsch TrafficcomBeccar, Buenos Aires, Argentina
In my case, we use Sharepoint for managing both Project and Operations. But in terms of PMIS, I´m trying to present a new web-based tool to the company to gather common information of every project executed since the first one. And as I work on a Matrix organization I´m trying to think on some navigable web to access information both from Department and Project perspective. If anyone know some tool that has already solved this kind of approach or any template, please share.
The one SharePoint functionality that is usually under-utilized is lists. You want to take time to set up logs and registers as SharePoint lists. This avoids the problem of having to check out a whole document in order to update one item.
Be careful also of not over-versioning your documents. I had one client who wanted to have the minutes of daily meetings saved as multiples versions of a master document. While you can do that, it can make it overly complicated to find an exact set of minutes. Saving Changes...
Peter A CampanellaDirector, Compliance| iconectivOcean, Nj, United States
As a PMIS it cannot be beat, it is fairly ubiquitous and easy to control if you have the correct rights management established. A feature that can also be helpful is workflow. Saving Changes...
Diego FerrerManaging Principal| Quant16Chicago, Il, United States
Great document repository, easy to catalog, indexed and you can add notifications and workflow Saving Changes...
I use SharePoint as a PMIS, but, historically, not everyone has liked it. That's improving now that we are also using Office 365. It also helps when I show people how to open document libraries in Windows Explorer. Document libraries are probably the biggest sticking point for users, that I have experienced. Saving Changes...
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