EPM: Centralized or decentralized?: white paper (Project Server 2007)

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Topic Last Modified: 2016-11-14

This white paper describes how organizations need to understand the problem they are trying to solve when deciding on implementing a project management system. Sometimes deploying a centralized project management system may not be the best answer. This white paper is one in a series that is written by Chris Vandersluis of HMS Software, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

To download this white paper, click EPM-Centralized or Decentralized?: white paper (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=207890). (File size: approximately 33 KB).

The following white papers by Chris Vandersluis are also available for download:

• Top-down or bottom-up: white paper (Project Server 2007)

• They say they want a resolution: white paper (Project Server 2007)

• Dashboard directions: white paper (Project Server 2007)

• Enterprise system best practices: white paper (Project Server 2007)

• Creating an EPM Deployment Plan: white paper (Project Server 2007)

• The Bat phone: white paper (Project Server 2007)

• Balancing the matrix: white paper (Project Server 2007)

• The executive connection: white paper (Project Server 2007)

• The project management system maturity model: white paper (Project Server 2007)

• The challenges of selecting enterprise software: white paper (Project Server 2007)

• Resource management: white paper (Project Server 2007)

• GPS assistance in roadmapping an EPM deployment: white paper (Project Server 2007)

• A phased approach to deploying enterprise project management: white paper (Project Server 2007)

• Being a solutions buyer: white paper (Project Server 2007)

For more information about Chris Vandersluis, see the "From the Trenches" column located on the Project Server 2007 TechCenter (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=208602) on Microsoft TechNet.