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.
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.
After completing this
course, students will be able to:
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Describe current trends
in team collaboration and its role in helping organizations to achieve
business objectives. |
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Recognize how new teams
can quickly achieve operational readiness under complex, time-driven
circumstances. |
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Identify and resolve
problems that can threaten team success. |
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Better utilize the talent
and creativity of individuals in a team environment. |
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Leverage Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft Office 2003
technologies to help promote team collaboration. |
Before attending this
course, students must have:
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Experience as a business
skills worker who often participates in complex team environments (directly
or indirectly) as a manager, supervisor, team leader, consultant, or subject
matter expert. |
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A working familiarity
with standard Microsoft Office applications (such as Outlook, Word and
Excel), as well as a general awareness of Web navigation tools, such as
Microsoft Internet Explorer. |
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Hands-on experience with SharePoint Services 2.0 is beneficial, but not required. |
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
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What Is Team Collaboration? |
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Exercise: Identifying Key
Traits of Team Collaboration |
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Traditional vs. Virtual
Teams |
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The Challenge of Virtual
Team Collaboration |
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Expert Video: Industry
Trends in Team Collaboration |
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Demonstration: Microsoft
Windows SharePoint Services |
After completing this
module, students will be able to:
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Describe the business
concept involving team collaboration. |
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Identify the primary
traits of team collaboration from your work experience. |
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Explain the basic
differences between traditional and virtual team environments. |
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Describe the current
challenges of virtual team collaboration. |
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Recognize recent trends
in team collaboration based on an experts insights. |
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
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Introduction to Adventure Works |
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Establishing Team Priorities |
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Exercise 1: Exploring
Windows SharePoint Services |
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Exercise 2: Reviewing
Team Web Site Features |
After completing this
module, students will be able to:
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Describe the overall
business scenario used in this module. |
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Examine the priorities of
a team leader when creating a virtual team environment. |
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Recognize some of the
essential activities that occur during the creation of a virtual team. |
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
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The Challenge of Team
Complexity |
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Exercise 1: Managing Team
Documents |
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Exercise 2: Solving Problems |
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Exercise 3: Streamlining
and Improving Processes |
After completing this
module, students will be able to:
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Describe the key factors
of team complexity, and the challenges that are often faced in a virtual team
environment. |
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Explain how team
documents can be shared, updated, and controlled from a central Web
repository in Windows SharePoint Services. |
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Recognize how team issues
can be effectively tracked and managed in Windows SharePoint
Services and then downloaded to Microsoft Office Excel for more in-depth
analysis. |
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Identify ways to
streamline and simplify processes by using Microsoft Office Visio and Windows
SharePoint Services to improve team and
organizational performance. |
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
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The People Side of
Collaboration |
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Exercise 1: Brainstorming
in a Virtual Environment |
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Exercise 2: Responding to
Client Needs |
After completing this
module, students will be able to:
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Understand the importance
of creativity and innovation, especially for teams working in a virtual
environment. |
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Describe how teams can
effectively brainstorm ideas using a central Web site designed specifically
for that purpose. |
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Utilize creative
concepts, such as online surveys, that can deliver fast results and improve
client and/or management relationships. |
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 worlds 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.