Understanding the deployment approach
To begin your deployment of Project Operations, you should first work to gain understanding and agreement in your firm on some key decisions, as these will have (organizational, technical, financial, business, and political) implications that the firm will be required to live with for many years into the future.
In the following image you can see Project Operation's deployment journey:
Figure 3.1 – Project Operations deployment journey
To guide the decisions, let's ask a few questions and discuss the ramifications of the answers. Remember, we are attempting to outline, across three different areas of Microsoft technology, how to configure a solution.
To understand what is involved in Project Operations deployment, the previous chapter showed Table 2.1 – The components of the Project Operations solution, which outlined the pillars of the solution.
The table shows that there are some components...
