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The Microsoft Office Project Initiation Tool is an add-in for a Microsoft Office-based Six Sigma solution that enables you to easily capture and rank new project ideas, approve them, and initiate the project within Microsoft Project Server 2003 SP1. The tool tracks the progress of each idea through its approval process.

The Project Initiation Tool is a Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003 sample solution that simplifies the process of capturing and ranking project ideas. These ideas are logged in a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services list for comparison and selection. You can approve selected ideas using the same InfoPath form. This results in the creation of a Six Sigma project environment, including a full Microsoft Project Server project and a related Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services site.

The form is fully customizable to address the particular business needs of the organization deploying the Microsoft Office Project Initiation Tool. This example solution includes selection criteria and associated metrics for calculating the potential success factor for the project idea and illustrates how to customize and use the tool. There is accompanying documentation that provides further guidance on how to customize and use the tool.

The Microsoft Office Project Initiation Tool is designed to work with the Sample solution for Six Sigma. However, with some customization of the Project Data Service (PDS) method, you can use this tool with any implementation of Project Server 2003. The accompanying documentation provides details of the required modifications to the PDS method.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to October 2015.

• Additional Requirements

          Microsoft Office InfoPath 2003

The Microsoft Office Project Initiation Tool download file (MOPIT1.0.exe) is a self-extracting .zip file that contains the client-side component (MOPIT1.0.msi).

To download the Microsoft Office Project Initiation Tool (MOPIT1.0.exe):

1. In the Files in this Download section at the bottom of this page, click the MOPIT1.0.exe link.


2. Do one of the following:

• To start the extraction immediately, click Open or Run this program from its current location and specify an extraction location on your computer.



• To copy the download to your computer for extraction at a later time, click Save or Save this program to disk and specify a location to save the .exe file on your computer. Double-click the .exe file to extract the installation files.

1. In the Files in this Download section at the bottom of this page, click the MOPIT1.0_Guide1.0.exe link.


2. Do one of the following:

• To start the extraction immediately, click Open or Run this program from its current location and specify an extraction location on your computer.



• To copy the download to your computer for extraction at a later time, click Save or Save this program to disk and specify a location to save the .exe file on your computer. Double-click the .exe file to extract the solution accelerator guide.

1. After you have downloaded the MOPIT1.0.exe file to your computer, locate this file in the folder you specified in step 2 above.


2. Double click the MOPIT1.0.exe file to start the extraction process.


3. In the WinZip Self-Extractor dialog box, specify the folder to which you want to extract the files and click Unzip.


4. Go to the extraction folder you set in step 3 above.


5. To install the InfoPath template, click the MOPIT1.0.msi file and follow the setup instructions on the screen.

1. Delete the guide and MOPIT1.0_Guide.exe from C:\MOPIT1.0\Guides or the folder to which you saved the guide.


2. Delete all files in the C:\MOPIT1.0\ folder or the folder to which you saved the template installation program.