Changing the Project Manager
During the lifetime of a project it is sometimes necessary to change the Project Manager (due to a leave of absence). The process to do this has changed between 2003 and 2007. There are three areas to be concerned with 1. Changing the Project Manager; Changing the status manager; replacing any PM resources. Before you […]
How to move a sub Project Workspace to another programme site.
Introduction This blog details how to move the WSS workspace between sub-sites. This may occur if a project is moved between programmes (setting up a programme is discussed in this blog here http://appleparkltd.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!EB0688A7A6F04E1D!307.entry Process Overview By default, Microsoft Office Project Professional 2007 creates a project workspace site on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 when it publishes […]
Creating the Perfect Plan
Introduction Okay, so there is no such thing as the perfect schedule, but there are good and bad practices for creating a schedule using Microsoft Project. Some other tools don’t allow some of these bad practices, but Project just goes ahead and lets you do it – this allows lots of flexibility but if you’re […]
Fun with Analysis Services!
<dry – again!> Gee’d on by too many nights in hotels, I started briefly messing around with Analysis Services, and I started thinking that there must be so much you can do with this tool than the basics that you get out of the box. My main reason for this was that I wanted to get […]
Master Projects
<red plonk> I have to admit, I do like Master Projects, Microsoft appear to have got these right in this edition of Project Server and overcome the limitations of double resourcing that existing in 2003. History Master Projects have been around for ages, and have generally been used to get a programme type view of […]
Deliverables
<budvar> Moving back to the scenarios, I wanted to give a rounded overview of Deliverables. Historical implementation of deliverables. A deliverable is a tangible and measurable result, outcome, or item that must be produced to complete a project or part of a project. Typically, the project team and project stakeholders agree on project deliverables before the […]
Migrating from MSDE to SQL2005
<black sheep> This blog is a move away from the scenario based blogs on PS2007 that I’ve been writing, instead it’s an overview of a situation that I think will become more common as organisations upgrade their project server databases (and WSS2.0) to SQL2005 (either from SQL2000, or in some cases there is a requirment […]
Timesheets – What are they, what do they do?
<Oyster Bay Merlot, NZ> Introduction Timesheets are a completely new area for PS2007. Okay, so PS2002/3 had a button labelled “Timehseets”, but the main function was task statusing, rather than a true timesheet system. So, Microsoft have invested a whole lot of time in this functionality, but the Timesheet functionality is therefore a v1.0 release, […]
Team Assignments
<London Pride> One of the really neat features that will solve lots of business issues is the new team assignment feature. Team assignments are a very easy concept to get your head around, but not particularly intuitive to set up. Once set up though they really work well, just follow a few basic principles and you’ll […]
Resource Plans – How to use them with a rolling project plan
<dry> As discussed in my previous post EPM2007 allows for some new scenarios regarding resource management. This blog discusses using a resource plan in conjunction with a full blown project plan (termed an Enterprise Project), which enables us to perform rolling plan management. For the purposes of this blog I have defined an Enterprise Project […]
How to plan and track operational resources and time
Resource Scenarios – How to plan and track operational resources and time (café latte) EPM2007 allows for some new scenarios regarding resource management, specifically regarding assigning resources to operational plans (and of course activity plans). Microsoft have a specific type of project plan called an Activity Plan which can easily be is used for operational […]
Oh no, not another project server blog…
(Leffe Brune…) Oh no, not another project server blog… or maybe, yippee, perhaps this blog will provide some answers? It depends on where you are coming from and what you are looking for, but if, like me, you are thinking that the whole MS EPM 2007 solution is now very big compared with 2003 and […]