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Situation: You want to know which of MS Project's new features are MOST LIKELY to be what you need...
I recently spoke with Irwin Rodrigues, Global Director for Microsoft Office Project and asked "which of the new 2007 product updates are directly the result of user feedback?" He said that customers wanted a lighter, web-based version of Project, more visibility, and scalability. Here's what he specifically said about:A Web Version
“One of the bigger pieces of feedback about Project Server 2003 was that customers wanted to do more planning through Project Web Access and have less of a reliance on the full blown Project Professional desktop client. While we still expect Project Managers and Resource Managers to utilize the full power of Project Professional on the desktop, we added a number of features to Project Web Access such as the ability to capture proposals, the ability to track activity plans, and the ability to make resource allocations that do not need to be tied to specific tasks in a plan.”
Visibility
“Customers wanted more visibility and insight into their detailed project plans. With this in mind, Project 2007 introduces many enhancements on the desktop to help customers understand changes that are being made to their plans. Cell highlighting and task drivers are good examples of these. Multi-level undo was also introduced to help customers not only back-out of multiple levels of changes, but to also enable interesting what-if analysis.”
Scalability
“Performance and scalability was a big focus area for the 2007 release of Project Server. We made significant investments to move the scheduling engine to the Server, to improve the communication between the desktop client and the server, and to enable the product to scale to tens of thousands of users in a manner that just was not possible in the previous release. The early results from customers who have large scale deployments in production has been very positive.”
Posted on: February 08, 2007 11:08 AM |
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