MS Project 2007 - What's User-Driven?
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.”
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Posted on: February 08, 2007 11:08 AM
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On the Office Couch
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Time Killers
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| Situation: You lay away at night wondering what kind of MS application you most resemble... |
Posted on: February 08, 2007 10:06 AM
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Project Bling?
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Time Killers
Categories: Time Killers
Situation: You're kinda bored right now...  So I was thinking if I really want to attract attention at the next PMI Global Congress, I'll get one of those Egokast Video Belt Buckles and loop Five Steps to Project Management Success (below) on it (or one of the other goofy PM videos found on YouTube).
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Posted on: January 27, 2007 09:56 PM
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Thoughts on EPMConnect.com?
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PPM Software
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Situation: You're a PM in search of MS Project 2007 information...  Earlier tongiht, on Linked-in, I asked, "What do you think of EPMConnect.com?"EPMConnect.com is Microsoft's partner solution portal, which allows you to try MS Project 2007 for free online. It also offers information about and tours of MS Project partner solutions. |
Posted on: January 27, 2007 09:07 PM
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Quick and Simple Brainstorming
| Situation: You're a incredible facilitator, but have the handwriting of a 3 year old. Bubbl.us is about as simple a brainstorming tool as you'll find anywhere. Mind Manager it's not, but with a laptop and a projector, this software could be better than a marker and flip chart. As long as you don't skip over the instructions when you first open it up, it's incredibly easy to use. If you skip the instructions (like I did at first) you're kind of hosed until you go back and read them. Try this tool if: - you don't have a good way of capturing the output of your brainstorming session. (let's face it, paper and white boards are a pain because you have to go back and transcribe everything later) - the person you really want to facilitate has bad handwriting (if you can't read your own scrawl later, that's a problem too) While you're at it, take a look at the following gantthead techniques wikis: Brainstorming, Idea Qualification, and Displayed Thinking . |
Posted on: January 27, 2007 09:52 AM
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