Integrating MSP Desktop, SharePoint, and/or Groove...
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Situation: You need to bridge MSProject Desktop, SharePoint and/or Groove 1. Already have MS Project 2003 licenses for everyone on projects. TeamDirection does not require licenses for everyone on projects. What you saw in the demo is the ability to publish and synchronize tasks from MS Project (2003 and 2007 supported, btw) to a SharePoint Task List (again 2003 and 2007 supported). Team members can then participate in the project via their browser. Since SharePoint services ship with Windows Server 2003, this can be very cost effective. 2. Already have SharePoint or Groove licenses for everyone Yes. Again we work with the SharePoint services shipping with Windows Server 2003, or we work with hosted providers running portal and SharePoint 2007. And, if you're an enterprise MS Office customer, Groove will be available. 3. Want to sitck with Tools they already have in house and are used to. Though its difficult to describe, rather than changing the process to fit our software, our software adapts to a company's process. For example, we also have a product that integrates with Mindjet MindManager and publishes topics to SharePoint and Groove. We also have another rich desktop that people can deploy so any user can see a rich gantt view of projects. And our features try to anticipate user needs to communicating in order to complete projects-- integration with Windows messenger for example. 4. Do not want to take on a big implementation effort. MS Project *Server* 2007 is built on the SharePoint |
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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.”
Scalability
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On the Office Couch
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Time Killers
Categories: Time Killers
| Situation: You lay away at night wondering what kind of MS application you most resemble... |
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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Thoughts on EPMConnect.com?
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PPM Software
Categories: PPM Software
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. |
