Rahim WalkerRegional Vice President | InnotasCa, United States
I’ve heard 8-10 weeks and 3-4 resources at a minimum is required. Is that true? Saving Changes...
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Stéphane ParentSelf Employed / Semi-retired| Leader MakerPrince Edward Island, Canada
Assuming you're treating the upgrade as a project, I don't think 8-10 weeks is unfair for what is arguably an enterprise application. I remember one upgrade, ten years ago. It took that long just for the planning. Saving Changes...
I think the tool has to go hand-in-hand with process... so a key consideration is your process maturity - how established your PPPM processes are to be able to support this Project Server implementation. Saving Changes...
I think the duration would vary based on many factors including
* Resourcing, - their level of expertise, whether internal or externally resourced, etc.
* Scope - Application upgrade or hardware as well?
* Procurement lead time
* If data migration is a factor or not
* How robust your QA processes are, and the associated (valuable) overhead.
* Whether or not you're setting up in a lab/test environment first.
I guess in my opinion there may too many factors to respond generically :) At the same time you may know that a typical server upgrade in your organization takes X amount of time, then use that estimate as a starting point and edit based on the variances.
We use to say no two implementations are the same. How many stages are there? How many servers? How far have you gone in terms of customization and integration? Which version are you coming from? How much data is there, how well-structured is it and what will be migrated and even re-structured etc.?
There are just too many variables. I hope you get the details soon to ensure planning based on facts.
The resources required and the time it takes for the upgrade of the MS Project Server is exclusively dependent of you own IT Infrastructure requirement and IT resilience and backup solution that you have in place. A fresh install of MS Project on a new Server and a cut off point for use on the old server architecture can could be converted into "archival purposes only" could be on an approach to help speed things up. Something like a test and live environment for testing managers. Saving Changes...
I recommend you to create WBS & do effort estimation with team responsible for up-gradation. To be honest, my gut feel says 8-10 weeks is more than sufficient provided 3-4 dedicated resources are involved. Saving Changes...
