As a PM, you are likely familiar with the way in which most projects are broken down: Initiation, Planning, Executing and Closing (monitoring and controlling would be happening simultaneously to these). When I first started project management, most everyone approached these phases as gates... Hard stops for readjustment on your way to the end. However, ou perspective changed on these over time… for the better.
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If you look inside your project server reporting DB, you will notice there are several prebuilt views which show relationships between the standard project server objects (projects, resources, etc...) and the custom fields you have defined.
What you may not realize is that the custom fields are not stateful. They only apply as meta data on resources,Projects or Tasks at the point in time when you look at them.
for instance...
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We recently had a client that thought a Project Manager had full control of their Project Server Workspace SharePoint site by default. While this can be changed, re-publishing the project will attempt to revert back to the default permission settings for the Workspace. This post enumerates what permissions a Project Manager has on the site by default…
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In this “How-To”, we will be adding a new icon we will need to use the Backstage view to access tools that will modify the Ribbon. Our goal is to make accessing the Update Tasks dialog easier. Currently this dialog can be shown by clicking on an icon inside of the Mark On Track drop down. The risk here is that novice users may inadvertently select to mark a task as on-track when what they really wanted to do was simply to show the update tasks dialog.
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This week, we released our first free public Web Part, The MSPS 2007 Workspace Milestone Web Part. A long name but it fills a simple need. When a Project Manager publishes their project to Microsoft Project Server, they will typically also create a “workspace” for that project. This “workspace” is actually just a SharePoint site, but with a few extra hooks in it to connect to the project’s issues, risks and deliverables. Usually these sites become the hub for relevant information about the project… recent status updates, contact information and more. However, basic status information is unnecessarily missing from these sites.
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Sometimes, when you plan your projects, you have a definitive start date. In fact, sometimes, that start date was “yesterday”. In other cases, though, your actual project start date will need to be moved. Perhaps this is because the project was dependent on another effort that did not finish on time. Or maybe this is due to budget or market conditions.
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