For those of you out there that connect Microsoft Project to Project Server/Project Online/PPM, you have probably come across this but like many others ignored it on several occasions. When you first launch Microsoft Project, you are prompted to select which ‘Profile’ or ‘Account’ you would like to connect to. You will also notice there Read more about What Does ‘Load Summary Resource Assignments’ in Microsoft Project do?[…]
In Project Server 2010, project managers used the ‘close task to update’ feature to stop team members from recording time against certain tasks. But in Project Server 2013/Project Online, Microsoft has got rid of the ‘Close Task to Update’ – In Project Server 2013, Microsoft has introduced the Locked field which essentially behaves the same Read more about How to close tasks to update in Project Server 2013/Project Online/PPM[…]
The Team Planner view was introduced in Microsoft Project Professional 2010, (it’s not available in Project Standard). This view allows a user to visualize assignments within a project schedule and is particularly useful for visualizing overallocations within your project team. Last week while teaching our ‘EPMA 100’ – Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2013 course, Read more about Team Planner fixed in Project 2013[…]
This is the first of a series of blogs in which I intend to cover some of the most important aspects of scheduling. These are some leading practices that are applied by many seasoned Project Managers, but are often missed by someone new to the world of Project Management. These are just some of the Read more about Leading Practices used when creating a Project Schedule – 1[…]
While most companies are open to hiring contractors for their projects, they are still skeptical on giving them access to their network. We have many clients that, while want contractors to work on their project and provide input to the project schedule, do not like the idea of granting them access to their Project Server. Read more about Microsoft Project 2010–Save for Sharing feature[…]
After publishing a Project on Project server 2010, you go to see the status of the queue, you find that the job for ‘Sync to Reporting’ fails. An easy way to catch this is when you run a report that is pulling data from a Projects that fails to sync with the reporting database, you Read more about Sync to Reporting Database Fails[…]
Continuing on from Part 1 of this blog post, our next step is to add the SSRS Report we generated to the Workflow Status page. Adding the SSRS Report to Workflow Status Page If you did not already, create a Project Detail Page (PDP), and set the type of the PDP as Workflow Status For Read more about Workflow Visualization # Project Server 2010–Part 2[…]