Monday, November 20, 2006

EPM Version Comparison

Many users may not be aware of the changes within Project Server 2007 and Project Server 2003. Microsoft provided a very good comparison that may be of interest for some of you
http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/help/HA101759371033.aspx

Friday, November 17, 2006

Resource Plan

Isn't it excellent that you can actually create a resource plan for your project now. This will make resource planning much easier. I wonder why you can only plan for "real" resources and not for generic resources? This is most important if you have a large project and only know that "in 6 month time i need 20 Developers".

Resource management is hard as it is, it doesn't matter if you have tools or not, but at least if I can plan for generic resources as well, I can create a picture of what resources I require in the future.

Maintenance and Proposal Resourceing

I really like to Proposal and maintenance functionality of PWA ( especially because it is a PWA function. ) What I cannot understand is that you can only assign one resource to a task when you create your schedule. I would have thought that it would have not been so hard to allow users to choose more then one resource for a task. Lets hope that this may changes in the RTM.

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Active What?

After starting to seriously using PWA there are certainly some parts that would need some special attention, but overall, the functionality of PWA has become so much better. Once they actually get writ of the Active X component our lives will be much easier.