Hi
New SQL 2005 Reporting Service Report Pack for Project Server 2007 has been released
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Bilal Okour
Ms Project, the road that lead to the real managment
Hi
New SQL 2005 Reporting Service Report Pack for Project Server 2007 has been released
Follow this link to download
Best Regards
Bilal Okour
Hi
If you are asking about the differences between different editions of MS Projects 2007 then I can till you that there are three different editions
If you are interest in knowing the different features each is providing then I recommend you to read this article from Microsoft
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/project/FX101757931033.aspx
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Bilal Okour
Another great post for leaders and managers
http://ravenyoung.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!17376F4C11A91E0E!4030.entry
Enjoy!!
Bilal Okour
I read this from Microsoft Project 2007 Team blog and would like to share it with you as I found it very useful
here we go
Group By, It's Great! (http://blogs.msdn.com/project/archive/2007/11/30/group-by-it-s-great.aspx)
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Bilal Okour
Hi again
As you might noticed that MS Project assumed (by defaulting) all tasks are efforts driven, what does this mean?
It means when MS Project do scheduling then it will maintain the Work value the same. Now you remember my equations in one post, if not I will put them again
Black color indication that MS Project will maintain the value of that field fixed when rescheduling
As per the options 1 and 2 you noticed that we fix either Unit or Duration.
By selecting the Effort Driven option the following should be considered
I hope this will help you
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Bilal Okour
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Till me, what do you call a Camcorder, a material or work resources , ok
another question, what do you call the Video Tapes being used in this Camcorder? a material or work resources?
Regardless of what was your answer here is the correct ones
Camcorder is a work resource, are you using this resource for one time only, then it is not a material resource
Video Tape is a material resource, because it will be consumed
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Bilal Okour
If you are working in multi-projects organization and want to share some resources among projects then the only way to do so is to use Resource Pool.
you can use resources from different projects without using the resource pool but the resource availability can not be controlled for both projects as there is no common information about the resource is shared between them
So, adding the resource to the resource pool will help you in
MS Project provide Enterprise Resource Pool as a solution for this issue, to access the ERP you can open MS Project professional 2007 and go to Tools ==> Enterprise Options ==> Open Enterprise Resource Pool
if you want to add more resources to your ERP then go to Toos ==> Enterprise Options ==> Import Resources to Enterprise
Some notes about ERP
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Bilal Okour
Simply
Resources: The people, equipment, and material that are used to complete tasks in a project.
Assignment: When you assign this specific resource to a task then it become an Assignment
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Bilal Okour
Opps, have you ever asked your self this question, are you writing something that no body reads??
Don't get upset for a while, you have to spend more efforts in catching the eyes to your blog, here are some advises for you, feel free to re-distribute it
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Bilal Okour
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When selecting a resource to your project then you need to specify the booking type of this resource and only you have 2 options
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Bilal Okour
When selecting a resource to your project then you need to specify the booking type of this resource and only you have 2 options
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Bilal Okour
MS Project is using 3 type of tasks
Now, for me I like to use equation to illustrate these three type simple
D=W/U (D: Duration, W: Work, U stands for Units)
Now if we played with this equation it can be show in different ways
This is very important when planning for your project tasks
Note: For Units,I mentioned in case 2 & 3 that you can increase or decrease the Units, what I meant by increasing or decreasing it is either increase and decrease the Units for the resource or adding more resource, in both ways you are changing the Units
and remember that using PMIS incorrectly will lead to fatal failures
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Bilal Okour
The question is : Does MS Project 2007 or any other project management application really manage your project??
for my opinion, the answer is NO. MS Project does not manage the projects, but it SUPPORT you in doing this. Managing project is a job that you as PM need to do but you need badly a PMIS solution to support you when in come to take decisions. This what MS EPM solution is all about.
Now we come to the point. Use MS Project correctly so it will help you taking the right decision at the right time, otherwise you will get nothing out of it, so be carefully
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Bilal Okour
Project 2007 binds calendar through different approaches
Now which one dominate the others??
let say simply it is like the following
Rule 1: Task Calendar will overwrite the Resource Calendar
Rule 2: Resource Calendar will overwrite Project Calendar
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Bilal Okour
This is a very important note where every PM should be aware of, please read it carefully
Resource availability does not prevent you from assigning a resource to work beyond a period of availability or assigning more work than resource time available. Instead, Microsoft Office Project 2007 uses these availability values to calculate when resources are overallocated and flags the resource accordingly. A resource is considered overallocated when the sum of all assignment units for a given period exceeds the resource's maximum units.
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When adding a resource to your project or to the enterprise you should understand the following so that you can deal easily with Add Resource dialog box
General
Resource name Shows the name of the selected resource.
Initials Shows the resource's initials or other abbreviation that identifies the resource.
Email Specifies the resource's e-mail address.
Group (Important for later on) Specifies the group to which the resource belongs. If you enter a group name, you can sort resources by group or apply a filter to show information about specific groups.
Code Specifies a code for the resource, such as a cost center code.
Booking type
Proposed Specifies that the addition of this resource is considered tentative.
Committed Specifies that the addition of this resource is considered definite. This is the default booking type.
Type
Work Select this resource type for people, equipment, or facilities that are assigned to a task and are not consumed during the task. This is the default.
Material Select this resource type to track consumable resources, such as steel, that are to be used in the fulfillment of the project.
Cost Select this resource type to track budgetary items, such as travel costs, that are not dependent on the amount of work or the duration of a task.
Material label If this is a material resource, this box becomes available. Enter the unit label for the material resource. For example, for lumber, you can enter Linear Feet, to track linear feet of lumber for the project.
checkbox (you can say they are attributes)
Generic Specifies that the resource is an account of skills required for a task, rather than an actual resource.
Budget Specifies that the resource is a budget item.
Inactive Indicates whether the resource has been deleted or otherwise removed from the resource pool (resource pool:
Availability
Available From Enter the resource's start date for the current level of maximum unit availability. If NA is entered in the Available From field, this means that the resource's starting availability is the same as the project start date.
Available To Enter the resource's finish date for the current level of maximum unit availability. If NA is entered in the Available To field, this means that the resource's ending availability is the same as the project finish date.
Units Type the number of maximum units available for this resource during the period of time specified in the Available From and Available To fields.
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Bilal Okour
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Dear All
I just want to re-broadcast this news item as I read it from AME site (http://www.ameinfo.com/141793.html)
and here is the content:
"Bill Gates will be the keynote speaker at the Microsoft Government Leaders Forum Arabia 2008, to be held 27-28 January 2008, at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi, marking the first visit of the Microsoft chairman to the UAE. The theme for this year's forum is 'Accelerating Arab Competitiveness.' During the course of his visit to the UAE, Gates will travel to Dubai for a series of high-level discussions."
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Bilal Okour
It is still in beta time, but it really worth a try
check
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Bilal Okour
Armed with the information about project management contained in this article and the rich functionality of Project 2007 discussed in our book, you are off to a great start with Project 2007."
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/project/HA102354821033.aspx#Managing
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I have read this article, it is really cool
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/project/HA101567921033.aspx
but be aware that the name of the ER terms have been changed in the last PMBOK 3 edition as the following
Old Term | Old abbr. | New Term | New Abbr. |
Budgeted cost of work scheduled | BCWS | Planned value | PV |
budgeted cost of work performed | BCWP | Earned Value | EV |
actual cost of work performed | ACWP | Actual Cost | AC |
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Traditional resource types are
In Enterprise environment we have two domains
So accordingly the resources can be classified as the following
Now the resource also can be classify according to the certainty
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Bilal Okour
For whom who are using MS Project to develop the the project's tasks schedule they used to do the following
ok, let us go back to the bold step "Then assign the resources", well, but according to PMI methodology there is a missed step which is
For example: the task "Installing MS Sql 2005" required the following skills
So, i can imagine that when assigning resource for "Installing MS Sql 2005" then system should not show me the name of our chairman for example as one of the available resources !
It should list only
Right!
otherwise you will find yourself building non realistic plans for your project
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bilal okour
Have you heard about it but I am sure that you face it and may be get affected by it some how
Ok, let me put it in different way
imagine you are the owner of some business and have some talented people working with you
Now you are getting a lot of projects and you are looking for qualified people to run them
Well, i guess you will not go for other than the options listed below
So, which choice you find your self welling to pick up, but please don't go to option 1, it is the halo effect, promoting the most experienced guy technically to PM will lead to
you are thinking of hiring person from outside, ok, well, assume that you have a qualified person in your team who feel that you should have selected him, you will lose him too
So, for me I would like to go for option 3 or 4 and i liked 4 (my name is not Kamal and i am not any business owner :) )
So what do you think
As usual, when i am free i have one thing that can turn me busy again, browsing the net, and guess what I found
Something called "Microsoft Live Photo Gallery", this sounds cool for me as a person who is Photos editing fan :)
So, within a second I started downloading that thing, and within couple of minutes the installation start and I found myself setup another thing called "Microsoft Live Installer" which include in turn another couple of cool staff like
To start download please click here
http://get.live.com/photogallery/fromspaces_overview
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So, me personally I can build my team from the enterprise resources but I don’t like the idea of having shared resources as a lot of conflicts will take place accordingly
The installation went smooth and it is a matter of wizards which you just need to keep the defaults as is and go ahead
I have done and I noticed that the installation of Project Server 2007 installed also the WSS to be used to create the Projects' sites
Note: As usual WSS when installed occupied the port 80, so make sure that you are not running any web application on this port, if you have the only solution is to move them to new port
The server that I selected to be used as Project Server 2007 had a production web site, (I knew about it but that was the only server that I had). I created another virtual directory under the Share Point Site and selected "Redirect to URL" as the location of the directory
So, now I have everything is running and ready for the next step
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Bilal Okour
So, for each post, i will be market to which lanes the post belong, PM theory or MS Project
So, let me start the first step in the 1000 mile road
I hope this will help the others who selected to come to this road
Bilal Okour