Posts from:Microsoft Project
NULL Task UID – might be a bug, might not be
BY: Collin Quiring The Background: We are using Project Server 2010 with Timesheets and have Project Managers and Timesheet Managers. Resources are assigned to tasks and the Resources report time weekly in the Timesheet page of Project Web APP (PWA). ... (more...)
Does the organization play together? (Part 2 of 5 – Setting Expectations)
BY: Collin Quiring In part one, (click here) we explained how OPM (Organizational Project Management) and OPM3 (Organizational Project Management Maturity from Project Management Institute) helps the entire organization and increases an organization’s... (more...)
Approval Center History Sorting Bug – Project Server 2010
BY: Collin Quiring We have run into this a number of times in the last year and so we are just documenting it here. In Project Server 2010 in the Approval Center you can look at the History of the approvals that you have accepted or rejected. And,... (more...)
Does the organization play together? (Part 1 of 5 – The Concept)
BY: Collin Quiring I sometimes feel like George Costanza on Seinfeld when he talks about Worlds Colliding! For most organizations, no single area can work in isolation. Everything affects everything. But, some organizations become so large or... (more...)
Preview Updates – Grayed Out in Ribbon – Project Server 2010
By Collin Quiring In Project Server 2010, part of the process of the Update Cycle from Team Members to the Project Manager is for the Project Manager to use the Approval Center and Accept or Reject that tasks. One of the options for the Approval Center... (more...)
Process Status Field
By Collin Quiring I was teaching a class on updating tasks in Project Web App for Project Server 2010 and was asked a few questions about the Process Status updates field shown in the default My Assignments Process Status column. I went through a couple... (more...)
Microsoft Project 2013 Certification – Don’t Take it Here!
By: Collin Quiring Any regular reader of this blog knows that PMP Specialists is a Microsoft Partner specializing in Project Management and Project Server. And, I personally have taken the certification tests since the 2003 version. Lately, I have... (more...)
Project Professional and the Disappearing Format Tab in the Ribbon
BY: Collin Quiring The way the ribbon works is that the format tab will automatically appear based upon the view that you are in at the time. And, the options that the ribbon contains at that point are based upon the view so that you have options that... (more...)
Compatibility – IE 10 and PWA
BY: Collin Quiring As more and more of my users get Internet Explorer (IE) 10 I am getting questions about error messages. To clarify, as of this writing, IE 10 and Project Server 2010 don’t play well together. Some screens within Project Web App... (more...)
The Risk of No Replacement Plan
By: Collin Quiring I see the world through the prism of Project Management. Lately, I have been thinking about the Risk of a key person leaving an organization – a succession plan. When Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation I was surprised... (more...)