Posts from:Microsoft Project
Resource Management with Project Server 2010 – Part 1 of 2
This article, written by Collin Quiring, first appeared in Wellington Project Management newsletter on November 8, 2011. (http://www.projectserver2010.co.uk/2011/11/08/resource-management-with-project-server-2010-part-12/) There... (more...)
Budget and Cost Resources
BY Collin Quiring In our book, “Mastering Resource Management Using Microsoft Project and Project Server 2010” we concentrate on the tool itself and on Work Resources. This document is an addendum of sorts to that and is designed to better define... (more...)
Mastering Resource Management: Using Microsoft Project and Project Server 2010
BY: Collin Quiring Our book has been published! It is titled “Mastering Resource Management: Using Microsoft Project and Project Server 2010” and was written by Tanya Foster and Collin Quiring. It was written to be an effective tool for... (more...)
Isn’t Project just like Excel, or like any other Office product?
By: Collin Quiring This seems to be a question, or more often, a phrase stated as a true comment, quite a bit lately. I just saw a post by somebody that is trying to get a job and he said to the recruiter that he understood how Project worked (he thinks... (more...)
The RBS and Microsoft Project Server 2010
By Tanya Foster and Collin Quiring How can you classify your Resources so that they can be grouped in some way for security, sorting and comparing to each other? How do you classify some type of reporting structure or chain of command for your Resources? ... (more...)
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, 2011
BY: Collin Quiring Well, it used to be the “Magic Quadrant” but I guess like everything else it had to be renamed. Gartner renamed the “Magic Quadrant for IT Project and Portfolio Management” this year to “MarketScope for Project and Portfolio... (more...)
The Perfect Project Manager
By: Tim Gryder So while the title of this article is something I doubt anyone can claim, we all have to admit that we either aspire to be the perfect project manager or sponsor the perfect project manager. I say this to address the reality that is the... (more...)
Communication – Air Travel and Project Management
BY: Collin Quiring I am not a pilot, nor do I play one on tv. However, I have a number of friends that are and I have had the joys(?) of travelling quite a bit by plane in the last few years. I have also flown on charter flights and that is a different... (more...)
Project and Multi-Browser Support – this is GREAT!
BY: Collin Quiring With the Project Server 2010 SP1 release (expected in June) one of the new capabilities of Project Server 2010 will be the ability to update Timesheets and Task Status using browsers other than Internet Explorer. This is one of those... (more...)
One Version of the Truth – Culture and Microsoft Project Server
BY: Collin Quiring When talking with customers one of the observations that I often make is something like “by using Project Server you have one version of the truth”. By that I mean that there is a central location where you can obtain information... (more...)