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...)
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...)
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...)
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...)
How do I know???? Project Professional Versions and Consistency
BY: Collin Quiring The February Cumulative Update was recently released for Project Professional 2010. As with most updates, this brings a few questions to mind. How do I know which version, or build, of Project Professional 2010 is on my computer? How... (more...)
Random Thoughts – New Book, Certifications, Force Check-ins and Agile
BY: Collin Quiring I always wonder why a blog goes silent. While it takes great discipline and scheduling to update a blog on a regular basis, there are plenty of folks that do it. For a long time I was able to do it as well. However, for a number... (more...)
Project Server 2010 – Departments
BY: Collin Quiring First things first – I want to give credit to Microsoft for having some great documentation! I have been working with Microsoft Project for many years and started becoming very involved with the tool starting with the 2000 release.... (more...)
Let Me Count The Ways…
BY: Tanya Foster Have you ever noticed that there is more than one way to do the same thing in Microsoft Project? I didn’t specify a version, because I’ve noticed it in multiple versions of Microsoft Project. That’s one thing I love about Project…... (more...)