Jun28
This is the next post in a series describing how the Portfolio Analysis pieces of Project Server 2010 work under the hood. This post will discuss how portfolios are impacted by forcing in or out specific projects. I wrote this post as part of an exercise to make sure that I understand what’s going on in Project Server – as well as making an initial attempt to lay the pieces out in a way that ...
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Monday, 28 Jun 2010 10:33.
Jun25
Here is the next post in my series describing how the Portfolio Analysis module works in Project Server. I wrote this post as part of an exercise to make sure that I understand what’s going in Project Server – as well as making an initial attempt to lay the pieces out in a way that my clients would understand. My goal is to develop an Excel-based model that takes the same inputs as Project Se...
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Friday, 25 Jun 2010 11:02.
Jun24
DISCLAIMER: (Just to make sure this is clear, I am adding this disclaimer to the posting.) The worksheet referenced below is not a competing product to Project Server 2010, and does not contain references to any proprietary code. It was developed based on publicly available information as an Excel mock up of the server-side portfolio optimization calculations found in Project Server. The g...
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Thursday, 24 Jun 2010 07:42.
Jun19
In my previous post, I gave an example of how Pairwise Analysis works, and presented a conceptual model in Excel of the driver and project prioritization engine within Microsoft Project Server 2010. That model worked well with simple driver prioritization scenarios, but seemed to display a wide variance with Project Server calculations in more complex scenarios. This left me unsatisfied, and ...
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Saturday, 19 Jun 2010 09:04.
Jun17
Thanks to everyone in Houston for attending my three presentations yesterday. I am already envisioning a couple of ideas to pitch for next year’s conference. (How does Project Management Lessons from Genghis Khan sound to you?)
Here’re a list of references that came up in discussion in the final session on MS Project 2010 changes:
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Thursday, 17 Jun 2010 08:27.
Jun15
Chatting with a mentor from a previous life recently as I prepped for a presentation, and he pointed me to this excellent 1986 article by Herbert Simon, the late Nobel prize winning social scientist. If you’re attending my PMI Houston presentation on Project Teams as Innovation Systems on Wednesday, then this would be a great follow up (or even pre) read.
It’s an overview of the state of deci...
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Tuesday, 15 Jun 2010 07:50.
Jun10
Change management has been on my mind of late as I prepare for an upcoming presentation on EPM Tool deployments.
Here’s a particularly relevant post from Matt May, who wrote the Elegant Solution, one of my favorite books on innovation (the other one being Berkun’s Myths). He also wrote In Pursuit of Elegance, from which I pinched part of the fractals discussion for another upcoming presenta...
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Thursday, 10 Jun 2010 07:25.
Jun1
I’ve seen a couple of questions posted to the online forums of late asking about how the Portfolio Management heuristics work in Project Server 2010. Since I know that I will have to explain this to my own clients, I figured that I would take an initial stab at demystifying how the portfolio optimization calculations work. As a disclaimer, note that I refer to this process as “Pairwise Analys...
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Tuesday, 1 Jun 2010 10:02.
Jun1
Nice post from Ganesh on the GJ Tech Blog yesterday on adding daily timesheet comments to Project Server 2007 (and presumably 2010).
Make sure to check it out:
http://gj80blogtech.blogspot.com/2010/05/daily-timesheet-comment-in-project.html...
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Tuesday, 1 Jun 2010 07:59.