Jul19
I wasn’t planning on pushing anything out today, but a couple of really good blog posts on Project desktop caught my eye, and I wanted to make sure you all saw them:
1) Dale Howard from MS Project Experts on deploying the default 2000-2007 macros to Project 2010. These macros have always been underused and underappreciated, but the Format_Duration macro has saved my project plans on many o...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Monday, 19 Jul 2010 03:52.
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:
Support Forums:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Foru...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Thursday, 17 Jun 2010 08:27.
May10
Feeling a bit nostalgic as of late. Perhaps it was seeing Dan Aykroyd grand marshalling a parade over the weekend. More likely, it’s the Project 2010 release happening this week.
For some reason, the event has made me a bit nostalgic for versions of old. I started poking around the Internet and found the following link, which is sure to tug at the heartstrings of those who’ve been using MS...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Monday, 10 May 2010 08:08.
Apr18
The fine folks at with the Microsoft Product Team issued a request for the community to help them out with real world reporting examples (here). Borrowing from the current Windows 7 campaign concept, this prompted me to come up with my own reporting wish list for future versions of MS Project. Note that most of this functionality is available currently through various workarounds, Excel acrob...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Sunday, 18 Apr 2010 05:04.
Apr12
Looks like a good series of posts from newly minted Project MVP, Alex Burton – How to extend the Project 2010 Backstage:
http://epmsource.com/2010/04/11/extending-the-project-backstage-getting-the-data/...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Monday, 12 Apr 2010 08:16.
Feb11
More along the lines of playing at the intersection of Visio reporting and Microsoft Office Project Server 2010. The question I was looking at today was how to export the Resource Pool from Project Server into an organization chart format in Visio. I used the Microsoft demo image and was able to generate a rough Contoso org chart as appears below:
The first question is why would anyone wa...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Thursday, 11 Feb 2010 06:02.
Feb5
I’ve seen this question show up a couple of times in the forums for Microsoft Project 2010….whatever happened to the Copy Picture to Office Wizard tool? – or as I like to call it, the CPOW (pronounced KAPOW).
Here’s the tool in 2007. If you squint your eyes, it looks kind of like a camera with a blue lens:
…or it can be found in the Reports menu.
And here’s what it looks like in 2010. ...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Friday, 5 Feb 2010 08:30.
Feb3
A lot of folks ask in the newsgroups how to save a Project file to Access. This may be done for a number of reasons:
Connecting to a reporting structure. (See an old article by Neville Turbit on project reporting in Access)
Connecting to a SharePoint front end. (Richard Fennell’s take on Access Services in SharePoint 2010, a video demo of Access Services 2010)
Interacting with homegrow...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Wednesday, 3 Feb 2010 07:02.
Jan27
I’ve attended a couple Microsoft Project 2010 events as of late, but of yet, I haven’t seen this functionality getting much play. On first glance, I think this could be one of the most compelling new features added to Project: the task level Active field.
Usage Scenarios
Scenario #1: The project manager has been requested to calculate the cost and schedule impact of a potential change order....
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Wednesday, 27 Jan 2010 07:58.