Feb19
From EPMSource via Twitter:
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/seattle10/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20100217007083&newsLang=en
Looking forward to playing with this….should be a great add-in to the tool – specifically the Portfolio Management aspects of it....
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Friday, 19 Feb 2010 03:01.
Feb15
Following up on our last two posts about authoring resource reports in Visio:
1) Creating an org chart using Resource Pool data.
2) Marrying enterprise data to an org chart.
I wanted to talk about a fundamental concept of reporting with Visio and Visio Services that’s probably self-evident in the Visio world, but requires some introduction to the Microsoft Project community at large – the co...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Monday, 15 Feb 2010 07:51.
Feb12
…still playing with the reporting options in Microsoft Office Project Server 2010 and Visio Services. This is a follow on post to our last story on how to create an org chart using Resource Pool data. In that post, I talked about how to export the resource data into the Visio Org Chart Wizard. I am still not sure why, in fact, someone would choose to do this, but one possible option would be...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Friday, 12 Feb 2010 10:18.
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.
Jan21
Continuing with the BI thread, I was demoing dynamic reporting using SharePoint 2010 Visio Services during a recent Project Server BI spiel in Houston. What struck me with the crowd, which was primarily from the oil and gas industry, was the interest in the Visio timeline. I must admit, having used Microsoft Project for so long, I kinda forgot how many folks still use the Visio timeline view ...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Thursday, 21 Jan 2010 01:12.
Jan19
This is another posting from our BI presentations last week in Houston and Dallas. This is the first part of creating a dynamic Visio report, with the second part coming out later this week. For that post, I plan to tackle the question of creating a dynamic Visio timeline linked to project data. In the meantime, this is the prerequisite information on how to modify the Office Data Connector ...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Tuesday, 19 Jan 2010 06:45.
Jan18
Thanks to everyone for turning out to the Project Server 2010 BI Reporting presentations we did this week at the Microsoft offices in Dallas and Houston. As per request, I am posting the slide deck of the Houston delivery (which has only several minor modifications from the Dallas version):
PDF Version
If you’d like to chat about the presentation or arrange an on-line presentation for coll...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Monday, 18 Jan 2010 10:09.
Jan12
One of the top client requests I often see is document automation. Many clients have bits and pieces of reusable content that they wish to automatically populate into PowerPoint or Word documents. Ira Brown of Project Widgets did an impressive webinar the other day on using macros to automatically move data from MPP files to Office files. Continuing on the BI thread this week, here’s how you...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Tuesday, 12 Jan 2010 07:40.
Jan10
It would seem to be BI Week in the Project Server blogosphere (see here and here, with an excellent recorded webinar on the topic by Marc Soester here). I guess that’s kind of like Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, but thankfully without the blood and rotting fish. Seeing as I have been spending a fair amount of time putting together a BI presentation of late, I figured I’d add my contribu...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Sunday, 10 Jan 2010 07:34.
Nov16
Parked this one aside back in September, and just realized that it never went out. Here's a flashback to what I was thinking just a month or two ago:
Watching the Ignite presentation today on the migration path from 2007 to 2010, it just confirmed that if you’re planning a 2007 deployment right now, you should deploy it as follows:
PWA in its own site collection and content db.
Project ...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Monday, 16 Nov 2009 08:26.