Feb12
Reposting content from Matt McD’s blog:
Announcing Catapult Systems Web Cast Series
Catapult Systems is taking the most popular in-person events and producing a series of web casts.
SharePoint 2010 Webcast Series
Wednesday, March 17th - 11:00am CST: Managed Metadata
Wednesday, March 31st - 11:00am CST: Social Computing
Wednesday, April 14th - 11:00am CST: Search
Wednesday, Apri...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Friday, 12 Feb 2010 08:11.
Feb2
Reposting teammate Rafael Perez’s invite to what is sure to be a scintillating (or at least mildly interesting if you’re into such things) evening talking about search capabilities in SharePoint 2007. Come away with ideas of how to optimize your SharePoint based PM Information System.
SharePoint TechDive: http://www.sptechdives.com/
The event is at the Catapult office at Richmond & the ...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Tuesday, 2 Feb 2010 08:24.
Feb2
I am not sure how the Austin PMO LIG stacks up, but the Central Ohio one I used to attend was a great forum for sharing ideas and mixing with local program/portfolio managers. This event is at the Texas Association of School Boards.
From the invitation e-mail I received yesterday…
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Have you wondered at all buzz regarding SharePoint and Project Management? Well, come join us for a de...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Tuesday, 2 Feb 2010 08:23.
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.
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.
Jan11
This seemed topical (from Matt McDermott’s blog).
Austin SharePoint User Group: Insights
Sid Atkinson, Sr. Lead Consultant, Catapult Systems, will provide an overview of the great new Business Intelligence features of SharePoint 2010.
This session will cover the Insights Business Intelligence platform in SharePoint 2010. Microsoft made a significant investment in BI and has made available ...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Monday, 11 Jan 2010 01:56.
Nov19
Here’s what’s evolved into my own personal method of documenting security for a MOPS implementation. Figured that I would throw this out and welcome any and all suggestions on how to improve this.
MOPS 2007 security can be broken out into two major chunks: functional requirements and configuration specifications:
Functional Security Requirements
Functional MOPS 2007 requirements m...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Thursday, 19 Nov 2009 05:18.
Sep8
Like many Project Server folks, I have been heavily using the Playbooks tool to move settings hither and thither in multiple Project Server environments. A couple scenarios where I might use the tool would be:
1) Restore system settings to a VPC for security testing, planning, or just to help develop screenshots for documentation.
2) Move system settings from Production to Training.
3) R...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Tuesday, 8 Sep 2009 06:38.
Aug24
Vaughan Merlyn has a great post on his IT Organization Circa 2017 blog on how hard a consulting company should push its clients in adopting organizational change. On the converse side, it also discusses what a client should expect from a consulting company that implements tools supporting organizational change.
http://vaughanmerlyn.com/2009/08/24/how-hard-should-management-consultants-push...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Monday, 24 Aug 2009 12:50.
Aug24
Thanks to all of you who attended the webinar we held on 8/19/09 on Building a PM Information System with Microsoft Technologies. If you didn’t make it, or would like to catch it in reruns, the recording of the session is posted here: mms://videos.catapultsystems.com/Marketing/EPM3.wmv.
A PDF version of the slides is also available: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm/Media/PMIS%20-%20EPM...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Monday, 24 Aug 2009 07:14.