Mar11
Haven’t been quite so active on the blog as of late as I’ve been working on a couple of presentations and enjoying this beautiful south Texas weather with the kids. Stay tuned as we have some good content getting queued up and due to be released in the next couple of weeks.
In the meantime, please note that I’ll be delivering three presentations at the upcoming June PMI Houston blowout (more ...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Thursday, 11 Mar 2010 04:41.
Mar3
This is a question that’s come up multiple times with folks I’ve worked with, and is something I consider best practice. The last time someone asked me about this, I figured I’d just blog it up with screenshots and send him the URL. So Daniel, this post is for you….
For years Project has had a function which remarkably few people know about, and even fewer people use – that is the intelligen...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Wednesday, 3 Mar 2010 07:57.
Feb25
There’ve been a number of good blog posts/articles in the last week or two on the basics of scheduling and project planning. I haven’t had the time to capture each and every one of them, but I thought it was worth collecting some of the best ones in a short list here. If you’re in the scheduling business, then these are well worth the time to check out.
Mosaic Projects on Metaplanning in Con...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Thursday, 25 Feb 2010 08:38.
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.
Feb19
I was doing a bit of research into bolt-on desktop reporting tools, and figured I’d post some of the results. My goal is not to point to specific 3rd party reporting packages, but rather to talk about the concept of desktop reporting tools – and propose a taxonomy that may be of help to those currently looking to supplement Microsoft Project’s native capabilities. Note that I do not intend to...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Friday, 19 Feb 2010 07:25.
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
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.
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.
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.