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...
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Monday, 19 Jul 2010 03:52.
Jul11
Looks like I’ll be speaking on Project Server at the Houston Techfest on October 9, 2010. (More Information)
We’ll see if that MVP designation makes everyone think I am smarter – or if it just unreasonably raises their expectations. The event is free, so I can definitely guarantee that if you attend my presentation, you will at least get what you paid for.
Hope to see some of you there…...
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Sunday, 11 Jul 2010 10:01.
Jul11
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 the Scatter Chart is calculated and provide an Excel model for assessing how it works. 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 pi...
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Sunday, 11 Jul 2010 09:49.
Jul7
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 the Strategic Alignment chart is calculated and provide an Excel model for assessing how it works. 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 t...
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Wednesday, 7 Jul 2010 08:05.
Jul2
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 the Efficient Frontier is calculated for a portfolio of 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 tha...
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Friday, 2 Jul 2010 08:57.
Jul1
Well, a very pleasant surprise this afternoon when the plane landed and I checked my e-mail. Lo-and-behold, it would appear as though I now can add three more letters to the IT alphabet soup already on my name card.
I am very excited about this. To keep things in perspective, my kids couldn’t care less & my wife suggested I celebrate by mowing the lawn.
Thank you everyone for the ongo...
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Thursday, 1 Jul 2010 08:18.
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...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
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 ...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Saturday, 19 Jun 2010 09:04.