This was the title of a session I attended at the Microsoft SharePoint Conference this week. At the session, I was shown out-of-the-box, two way synchronization between a MS Project 2010 file and a SharePoint 2010 list. I was impressed, and loved the idea of having my project teams update tasks, on our project team site, and having that updated data in my project file to do further analysis and reporting for my project sponsors.
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Are you relying on SharePoint alerts? Many organizations have immediate, daily or weekly alerts configured. They send an email message to users when content within SharePoint has been added, changed, and/or deleted.
It’s been my experience that SharePoint alerts can stop working and getting them running again can be tricky. Here’s the step-by-step process I run when daily alerts are broken.
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I’ve been an IT project manager for over 13 years, and there have been many occasions where the effort to develop and maintain a complete MS Project project plan has been critical to a project’s success.
Continue reading “When MS Project isn’t worth the effort, what do you use?”
Typically, when starting a new project the project manager spells out each of the required team members and their skills, the team members’ roles and responsibilities, and finally, their task assignments. This is spelled out in a Project Roles document and provides clarity and helps to ensure accountability for the project team. Unfortunately, I’ve found that the Project Sponsor is often left out of the Project Roles document. And, in one too many occasions, the Project Sponsor is not accountable for his/her role.
Continue reading “Is Your Project Sponsor an Asset or Liability?”
Well, I am a bit of neat freak so having old, inactive SharePoint sites lying around became a problem.
Continue reading “Ever Want to Do Some Spring Cleaning to Your SharePoint Portal?”
