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Hello Everyone, Thanks for taking the time to read this. I have most of my experience on the Exchange side of things. However, I find that I need to get up and running supporting Project Onli...
Hello Mark_Jones75
Items I'd focus on are:
- Understanding the PWA Admin settings panel
- When your org wants to make a change, you need to know what / how etc.
- SharePoint
- PWA is built on SharePoint so understanding the basics of SharePoint will help you support your users, certainly if you make use of the Project Sites
An old blog series I wrote - 10 years old now, but this will help you get to grips with Project Online: https://pwmather.wordpress.com/2014/07/22/getting-started-with-projectonline-round-up-ps2013-office365-project-ppm-sharepointonline-pm-sp2013/
Paul
- Understanding the PWA Admin settings panel
Mark --
Even though I marked an excellent reply from Paul Mather as the answer to your question, allow me to add one more skill that I think is absolutely essential for a Project Online application administrator. That skill is being able to understand a client's requirements, and then translating those requirements into the setup of Project Online to meet those requirements. For example, suppose that your client tells you that some projects require work to be done specifically on a weekend. How do you translate this project management need into something you set up or create in Project Online? HINT: The correct answer is that you need to create a custom enterprise Base Calendar that schedules work only on a Saturday and/or a Sunday. This custom enterprise calendar can the be used by your organization's PMs as a Task Calendar on tasks that specifically require weekend-only work.
As an app admin for Project Online, your technical knowledge of the tool will not be enough to get the job done, but it will certainly help. The additional knowledge you need is understanding how project managers actually plan and manage their projects using Microsoft Project. If you can combine these two sets of skills together, you will be a much more effective application administrator for Project Online. Hope this additional information helps.
Even though I marked an excellent reply from Paul Mather as the answer to your question, allow me to add one more skill that I think is absolutely essential for a Project Online application administrator. That skill is being able to understand a client's requirements, and then translating those requirements into the setup of Project Online to meet those requirements. For example, suppose that your client tells you that some projects require work to be done specifically on a weekend. How do you translate this project management need into something you set up or create in Project Online? HINT: The correct answer is that you need to create a custom enterprise Base Calendar that schedules work only on a Saturday and/or a Sunday. This custom enterprise calendar can the be used by your organization's PMs as a Task Calendar on tasks that specifically require weekend-only work.
As an app admin for Project Online, your technical knowledge of the tool will not be enough to get the job done, but it will certainly help. The additional knowledge you need is understanding how project managers actually plan and manage their projects using Microsoft Project. If you can combine these two sets of skills together, you will be a much more effective application administrator for Project Online. Hope this additional information helps.
Very good.. thank you! I was just studying up on how to create / configure new calendars today! 🙂