Announcing the availability of Office 365 Project Time Reporter!
The Office 365 Project Time Reporter iOS app announced last fall is now available in the Apple Store. This app enables team members to submit timesheets and report progress on tasks tracked in Project Online. Learn more on Office Blogs.
Which tool when: Project or Planner?
There's a reasonably new project management tool in play. When should you use Microsoft Project versus the newer Microsoft Planner? There are pros and cons to both and it's important you know them before getting started.That,and proponents of Project may be going overkill now that there's a user-friendly 'competitor'. Here's some guidance to help you along the way.Hopefullyyou find this info useful!https://icsh.pt/ProjectOrPlannerProject Online Resource Engagements update
A quick update, the Resource Engagements feature will not be automatically enabled for all on the 22nd September, this has been delayed. New PWA instances created will still have the engagements feature automatically but existing PWA instances with Resource plans will not be automatically updated to engagements in September.Project Online and Azure DevOps Integration
Any ideas on the plan for Project Online and Azure DevOps integration? The process for TFS to Project Server on prem is no longer supported. Predefined field maps only available connectivity, so not really a solution we can use. How are others replacing the TFSFieldMapping? Thanks!
Wrong place, wrong time
Turns out Project has nothing to do with wired and wireless display technology, who knew? (I'm not going to fill the forums with joke content, I swear. I know this is only my first post and I don't have a reputation to back that up, but please don't put a warning on my account or anything.)
Project for the Web, Project Accelerator and Teams
Good Afternoon all, First time poster and great to be here. I am the head of Programmes and Projects for a SME and I have implemented Project for the Web and the Project Accelerator to great effect across my organisation. A client has asked us to implement for them however, due to the complexity of their organisation they have multiple, separate "organisations" under a single tenant (not for discussion here ). Due to this segregation, We have had to install a dedicated instance of Project for the Web and the Accelerator in a dedicated Power App environment (Not Default). The issue we now have is that we cannot integrate Project for the Web with Teams Channels and by extension, implement tasks directly to Engineering Team Planners. While the accelerator continues to provide great project and reporting solution, the lack of integration with Teams seriously reduces its effectiveness as a collaboration tool. Research to date indicates that only Project for the Web installed in the default instance (not best practice) will integrate with Microsoft teams. I post this out of hope than expectation however, can anybody out there in the community advise whether they have successfully resolved this challenge? I look forward to your responses.Making effort calculations work in Project for the Web (P4W)
Dear all, we are having a hard time with "efforts" in P4W since the system is directly calculating the hours based on the number of assigned resources and the duration of the task. This does not reflect the reality in most organizations so a manual entry of the correct effort is needed. Since this feature seems to be missing for now I'm wondering how all of you are working around this lack of flexibility right now. I came up with the following scenarios but none seems to be a great fit: Scenario 1 - Split tasks Create one tasks with the correct effort but ignore the due date and create a milestone to indicate when the task needs to be completed. Advantage: Effort would reflect correct # of hours Drawback: First task would instantly appear as running late or late Scenario 2 - Ignore efforts in P4W Create single task and only pay attention to the duration. Outsource any effort and resource management to another system. Advantage: Gantt chart view would look correct. Drawback: Requires a separate system foreffort and resource management. Any PowerBI reports are still reporting nonsense. Scenario 3 - Extend P4W to outsource efforts to a custom object Use custom CDS entity to store the actual efforts. Advantage: Effort calculation would be correct and appear in the same system. Drawback: The efforts cannot be entered in the project.microsoft.com user interface Please let me know if I missed a scenario or share you best practice! Thanks, MartinWhat Users Struggle to Understand about Project
I frequently get asked for training on Project, but I find it's difficult to help users really understand Project. Not just what it does, but how to set up their projects the right way. I'm wondering what you find are the must know ideas to get the most out of Project.
