There are many differences between Project Professional, the desktop client application, and Project Online, the online service. Broadly speaking, Project Online and Project Web Access (PWA) for Project Server enable team collaboration, task management, lightweight project management, and program or portfolio management. The differences between lightweight project management in Project Online and rich desktop project management in Project Professional warrant understanding.

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Project Professional and Project Web App now allow you to instant message, voice or video call, or send email with one click using Lync in the most common views. This makes getting quick answers from your team members, fellow PMs, or other stakeholders easier than ever.

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Hi, my name is Matt, I’m a PM on the Project team and I’m here to talk with you a bit about the improvements that we’ve made to the timesheet experience in the new version of Project Web App. Over the course of the next couple posts I’ll talk about improvements targeted at both end-users, backend administrators, and developers that streamline the timesheet process and provide increased functionality to make you more effective.

In my first post I’d like to chat about the improvements that we’ve made for end-users, the people who actually have to fill out their time card every week or so. Here on the product team we realize that one of the most tedious, and yet common, tasks that many users have to complete using Project Web App (PWA) is filling out their time card. To help ease the pain and make it faster for you to get back to your actual work we’ve made several improvements to the experience in PWA 2013.

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We’ve re-imagined the Start experience in the new Project with our users as the focus. We want to welcome you to Project and make the experience of using the app intuitive and easy.

The new Start experience is engaging and it helps you to quickly create and find your most recently used projects. You can also take a quick tour of the key features in the new Project and get started with planning your project in no time.

In the rest of this post, we’ll take a look at the new Start experience, Getting Started, and Templates.

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In a previous post we detailed some of the improvements that we made to timesheets in Project Web App (PWA) 2013 targeted at end users. While end user improvements are great because they impact the largest audience for PWA we didn’t want you to think that we’d forgotten the administrators and developers either! To be fair, some of these improvements are just as much for the end users as they are for the administrators in making life easier for everyone, but who doesn’t like a win...

Brian Kennemer over at Deltabahn , a Microsoft Partner specializing in Project Server deployment consulting, recently updated his Thanksgiving dinner project plan and we wanted to share it with you all. You can download the .mpp file here . This is just a guide, but a great example of how flexible the tool can be and how it can be used to improve everyday activities. If you don't already have a copy of Project 2010 be sure to download the trial here , give it a try, and tell us what you think! And...

Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Microsoft Project Standard 2010, Microsoft Project Professional 2010 and Microsoft Project Server 2010 has been released to the Microsoft Download Center. SP1 contains a number of products updates based on customer feedback, as described in this announcement last May: Announcing Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Project & Project Server 2010 . Before you install SP1 it is essential that you understand its content described in the links below, and thoroughly read the guidance...

Hello--I’m Jon Kaufthal, Program Manager on the Project team. A key focus of mine for our upcoming Project Professional 2010 release is the new Team Planner , and I’m excited to introduce you to Team Planner today. The main idea behind Team Planner is combining the power of the Gantt chart with the simplicity and familiarity of the Outlook calendar. Team Planner lets you: 1. Easily see your team’s work laid out over time 2. Quickly spot problems 3. Drag and drop to resolve those...

Some people start up Microsoft Project with the greatest intentions. They add a few tasks, and then freeze--unsure of what to do next. In this webinar, we’ll show you how to get past that. We’ll demo the basics so that you can get started with more confidence and less stress. 

The video recording will be up shortly.

What you will learn at Tuesday's webinar

• How to add tasks to a project
• How to link tasks together
• How to assign people to tasks...

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For Project 2013, we've added some new online templates to help you get started, as well as we've updated the template process. Please read on to learn more about the popular new templates.

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