A very common problem people have when building their schedules is they have more work to do than they have budget for. We hit this problem all the time on the Project team when we are doing feature work (we just have so many good ideas for features thanks to all of your feedback). In the past when building budgets, we’d create multiple plans or even, aak, use Excel. Thanks to Inactive Tasks in Project 2010 Professional, we can now easily do this in Project. Before I get into the details, let...

At the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Los Angeles we are announcing the Project and Portfolio Management Partner of the Year 2011 winner and finalists! We want to take the opportunity to recognize just a few of the wonderful Microsoft Project Partners that help our customers implement, maintain, use and build applications on Project 2010 and Project Server 2010 . Congratulations to PTC! First of all, congratulations to the Project and Portfolio Management Partner of the Year 2011, PTC ! PTC...

We are pleased to announce newly redesigned Solutions Page that is highlighting the key solutions built on Microsoft Project 2010 - including: Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Integrating PPM and Application Development processes helps to improve visibility across projects throughout their life cycle. It ensures project managers and developers can follow their own methodologies supported by different productivity tools, while remaining seamlessly connected with each other. Application Portfolio...

I was in San Francisco recently to receive an award on behalf of the Project team from the Project Management Institute College Of Scheduling (PMICOS), the award presentation was happening in the context of the PMICOS Conference taking place this week. It’s great that Microsoft Project got recognized as having “significantly contributed to the project management scheduling profession” among a crowd who until recently was more inclined to lean towards traditional players such as...

[ Update February 7, 2012 – please check this recent white paper and videos on a similar subject: Leveraging Office 365 for Project Collaboration Success ] We are pleased to announce out-of-the-box integration of Microsoft Project Professional 2010 with SharePoint Online in Office 365! Extend the power of Project to your whole team—no matter their location! Project managers can collaborate with teams to share schedule details quickly with Project Professional 2010 and SharePoint®...

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...

It’s my pleasure to announce that Microsoft received the highest rating possible in the recently released Gartner Project and Portfolio Applications MarketScope. This report is an evolution of the 2010 Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Project and Portfolio Management (PPM). Specifically, Microsoft received a “Strong Positive” rating . You can see the full rating table at the bottom of this blog post and download the report at http://www.gartner.com/technology/media-products/reprints...

If you are a customer - whether you are considering, evaluation or implementing Microsoft Project and Portfolio Management Solution 2010 you will benefit from leveraging the Microsoft Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Partners – our world-wide partner community - that have deep knowledge, proven experience and bear the logo of the PPM Gold or Silver Competency Level. The Gold Competency Level partners demonstrate best-in-class expertise within PPM competency. If you are in doubt –...

The Project Road Map for 2010 has been released. The road map is a collection of 12 project management scenario “user goals” and overview map that help users navigate from pm methodology to Project’s feature set. A number of enhancements have been added to the 2010 version. Pm maturity design . Examples for each phase of project management have been designed to lead user from beginner to advanced levels. Here is one example from the cost user goal displaying the extensive “Examples...

I am excited to announce the release of SharePoint Lifecycle Management Solution with Project Server 2010 produced by Jornata . Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provides a vast number of capabilities that empower both business users and IT to create solutions quickly. For this reason, many organizations consider implementing SharePoint as a central platform to address a wide array of business solutions. For those organizations, it is likely that they will need a good way to track, manage, and prioritize...