Admin Projects - Again

[eswb10]

I have followed the many discussions regarding using admin projects
following the procedures that Dale Howard recommends. My only question
is that if I create an admin project using that process, should that
project be published as a regular enterprise project, or should it be
published using the "Administrative Project" switch on the Save File
dialog box?

TIA -

Mark

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Mark --

Thank you for your kind comments regarding my suggestions about using
administrative projects. If you follow the posts in this newsgroup
regarding the default administrative project feature in Project Server 2003,
you will quickly find many frustrated users.

Because of the limitations and problems with administrative projects, Gary
Chefetz and I recommend that you use a regular project set up to function
like an administrative project. If you follow our recommendations on how to
do this, please note that you MUST teach your team members to increase the
Remaining Work on any admin task whose Remaining Work has dropped to 0
hours. If your team members do not do this, and select the Current Tasks
option in their PWA timesheet, then the admin task will be hidden because
the system thinks the task is completed, and thus, is no longer a "current"
task. Therefore, the training must be a part of your implementation of
regular projects that function like administrative projects. Hope this
helps.