Changes in Activity Plan Features

[Bill Busby]

We thought we were going to love the new web-based activity plans but we've
pretty much reached the 'not in my house' stage. In order for these to have
any value for us two changes would need to be made

1 - Allow more than one resource assignment per task
2 - Allow us to assign a planned effort (preferably in hours) to each
assignment

The whole 'team resource' assignment model works for small activities but we
frequently have whole teams that engage in the same type of work on the same
general activity. Having each resource assigned at 100% units means those
resources are automatically overallocated and destroys any potential to use
Project Server for resource allocation and tracking.

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[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Bill --

To my dismay, I found the same limitations that you have discovered. This
makes me sad, because as currently implemented, there are potentially
powerful features in Project Server 2007 that are practically useless.
Thanks for sharing!

 

[Marc Soester [MVP]]

You are so right. The potenital of the Activity Plan features is there, but
the limitations make it only usable in very certain situations.

I have put a blog together on my discoveries. For all of you that are
interested on
what you need to consider when using the web function:

http://marcsoester.blogspot.com/2007/03/proposal-and-activities-things-you-need.html

Hope this will give you some idea

 

[BillO at EPKGroup]

Did you have a look at EPK-Planner at http://www.epkgroup.com/planner.htm? I
work at EPK so I'm biased.

Bill

 

[Marc Soester [MVP]]

Hi Bill,

Good to hear from you and greetings from Australia
The EPK Planner looks great and resolves some of the issues we are facing
with the out of the box functionality - just like EPK did for 2003

Thanks for that, looking forward getting my hands on it
--
Marc Soester [MVP]
State Manager: EPM
http://marcsoester.blogspot.com