MS P WACCESS?

[project newby]

Quick question...

Is MS project web access worth it?

I wonder whether in actual life, members of a team will actually bother
to update the progress of their tasks via the web or use it to view how
a project is ticking along.

Thanks.

Newby

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Newby --

In the future, please post your Project Server questions to the
microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is devoted to
the Microsoft Project desktop application only. To answer your question,
yes, the PWA timesheet system is definitely worth it provided you have the
following in place for your Project Server implementation:

1. A method of tracking progress that makes sense in your organization.
2. You train everyone (PM's, team members, and executives) how to properly
use the system.
3. A project sponsor with the authority to mandate that EVERYONE will use
Project Server as taught.
4. A method for dealing with those who do not comply.

Hope this helps.

 

[mikevanpmp]

In the contracting industry we regularly see electronic timesheets tied
into a service-provider's back-end financial system. Other times, we
see a vendor such as dELTEK providing timesheet tracking services, and
they provide ICD's for integrating thier accumulated data into a
back-office financials system.

The benefits of this kind of product is that it has been approved for
use by the DCAA (Defense Contracting Audit Agency), which allows new
companies to quickly put in place an accredited system. With this in
mind, how would a MS Project-based (or even Primavera-based) timesheet
solution provide a benefit to a heavily regulated services company? It
sounds like there'd be a large up-front investment required in order to
use this timesheet system in a manner which could be certified. I'm
not seeing the benefit here. Help me out.

I know the server group would be a more appropriate place to put this,
feel free to cross-post your answer.

v/r,

Mike Van, PMP

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

With 2003, I'd agree with you. Using 2007, the story changes dramatically.

 

[Steve House]

Compliance is a matter of training and discipline more than anything else.
While we don't need to model our organization's culture off of the Marine
Corps, the bottom line is that it's not voluntary for a resource to do the
work that he's in assigned in the time, place, and manner that senior
management requires it to be done. As far as the project team is concerned,
it's the project manager who is the senior decsion maker regarding project
related work and compliance with the reporting standards that he has set is
as much a part of the resource's job requirements and evaluation as are any
other quality standards that he must meet.