P6 Web vs. Project Server

[Goobie]

Ok here is a twist. I have used MS Project and P6. When it comes to
building Project Plans I prefer Project.

At my old company we used P6 for the Project managers.

When the Project Managers wanted to update their project us project
planners would create a reflection project.

The PM would go make their changes....we would review them and then
merge them into the parent project on P6.

Does Project Server 2007 offer a similar option?

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Goobie --

In the future, please post your Project Server questions in the
microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is dedicated to
the Microsoft Project desktop application only. To answer your question, no
there is no such thing as a reflection project in any version of Project
Server. However, in Project Server 2007, the project manager can get a
Preview of the changes that the system will make to a project if the project
manager approves the pending task updates. Hope this helps.

 

[Andrew Lavinsky]

Let me see if I can translate that into Microsoft Project terms:

1) take a project file and copy it/save it offline from the Server.
2) Make changes to the project file. (What sort of changes?)
3) Review the deltas.
4) Import the deltas back into MS Project.

That's a bit tricky with MS Project, although the Compare Project Versions
gives you some of that functionality. It kind of depends on what changes
the PM is making.


- Andrew Lavinsky
Blog: http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/epm