Transferring Managerial Control of a Project

J

Jeremy

Current environment consist of MS Project Server 2003 and several folks
using PWA. From what I can determine there is no way of transferring
managerial responsibilities to another user for a project. Included in this
capability I would like to be able to allow for multiple users to have the
ability to approve time towards tasks on a project. Can anyone elighten me
on how this can be accomplished as I've exhausted my research?

Thanks,
 
J

John M.

To transfer managerial control... have the "new" manager open the work plan
and choose Collaborate --> Publish --> Republish Assignments... On this
window, there are several options including a checkbox to "Become the manager
for these assignments." This can be done for a whole project or for selected
tasks.

As for time approval... a project manager "approves" time by updating the
task updates to the work plan. A resource manager can be included as an
approver only if you are using Managed Time Periods and you have enabled the
"Approve timesheets for resources" feature on the server configuration page.
Please note that the resource manager approval or rejection does not preclude
the project manager from accepting the time and updating the work plan. It
is more of an audit feature in PWA/Project Server.

Hope this helps.

John
 
R

RickD

You can also transfer ownership from in PWA. Go to Project Centre, identify
which project you want to transfer ownership of and use the Edit tab. It will
identify the current owner which can be changed.
 
I

ITG_Mike

Note that changing the owner on the Edit page in PWA will not change the
ownership of the assignments. Any time submissions by resources will still
be sent to the Project Manager that originally published the assignment, not
the current project owner.

If you want to change the person that gets the time submissions you need to
republish the assignments as described in the prior post. Or, for those that
like screwing with SQL, you can make this change in the assignment table in
SQL Server.

When we change project owner, I make the changes with SQL since I can fully
effect the ownership change without the PM needing to do anything.
 
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