User Guide??

[TM]

My company is looking into purchasing Project Server 2003, but the information on the product I've found so far is weak, at best (a couple screen caps and a simplistic feature tour). I would really like to know what it does, as well as HOW it does it. Is there a quality whitepaper (with plenty of screen caps) available or a user guide I can take a look at

What would be of most help to me is the User Guide (or user help , as the case may be -- DOC and CHM) that ships with the product. That way, I can see the steps involved in creating Projects and Task, the reporting options and process for managing Tasks in PWA

Once I'm confident that it does what I need, I can justify the price tag (which is significant to a small shop like ours).

I appreciate any help you can give. Please attach any docs you have to the email below (replace the .spam with .com

Thanks

TM

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

TM --

You might consider downloading the Microsoft Project Server 2003
Administrator's Guide at the following URL:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...40-147b-447a-b0d3-6088673a53a4&DisplayLang=en

Hope this helps.

My company is looking into purchasing Project Server 2003, but the

information on the product I've found so far is weak, at best (a couple
screen caps and a simplistic feature tour). I would really like to know
what it does, as well as HOW it does it. Is there a quality whitepaper
(with plenty of screen caps) available or a user guide I can take a look at?

What would be of most help to me is the User Guide (or user help , as the

case may be -- DOC and CHM) that ships with the product. That way, I can
see the steps involved in creating Projects and Task, the reporting options
and process for managing Tasks in PWA.

Once I'm confident that it does what I need, I can justify the price tag

(which is significant to a small shop like ours).

I appreciate any help you can give. Please attach any docs you have to

the email below (replace the .spam with .com)

 

[TM]

Dale

Thank you for the suggestion. That is exactly what I need, but from a user's (project manager's) point of view. The Administrator's Guide covers setting up the application, administering users, etc... but I need to see (in the same fashion) how projects and tasks are setup and managed

Do you (or anyone else reading this) have the User Guide, that I assume ships with the product? This, I suspect, will truly tell me how it is used and how it will satisfy my needs

Thanks in advance


TM

 

[Gary L. Chefetz \(MVP\)]

TM:

Shameless Plug: Consider buying our book. Dale and I are working on the 2003
edition, but the 2002 edition amply covers the topics you're inquiring
about.
--

Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
"We wrote the book on Project Server
http://www.msprojectexperts

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My company is looking into purchasing Project Server 2003, but the

information on the product I've found so far is weak, at best (a couple
screen caps and a simplistic feature tour). I would really like to know
what it does, as well as HOW it does it. Is there a quality whitepaper
(with plenty of screen caps) available or a user guide I can take a look at?

What would be of most help to me is the User Guide (or user help , as the

case may be -- DOC and CHM) that ships with the product. That way, I can
see the steps involved in creating Projects and Task, the reporting options
and process for managing Tasks in PWA.

Once I'm confident that it does what I need, I can justify the price tag

(which is significant to a small shop like ours).

I appreciate any help you can give. Please attach any docs you have to

the email below (replace the .spam with .com)

 

[RickD]

I can recommend Gary's book (as per his "shameless plug"), but I sense you are wondering how effective the solution is for a project manager

If you use MS Project today, what you see is what you get from a planning and plan management perspective, ecept a PM can plan using generic resources and then utilize the Build Team to substitute for real, available resources based upon skills matching

The server version enhances a PM's world primarily because of the integration to MS Office for notifications, timesheet approvals and management, etc.

The real bang for the buck is as the name implies: Enterprise Project Management; it provides the stakeholders with a method of tracking projects from their inception (i.e. just at the idea stage), through approvals and execution. It dramatically enhances the IT governance capabilities of an organization.