Microsoft Project Server 2010 resources
I recently have to deliver a series of workshops and trainings for one of my client about doing Project and Portfolio Management using Microsoft Project Server 2010. I will blog later on some interesting part of this area but in the meantime I wanted to share with you a list of useful resources on Microsoft Project Server 2010 I found while creating my presentation and training materials.
How to recreate a damaged msdb Database
I just face this problem in one of my projects, MSDB database was damaged and I did not have any backup of it. After Googling a long time, I found many links with some true and false tips. Finally I managed to find the correct way and wanted to share it with you.
There is one important aspect to mention here, if you recreate a new MSDB database using the method I will describe here, this will eliminate all the information stored in MSDB such as jobs, alert, maintenance plans, Database Mail… Find what the MSDB is used for in this MSDN article.
Welcome to the Process Excellence Revolution
Watch this excellent video from www.processexcellencenetwork.com
about process and how “Process excellence improves the way you create and
deliver value to customers.”
Microsoft's new releases plans (Feb. 2012)
For the ones who did not get the time to follow the news….
Windows 8
Anticipated release date: Beta expected "late February"; possible release to manufacturing on x86 and ARM between Q3 2012 and early 2013
Windows Server 8
Anticipated release date: Possible release to manufacturing between Q3 2012 and early 2013
System Center 2012
Anticipated release date: Early 2012, possibly April, to coincide with the Microsoft Management Summit event
SQL Server 2012
Anticipated release date: First half of 2012
Internet Explorer 10
Anticipated release date: Between Q3 2012 and early 2013
Office 15
Anticipated release date: Q4 2012
Exchange 15
Anticipated release date: Q4 2012
Doing Scrum in Microsoft Project 2010
Two year ago, I was involved in a project for a luxury company, and previous project manager used Scrum to manage it and the deliveries. After a quick introduction of this methodology, we used his tools (mainly Excel) to implement Scrum.
Today I would like to reuse Scrum in another project, but I wanted to see if it’s possible to use Microsoft Project instead of Excel to manage Scrum artifacts as Product backlog, Sprint Backlog and Burn down chart.
Note that this article will not explain the methodology; you can check this article in Wikipedia or watch this interesting video by Hamid Shojaee for a quick course on Scrum.
What you need to know about ITIL v3
Sometimes
you try to create THE article that contains great resource links on one
particular domain so that if someone ask you questions about it, you just answer "man, the greatest resource list in on my blog" :-). Few weeks ago, I started to collect information related to
ITIL V3, also to try to stay updated about this methodology, as
I do not practice it so often.
While
searching those videos or interesting article on Google, I found this blog
post, from Ahmad Salah, Project Manager and Process Improvement Engineer, in
Egypt (his Blogger profile is here). This kind
of information collection work that is just amazing.
Read
the article if you want to know ITIL V3.Video: How To Tell If A Project Schedule is Good
Excellent
6 minutes video, from http://www.cogtechinc.com,
presented by John Rigoli, PMP about "How To Tell If A Project Schedule is Good".
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