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Over at my firm, HMS, there’s a great case study on the use of TimeControl at EXFO.  EXFO has been a TimeControl client since 1999 and recently they were gracious enough to allow us to interview them and do a case study on their use of TimeControl.  EXFO wasn’t a publicly traded company when we first sold them TimeControl but they sure are now.  The company has expanded enormously since our first visit there years…

“So, what were you trying to accomplish here?” It’s a common question that I’ve had to ask of many project management office managers. Because of my background in enterprise project management systems, this mostly happens in response to some request to review a problem with a project management system implementation. Over the years I’ve been called upon to try to fix, repair, re-establish or just replace a failed or problematic project management system and my…

Project and Project Server and SharePoint October 2007 Cumulative Update Updates for Project Server 2007 This include a number of fixes, so Microsoft strongly recommends that you test this in a test environment based on your production environment before putting this fix live in production. The article below provides information on how to deploy the Project Server Cumulative Update. Deploy cumulative updates (Project Server 2007) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd239177.aspx Service Pack 2 for both WSS and Office Servers…

Project and Project Server August 2010 Cumulative Update From the EPMGuidance Blog: www.epmguidance.com   Project / Project Server 2007 Individual Product Packages: Description of the SharePoint Server 2007 hotfix package (sts-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276469 Description of the Project Server 2007 hotfix package (Pjsrvapp-x-none.msp; Pjsrvwfe-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2276475 Description of the Office Project 2007 hotfix package (project-x-none.msp): August 31, 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2289175 Server Rollup Packages: Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Cumulative Update Server…

I’m a child of the 60s. Born in 1958, I was 8 years old when the original Batman TV series came on the air in 1966 and only 10 when it wound up in 1968. It lasted a 120 episodes but the impression it made lasts to this day. In the world of Adam West and Burt Ward who played Batman and Robin, there was a ‘bat’ solution to everything. No matter what the problem,…

  Microsoft has released a cumulative update for Project Server.  Such updates typically include components of both Project Server and Microsoft Office SharePointe Server (MOSS).  You’ll find the relative information below. Webcast on the June Cumulative Update: Information About Microsoft Project and Project Server Cumulative June Update How to deploy cumulative updates for Project and Project Server http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd239177.aspx Rollup Packages: This is a set of two rollup packages which contains all the fixes for WSS,…

So, it’s time to bring it all together. You’ve used your talents thus far to choose the perfect project management software system; to implement it perfectly within your organization and to train your personnel within an inch of their lives. Now, it’s time to fulfill on some of those promises you made to management when they approved the budget in the first place and to integrate the project management system with other systems in the…