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Now THAT'S What I'm Talkin' About!!!

Dieter talks SERVER SIDE SCHEDULING ENGINE for the next version of Project Server!!!

Nice!

The Nature of Critique

Jack is Awesome! (plus anytime you can work an Apocalypse Now reference into a post about Project Management you get my vote right off the bat!)

Here he posts about the criticism of PM tools:

There seem to be two classes of people, those who think criticism is about polishing out the scratches and dents (me) and those who think that finding flaws in parts is a precursor or excuse for trashing something in the whole. I suppose it boils down to whether you believe criticism is constructive or destructive.

I would expand this by saying that criticism, and the value you can place on it, is completely dependent on which one of the two types of people Jack talks about above gave you that criticism. If it was someone of the first type (which Jack certainly is) then you can gather great value from it. If it came from the second type then delete it and have a beer to wash it’s residue and after taste away clean. Well really people of the second type should be avoided at all costs anyway and if you do a good enough job of that then you will not have to worry about getting any of their criticism on you to begin with! :-)

Old news but not very well covered: ERP Solution Starter for Project Server

Solution Starter: Project Server 2003 to ERP Connector

Source code to get you on the right track for hooking Project Server 2003 up to SAP.

Scrum Addin for Project 2003

Microsoft released a Solution Starter for Scrum.

It is pretty cool. It adds a button to the Analysis Toolbar that lets you generate a pretty cool burndown chart in Excel.

The downside is that you have to compile it yourself using VB. But the upside is that with the source available you can extend it and build on it to suite your needs.

If you are doing Scrum check it out.