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Flagging Project Owner Changes with OData and VBA
This question comes up in the forums pretty frequently, and in fact, I’d actually spec’d out a similar procedure for on-prem Project Server installs which involved hitting the Reporting Database to...
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Exporting MPP Files with VBA
Well, I didn’t deliberately intend to get into a VBA rut, but periodically, I like to clean out some of the half written posts I have lying around, and it turns out that I apparently left a couple VBA...
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Importing Files to Project Online with VBA
In yesterday’s post, I talked about how to run a script to export all of our Microsoft Project schedules into XML files. In this post, I’ll provide the script to import these into a new instance of...
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The Epistemological Year in Review: Top Posts of 2012
As the year tapers off to a close, I figured I’d continue with a tradition and list the top ten posts of the year. I know it sounds simple in theory, but much like a simple exercise in Business...
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Ruminating on Progress in 2012
The end of the year is traditionally one for reflection, an arbitrary milestone to look back at what we did right over the last year – and what we did wrong….a time to review what we’ve done to get...
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EPM Bingo, or A Structured Approach to PPM Analysis
One of my colleagues used to explain to me that there are three kinds of people that attend any meeting: There are those who feel an emotional need to share how they’re feeling about the topic. There...
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UMT in the News
Don’t know if you saw this, but on behalf of everyone at UMT, I am proud to announce that we’ve placed in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Integrated IT Portfolio Analytics. Curious what that might...
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The Schedule is the Thing
Organizations are often unable or unwilling to estimate project effort or cost. I get it. Detailed estimating is hard and requires work. A lot of times, our project has already been approved to...
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Your Schedule is Totally Mental
Folks like me often get a lot of push back from project managers as we work with their PMO to ramp up the quality of their schedules. Most often, I see complaints not about the schedule itself, but...
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It’s Like Wine and Cheese (Part 1)
That last post, Your Schedule is Totally Mental, prompted long time reader and occasional drinking buddy Magnus to chime in with two excellent questions: Do you also think that all schedules can or...
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Like Wine and Cheese (Part 2)
In yesterday’s post, I proposed a model for assessing work and assigning an appropriate lifecycle. That’s great in theory, and for those folks who deliver framework workshops as it allows us to spend...
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Happy Lunar New Year 2013!
…and to think, 12 years ago today, I was working for a Siemens vendor in China and enjoying snake broth with colleagues in Fengmei’s Beijing apartment…. In honor of the holiday, here’s a jazzy version...
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The Release Manager and the Maintenance Scheduler
Teach scheduling to any class of IT project managers, and the number one request is invariably “How do I make my schedules more predictable? How do I accurately predict important events such as...
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Strategic Decision Making in an Uncertain Reality
Still a few spots left for our upcoming webinar on a topic that’s near and dear to my heart. In this presentation we will discuss key principles of effective decision-making: * The rational and...
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A Depressing Take on the Value of Generated Content
Realized this the other day…. Filed under: Self Referential
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Timephased Capacity Reporting with OData
Catching up on the blog comments after a couple of weeks of vacation and post-vacation wheel spinning. One of the comments that caught my eye was Bram de Vries’ comment on a previous reporting post:...
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More Timephased Reporting with OData
I realized that yesterday’s post may have given the incorrect impression that you need to go through all sorts of mind bending contortions to get timephased reporting out of Project Online. The...
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Fixing SharePoint Sync Errors in Project Server 2010
Here’s a common issue I am finally getting around to blogging up: certain projects always seem to throw an error on Publish, specifically on the part of the Publish job where the Publish database data...
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Financial Governance Made Simple
Readers of this blog are probably familiar in concept with UMT’s flagship product, Project Essentials. You’ve probably heard the elevator pitch and are aware that it has something to do with financial...
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The Consultant of La Mancha
One of my parenting lessons learned is to never take your kids to a performance of Spider Man: Turn off The Dark in New York. After that, any show that doesn’t have a guy in colorful leotards swing...
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