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Since project management first became a formal discipline, status reports have been the bane of every project manager’s life. Team members hate having to stop their work to update them. Stakeholders doubt the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of them. PMOs feel as though they spend way too much trying to corral them. And leadership largely ignores them.
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“Decades-old fables about Microsoft Project’s lack of capabilities bear little resemblance to today’s reality.”
We’ve all heard the age-old myths about the moon being made of cheese or fantastic creatures patrolling murky depths or hairy giants haunting the Pacific Northwest. With experience comes the wisdom to recognize which is truth and which isn’t. Yet, some of us do still occasionally fall for a modern myth or urban legend. Just ask anyone who still believes that Elvis has never really “left the building.”
Part 3 in a series on how to extend the value of Microsoft Project Online & Project Server…
One the banes of today’s Project Management professionals is status reporting. It’s an important component of any PPM process. But’s it’s often a logistical nightmare that typically involves manual processes that suck valuable time away from more strategic activities. Data must be gathered and reconciled from disparate systems and then reports must be manually developed. Read the rest of this entry »
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