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MS Project for COMET Project Management

MS Project for COMET Project Management. Mika Passila. MS Project General Info. MS Project is Microsoft’s project management software that enables project design and management in PC. MS Project 2000 is selected version. MS Project is used from own PC, not from University PCs.

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MS Project for COMET Project Management

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  1. MS Project for COMET Project Management Mika Passila

  2. MS Project General Info • MS Project is Microsoft’s project management software that enables project design and management in PC. • MS Project 2000 is selected version. • MS Project is used from own PC, not from University PCs. • MS Project has a lot of different and advanced features but only few of the are used in our project.

  3. Usage of MS Project • Task are first divided in different phases, like PP, I1, I2, I2 and DE. Just like the course is divided. One phase is scheduled as course is scheduled. • The different tasks are entered in to MS Project. They may be part of bigger entity like Studying or they may be single tasks. • Different task are partly designed by project manager and by the group. • Time to complete the tasks and the time requirements for that are partly designed by project manager and by the group.

  4. Usage of MS Project 2 • MS Project is also used to estimate the total time needed for one phase and also the whole project. • MS Project also enables to assign resources for the tasks. Then it is possible to monitor the resource usages, in some level. • MS Project also enables creation of relationships with different tasks.

  5. MS Project UI

  6. PMIX • When tasks are entered into MS Project and they are scheduled as needed. Then the project information must be transferred to time reporting system – Tirana. • PMIX is a SW offered by course that handles defined project information transfer to Tirana. • Group members then use Tirana to report the used hours by tasks.

  7. PMIX UI

  8. VICA • When tasks are reported to Tirana they can be investigated via VICA. • VICA offers nice pictures about the resource usages within the project. • Problem with VICA is that it uses non standard port (7615) so I’m only able to access that from HUT network or by using my GSM as a modem and call to HUT’s dial up server. • Nokia’s policy does not accept those non-standard port connections.

  9. Final Conclusions • Good to have MS Project for task planning. • Good that PMIX exists. • Good that Tirana exists. • Bad that the reported hours are not going back to MS Project in any way. But we have VICA. • Bad that MS Project does not work as it should be. A well know Microsoft quality ;-)

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