Microsoft Customer Immersion Experience – CIE

Microsoft Customer Immersion Experience - CIE Just completed my US Customer Immersion Experience Facilitator Training at the Atlanta Microsoft Technology Center! What a great experience. This is not a formal training experience or a demo but a hands on facilitated exploration of Microsoft technologies including Office 365, [...]

Team Tasks and the Team Assignment Pool

Team Tasks and the Team Assignment Pool Late last year Microsoft rolled out a new feature for Team Tasks for Project Online customers. I happened to stumble upon it when assisting a PPM Works customer with configuring team tasks. Our customer has an on premise Project Server [...]

Creating Rules to Approve Task Updates in Project Web App

Creating Rules to Approve Task Updates in Project Web App As a trainer for PPM Works am I often asked about creating rules so Project Managers do not have to approve task updates. As a Project Manager that manages fixed work tasks in projects, the thought of [...]

Understanding Timesheet Approvals

Understanding Timesheet Approvals One of our customers recently asked PPM Works why the Timesheet Managers were seeing admin tasks listed separately in the Timesheet approvals and why they had to first approve the administrative time before seeing the timesheet in the approvals page. The answer lies [...]

Creating a New Calendar and Assigning it to a Task

Creating a New Calendar and Assigning it to a Task To create a new base calendar to be used in your project, you will need to be an Administrator in PPM or ask your Administrator to create a new calendar. For this example we will create a [...]