Microsoft Project 2010:Significant changes
filed in Productivity Management, Project Management on Oct.10, 2009
It looks like MSFT are planning big things for the new MS Project 2010. I recently got re-acquainted with project at work and will look forward to news on MS Project 2010
Simple and Intuitive User Experience
- Project Professional and Project Server both use the Fluent User Interface (aka Ribbon), based on Microsoft Office. This helps users discover new tools relevant to what they’re doing at the moment.
- Intuitive Excel-like behavior adds the ease-of-use of Excel to the power of Project’s scheduling engine.
- Powerful new views like the Timeline View and Team Planner.
- Web-based project editing brings the power of Project to the web.
Enhanced Collaboration and Reporting
- Built on SharePoint Server 2010 to bring the power of SharePoint’s business collaboration platform with Project’s advanced portfolio management. It also shares the same interface as SharePoint.
- Easily create reports and dashboards on the fly.
- Better time and status reporting.
- Connect teams with SharePoint Sync to allow two-way round-trip synchronization of tasks and schedules. This allows team members to update their status on SharePoint and stay more connected as a team.
Unified Project ad Portfolio Management
- Common experience across full PPM lifecycle, including centralized administration.
- Flexible project capture and initiation so that organizations can also capture work that may not be part of a project yet.
- Enhance governance through workflow.
- Powerful portfolio selection analytics.
Scalable and Connected Platform
- Extended interoperability with other Microsoft products like Exchange Server so that team members can report status directly from Outlook, for example.
- Simplified Administration.
- Rich Platform Services make it easier to connect with 3rd-party products.
- Enhanced Developer Productivity through integration with Visual Studio.
Microsoft Project 2010 builds on the Microsoft Office Project 2007 foundation with flexible work management solutions and the right collaboration tools for occasional and professional project managers, and includes a pathway to more advanced project and portfolio management capabilities as business needs evolve.
