Looks like I’ll be speaking on Project Server at the Houston Techfest on October 9, 2010. (More Information) We’ll see if that MVP designation makes everyone think I am smarter – or if it just unreasonably raises their expectations. The event is free, so I can definitely guarantee that if you attend my presentation, you…
This is the next post in a series describing how the Portfolio Analysis pieces of Project Server 2010 work under the hood. This post will discuss how the Scatter Chart is calculated and provide an Excel model for assessing how it works. I wrote this post as part of an exercise to make sure that…
I forget at times that Software Engineering is a young discipline. At times I am frustrated that it is not easier to measure good software and good software developers. The following gives some insightful perspective: ——————– Measurement can progress from lower to higher scales as societies, organizations, and practices mature. An illuminating example: We can…
I use Live Mesh on all of my workstations so that I can easily connect to them via it’s Remote Desktop utility. It’s really handy when I’m at a client, traveling, or on vacation. According to the Live Mesh website it says “Live Mesh will soon be replaced by the new Windows Live Sync”. I…
This is the next post in a series describing how the Portfolio Analysis pieces of Project Server 2010 work under the hood. This post will discuss how the Strategic Alignment chart is calculated and provide an Excel model for assessing how it works. I wrote this post as part of an exercise to make sure…
As more and more admins install Exchange 2010, they are quickly faced with an error message. What is the first thing that admins want to do when configuring the mailbox role?…create production mailbox databases and delete the default database that Exchange installed. Well, Exchange 2010 installs a few special mailboxes on the first database. Oh…
This is the next post in a series describing how the Portfolio Analysis pieces of Project Server 2010 work under the hood. This post will discuss how the Efficient Frontier is calculated for a portfolio of projects. I wrote this post as part of an exercise to make sure that I understand what’s going on…
Well, a very pleasant surprise this afternoon when the plane landed and I checked my e-mail. Lo-and-behold, it would appear as though I now can add three more letters to the IT alphabet soup already on my name card. I am very excited about this. To keep things in perspective, my kids couldn’t care less…
In an environment where we have done a lot of work to use custom groups for subscriptions a good question was asked of me recently – “How do I backup and restore my Channels, Subscriptions and Subscribers?”. This is a reasonable question because based upon our tests we have done in our environment as follows:…
A while back I wrote a blog entry on how to move Live Maps from a QA environment to a production environment (available here). When I added the new maps, I renamed them to remove the QA names in the Savision Live Maps authoring tool. While this worked (mostly), there was an annoying issue which…
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