Can there be more than one owner of a Plan in MSP 2007

[anovak]

Can two different people simultaneously have the right to republish
plans? Some here believe that republishing plans is "low-level"
work that should be delegated to an administrative assistant to do
(i.e., "republish all the plans in the department") and have the PM
perform other tasks pertaining to the plan (add tasks, re-assign
people, etc.)

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Andy Novak
UNT

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Andy --

There can ony be one Owner for an enterprise project in Project Server 2007,
but you can have a Manager for the project that is different than the Owner
(what I would call a proxy Manager). To do this, the Project Server
administrator would need to grant the proxy Manager access to the projects
in question by creating a new custom Group and Category for this purpose.
Then the proxy Manager could open each project, set him/herself as the
Status Manager for every task, and then save and publish the project.

By the way, the scenario you describe is very typical in the construction
and engineering fields, in which a Scheduler is the "hands on" manager of
the project, and the project manager has high level oversight
reponsibilitities for the project. Hope this helps.

 

[anovak]

Andy --

There can ony be one Owner for an enterprise project in Project Server 2007,
but you can have a Manager for the project that is different than the Owner
(what I would call a proxy Manager). To do this, the Project Server
administrator would need to grant the proxy Manager access to the projects
in question by creating a new custom Group and Category for this purpose.
Then the proxy Manager could open each project, set him/herself as the
Status Manager for every task, and then save and publish the project.

By the way, the scenario you describe is very typical in the construction
and engineering fields, in which a Scheduler is the "hands on" manager of
the project, and the project manager has high level oversight
reponsibilitities for the project. Hope this helps.

Thanks Dale. Is that what EPM calls the Status Manager?

I also noticed on a blog recently that someone has written server-side
code that will run nightly and auto-publish selected groups of plans.
We may try that.

http://blogs.msdn.com/project_progr...s-based-off-a-project-custom-field-value.aspx

Best,
Andy