necessary groups and categories to represent my company's organisa

[Juerg]

Hello

I have a question about the number of groups an categories which are
necessary to build my company's project organisation.
The membership of our groups like project manager, team leader, .. changes
for every project. So I created for every project the specific groups for all
the roles used in the project. The result is, that I got a project manager
group for project A, project B and so on. Is this correct or is there a
better way doing this?

If I create all the groups, do I also have to create categories for every
project or may I use the default categories?

Thank's for your help,

Juerg

 

[Gagan Goel - MCP PMP]

Juerg,

You need to set up security based on what the organization requirements are.
Which will include identifying the roles and their data access requirement
and then design security groups for just those profiles.

Creating security groups for each project may not be a good idea, what
happens if your organization ends up creating 1000 projects, it will lot of
maintenance. But create groups for an organization e.g. PM for IT Department
1 or PM for IT Program 1. But again lot of it depends on what is the
requirement.


Please review this article to further enhance your understanding as not
every requirement will be feasible in this solution.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms422445.aspx

Please do rate the post if you feel it iwas helpful.

Gagan

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Juerg --

You are going down the WRONG path, my friend! And in the process, you are
creating way more work for yourself. I would strongly recommend that you
simply use the default Groups and Categories that ship with Project Server
and only tweak them as needed.

Also, in the future please tell us what version of Project Server you are
using. 2002, 2003, or 2007? Hope this helps.

 

[Juerg]

Hi Gagan, hi Dale

Thanks fou your posts, I'm going to read through the recommended documents
and I'm sure I'll come back.

Juerg

 

[Juerg]

Hello again

I read through a lot of posts and your recommended paper, but I'm still
looking for an answer how to set the roles. My problem is that a user has
different roles in every project. Once he's the project manager and once he's
just a team member.

If it's not the way building Groups for every project, do I have to build
categories for every project?

Juerg

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Juerg --

Like I told you in my last post, you are going down the wrong road by
assuming you have to create a custom Group and/or Category for every
project. You might want to read the following FAQ if you need to set
different permissions for a PM who is only a team member in another project:

http://www.projectserverexperts.com...edgeBase/Read-OnlyAccessForPMTeamMembers.aspx

Hope this helps.