Project Manager for a Week

[Frank J.]

Project 2007 w/SP1

I am the project managers at my company and all updates to projects via PWA
are routed to me (as I am specified as the Status Manager).

I will be going on vacation this month and not sure how to handle.

I guess I can forward my email to someone else and give them administrator
rights as an option... but than they would get all my mail (not just items
from PWA).

We have over 100 active projects anf I really do not want to go into each
plan and change the status manager.

Any suggestions.

Frankj

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Frank:

Your company should reconsider having one status manager for 100+
projects.<g> With that said, you must have the people/person who will be
responsible for updating the projects, open them and set the status manager
for at least the current and near future tasks to themselves and publish the
plan to be able to action the updates.

If you want to have this happen only as updates come in, then you might
consider creating an Outlook rule to forward email only from Project Server.
I don't think you would want to send all of your email to anyone!

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Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
MSProjectExperts
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[wasonamit]

Correct me if I am wrong.

But Gary if the emails are forward to his replacement. He will only know
that resources have submitted time. But he won't be able to go to PWA > Task
Updates with his login and Approve the Task Updates.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Frank: Ultimately, he has to go to PWA, open the project, and set himself as
status manager and publish the project to then be able to accept the
updates. Wouldn't you rather have him take over only the ones that are
necessary, rather that all of them up front? That's all I was thinking.

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Gary L. Chefetz, MVP
MSProjectExperts
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