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date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:45:15 -0800,
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Re: Team Resources for 2007
Jerry --
In the future, please post your Project Server 2007 questions in the
microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is closing
down. Before I answer your question, let me commend you for this excellent
question. I spent last evening, this morning, and this afternoon
researching and writing about Self-Assignment of Team tasks, and because of
your questions, I dug deeper and found out even more about the process.
Here's what I have learned:
1. The Team tasks DO NOT show up on the My Tasks page of each resource
designated as part of the team. The team members must click the
"Self-assign Team Tasks" button to display the Team Tasks page. From there,
each team member can select the tasks that he/she will work on and then
click the "Assign task to me" button. This action moves the selected Team
tasks to the user's My Tasks page, so that he/she can report progress toward
the selected Team tasks.
2. In an Activity plan, each resource can self-assign Team tasks without
preventing their fellow team members from doing the same. However, when the
first team member enters and submits progress for a team task in an Activity
plan, the system removes that team task from the Team Tasks page of all
other team members who have not already self-assigned the team task. After
a resource self-assigns a team task from an enterprise project, however, the
system immediately removes the task from the Team Tasks page of all other
resources so that no one else can self-assign the task.
3. When a resource self-assigns a Team task from an enterprise project, the
system sends a Team Reassignment Request to the project manager, who must
approve the self-assignment. After approval, the system replaces the Team
resource with the self-assigned resource in the enterprise project. When
the team members submits a task update on a team task, and the PM approves
the update, the system shows the Actual Work hours for the self-assigned
resource in the enterprise project.
Hope this helps.
--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
http://www.projectserverexperts.com
"We wrote the book on Project Server"
"Jerry" wrote in message
news:D40EC416-4248-46EB-AC59-76151F9A47AD@microsoft.com...
> Hi all! I have a few questions regarding Team Resources for 2007 and would
> love some feedback.
>
> Lets assume I have a Team Resource (TR) with 3 real resources assigned to
> it.
> 1) If I assign a TR to a task, will the task show up on all of their My
> Tasks Page or do they have to "Self Assign" themselves?
>
> 2) If one of the real resources (Bob) puts time against the task, is it
> still available for the other resources from the same Team? Does it
> disappear from their My Tasks Page?
>
> 3) Once Bob puts time against it, it shows up in Proj Pro with his name
> assigned to it...correct?
>
> Thanks in advance!!!
>
> Jerry
>
date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 19:33:52 -0700
author: Dale Howard [MVP] dale(dot)howard(at)msprojectexperts(dot)com
Re: Team Resources for 2007
Wow! Thanks for the answer Dale...that was exactly what I needed.
Jerry
"Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:
> Jerry --
>
> In the future, please post your Project Server 2007 questions in the
> microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is closing
> down. Before I answer your question, let me commend you for this excellent
> question. I spent last evening, this morning, and this afternoon
> researching and writing about Self-Assignment of Team tasks, and because of
> your questions, I dug deeper and found out even more about the process.
> Here's what I have learned:
>
> 1. The Team tasks DO NOT show up on the My Tasks page of each resource
> designated as part of the team. The team members must click the
> "Self-assign Team Tasks" button to display the Team Tasks page. From there,
> each team member can select the tasks that he/she will work on and then
> click the "Assign task to me" button. This action moves the selected Team
> tasks to the user's My Tasks page, so that he/she can report progress toward
> the selected Team tasks.
>
> 2. In an Activity plan, each resource can self-assign Team tasks without
> preventing their fellow team members from doing the same. However, when the
> first team member enters and submits progress for a team task in an Activity
> plan, the system removes that team task from the Team Tasks page of all
> other team members who have not already self-assigned the team task. After
> a resource self-assigns a team task from an enterprise project, however, the
> system immediately removes the task from the Team Tasks page of all other
> resources so that no one else can self-assign the task.
>
> 3. When a resource self-assigns a Team task from an enterprise project, the
> system sends a Team Reassignment Request to the project manager, who must
> approve the self-assignment. After approval, the system replaces the Team
> resource with the self-assigned resource in the enterprise project. When
> the team members submits a task update on a team task, and the PM approves
> the update, the system shows the Actual Work hours for the self-assigned
> resource in the enterprise project.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> --
> Dale A. Howard [MVP]
> Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
> http://www.msprojectexperts.com
> http://www.projectserverexperts.com
> "We wrote the book on Project Server"
>
>
>
> "Jerry" wrote in message
> news:D40EC416-4248-46EB-AC59-76151F9A47AD@microsoft.com...
> > Hi all! I have a few questions regarding Team Resources for 2007 and would
> > love some feedback.
> >
> > Lets assume I have a Team Resource (TR) with 3 real resources assigned to
> > it.
> > 1) If I assign a TR to a task, will the task show up on all of their My
> > Tasks Page or do they have to "Self Assign" themselves?
> >
> > 2) If one of the real resources (Bob) puts time against the task, is it
> > still available for the other resources from the same Team? Does it
> > disappear from their My Tasks Page?
> >
> > 3) Once Bob puts time against it, it shows up in Proj Pro with his name
> > assigned to it...correct?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!!!
> >
> > Jerry
> >
>
>
>
>
date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 10:55:00 -0800
author: Jerry
Re: Team Resources for 2007
Jerry --
You are more than welcome for the thorough answer. It was a painful process
to learn how Team Resources actually work. I'm not sure they will prove as
useful as we hoped they would be! :)
--
Dale A. Howard [MVP]
Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
http://www.msprojectexperts.com
http://www.projectserverexperts.com
"We wrote the book on Project Server"
"Jerry" wrote in message
news:77BBD3BA-A26C-472B-B5D7-ECE5830035EE@microsoft.com...
> Wow! Thanks for the answer Dale...that was exactly what I needed.
>
> Jerry
>
>
> "Dale Howard [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Jerry --
>>
>> In the future, please post your Project Server 2007 questions in the
>> microsoft.public.project.server newsgroup, as this newsgroup is closing
>> down. Before I answer your question, let me commend you for this
>> excellent
>> question. I spent last evening, this morning, and this afternoon
>> researching and writing about Self-Assignment of Team tasks, and because
>> of
>> your questions, I dug deeper and found out even more about the process.
>> Here's what I have learned:
>>
>> 1. The Team tasks DO NOT show up on the My Tasks page of each resource
>> designated as part of the team. The team members must click the
>> "Self-assign Team Tasks" button to display the Team Tasks page. From
>> there,
>> each team member can select the tasks that he/she will work on and then
>> click the "Assign task to me" button. This action moves the selected
>> Team
>> tasks to the user's My Tasks page, so that he/she can report progress
>> toward
>> the selected Team tasks.
>>
>> 2. In an Activity plan, each resource can self-assign Team tasks without
>> preventing their fellow team members from doing the same. However, when
>> the
>> first team member enters and submits progress for a team task in an
>> Activity
>> plan, the system removes that team task from the Team Tasks page of all
>> other team members who have not already self-assigned the team task.
>> After
>> a resource self-assigns a team task from an enterprise project, however,
>> the
>> system immediately removes the task from the Team Tasks page of all other
>> resources so that no one else can self-assign the task.
>>
>> 3. When a resource self-assigns a Team task from an enterprise project,
>> the
>> system sends a Team Reassignment Request to the project manager, who must
>> approve the self-assignment. After approval, the system replaces the Team
>> resource with the self-assigned resource in the enterprise project. When
>> the team members submits a task update on a team task, and the PM
>> approves
>> the update, the system shows the Actual Work hours for the self-assigned
>> resource in the enterprise project.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> --
>> Dale A. Howard [MVP]
>> Enterprise Project Trainer/Consultant
>> http://www.msprojectexperts.com
>> http://www.projectserverexperts.com
>> "We wrote the book on Project Server"
>>
>>
>>
>> "Jerry" wrote in message
>> news:D40EC416-4248-46EB-AC59-76151F9A47AD@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi all! I have a few questions regarding Team Resources for 2007 and
>> > would
>> > love some feedback.
>> >
>> > Lets assume I have a Team Resource (TR) with 3 real resources assigned
>> > to
>> > it.
>> > 1) If I assign a TR to a task, will the task show up on all of their My
>> > Tasks Page or do they have to "Self Assign" themselves?
>> >
>> > 2) If one of the real resources (Bob) puts time against the task, is it
>> > still available for the other resources from the same Team? Does it
>> > disappear from their My Tasks Page?
>> >
>> > 3) Once Bob puts time against it, it shows up in Proj Pro with his name
>> > assigned to it...correct?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance!!!
>> >
>> > Jerry
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:12:09 -0700
author: Dale Howard [MVP] dale(dot)howard(at)msprojectexperts(dot)com
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