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I just received word that the SharePoint team has announced a new program called SharePoint Deployment Planning Services today. I quickly jumped over to that post on blogs.msdn.com to learn more about this new and exciting service:
If you’re involved with SharePoint in some way, either as a customer or partner, I think that you’ll be excited to learn about a new program we’re announcing today called SharePoint Deployment Planning Services (SDPS). SDPS is a partner and Microsoft Consulting Services delivered offering designed to help our Software Assurance (SA) customers successfully plan and deploy SharePoint. Using field proven business and technical guidance, the program provides best practices and well defined results through 1, 3, 5, 10 or 15 day deployment planning sessions. The number of Packaged Service days that a customer can receive is determined by a combination of the number of qualifying Office licenses and the number of Core CAL (Client Access License) Suites and Enterprise CAL Suites. So, no additional investment is needed by the customer to take advantage of this tremendous program.
You can jump to the full post here > Microsoft SharePoint Proucts and Technologies Team Blog : Announcing SharePoint Deployment Planning Services SDPS
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Springhouse Education & Consulting Services today announced that Peggy A. Stelle, Vice President of Professional Development, was recognized as a finalist for the Delaware Valley HR Person of the Year Award in the 1 to 500 employee category. The award is given annually by the HR Association of Southern New Jersey, Chester County Human Resource Association, Delaware SHRM, Greater Valley Forge HR Association, Philadelphia Regional SHRM, and Tri-State HR Management Association chapters of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
“Walking the talk” is primary to Peggy’s personal and professional outlook. Having originally supported Springhouse as an outside consultant, Peggy now continues to foster relationships and lead the internal growth of the team as Vice President of Professional Development.
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Many new users to MS Project, or any other project management tool for that matter, do not set baselines for their project files. Without a baseline, however, a you can never really accurately gauge performance on the project. For instance, you won’t see variances or earned value data.
A baseline is what I call an original snapshot of your project. When you set a baseline (MS Project 2007 calls it ‘Set baseline’; all previous versions refer to it as ‘Save baseline’), you are essentially saving Start, Finish, Duration, Work, and Cost data for the entire project, each subproject, and each subtask.
Although you may have multiple baselines for each project (up to 11 baselines in MS Project), nearly all of my clients and students only have a need for one. I usually recommend only using one anyway since there is no quick way to extract those other baselines without additional configuration. Anyway, I’ll save that topic for another day.
In the meantime, here are some general best practices for setting baselines:
- Set your baseline when you are ready to begin the project. That means when it has been approved, the day before, the morning of, etc…
- Only clear baselines when you don’t want to see baseline data in your tables and views. Otherwise, simply set the baseline again and MS Project will overwrite the previous baseline.
- If you have new tasks during the project, you can save a baseline on only those tasks so you don’t have to save the baseline for the entire project.
- Interim plans are similar to baselines but MS Project only saves Start and Finish data.
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