Managing Software Development With Microsoft ® Project 2000 And Team Folders Sam Brooks

Objectives Discuss MSF with Project 2000 Discuss MSF with Project 2000 Understand the structure of Team Folders Understand the structure of Team Folders Discuss Microsoft Project 2000 use Discuss Microsoft Project 2000 use Discuss Project Central Architecture Discuss Project Central Architecture

Agenda MSF MSF Outlook ® 2000 Team Folder Kit Outlook ® 2000 Team Folder Kit How Outlook 2000 Team Folders Work How Outlook 2000 Team Folders Work Outlook 2000 Team Folder Wizard Outlook 2000 Team Folder Wizard Invitation Form Invitation Form Project 2000/Project Central Architecture Project 2000/Project Central Architecture

Software Development Models Waterfall Waterfall Rapid Prototype Rapid Prototype Incremental Incremental Evolutionary Evolutionary

MSF  Course 163 Intro to MSF Gantt chart builder Gantt chart builder Milestones Milestones  Vision/Scope Approved  Project Plan Approved  Scope Complete  Release

Demo 1 Gantt Chart Builder Gantt Chart Builder

Installing Team Folders All team members must have: All team members must have:  Outlook 2000 running with Exchange Server Outlook 2000 Team Folder Kit Outlook 2000 Team Folder Kitwww.microsoft.com/exchange/collaboration/TFWizard.htm

Outlook 2000 Team Folder Kit Consists of 5 components Consists of 5 components  Invitation form and installation utility for organizational forms library  ActiveX Controls and utility files  Documentation  Outlook 2000 Team Folder Wizard  Standard templates for customization

Demo 2 Team Folders Kit Team Folders Kit

How Outlook 2000 Team Folders Work Web-based functionality Web-based functionality  Team folders reside in two locations  The Exchange Server  The Web Server Home page is a web page viewed in Outlook Home page is a web page viewed in Outlook Structured like the Windows Explorer directory Structured like the Windows Explorer directory

Outlook 2000 Team Folder Wizard Allows for Team Folder Administration Allows for Team Folder Administration  Selection of type of team folder to create  Name the team folder  Specify where the team folder will be located  Select a list of users Only the Team Folder Administrator needs the team folder wizard Only the Team Folder Administrator needs the team folder wizard

Invitation Form Allows the Team Folder Administrator to send messages to team members to visit the team folder Allows the Team Folder Administrator to send messages to team members to visit the team folder

Demo 3 Outlook 2000 Team Folder Wizard Outlook 2000 Team Folder Wizard

System Requirements Project 2000 Project 2000  Pentium 75 MHz or higher  Win95/98 24 MB RAM  W2000 or NT 4.0 or later with SP 4 Project Central Project Central  Pentium 200-MHz or higher  Windows 2000 Server or Windows NT Server version 4.0 with Service Pack 4 or later, and Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack (IIS) & SQL 7.0 w/ SP2  Minimum 128 MB of RAM  150 MB of available hard-disk

Working with Microsoft Project 2000 Database structure of Microsoft Project 2000 Database structure of Microsoft Project 2000 Using Team Folders with the Team Project template Using Team Folders with the Team Project template Collaborating with data from both sources Collaborating with data from both sources

Microsoft Project 2000: Three Tier Architecture IIS Microsoft Project 2000 Microsoft Project Central Microsoft Project Central Server Microsoft Project Central Database Microsoft Project Central Database MSDE, SQL, Oracle IIS User Interface Logic Data

Demo 4 Hosting Project Central in a Public Folder Hosting Project Central in a Public Folder

Conclusion MSF MSF Outlook 2000 Team Folder Kit Outlook 2000 Team Folder Kit How Outlook 2000 Team Folders Work How Outlook 2000 Team Folders Work Outlook 2000 Team Folder Wizard Outlook 2000 Team Folder Wizard Project 2000/Project Central Architecture Project 2000/Project Central Architecture

For Additional Information Software Engineering Project Management, Richard H. Thayer, ISBN: Software Engineering Project Management, Richard H. Thayer, ISBN: Microsoft Project Database Schema Microsoft Project Database Schema  Microsoft Office\office\1033\prjdb.htm Project Central Database Schema Project Central Database Schema  pjcntrl\help\1033\svrdb.htm