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In this MPP era, how many of you still use AOA and AON techniques to find your Project Management problems' solutions? Honestly speaking, I have stopped using AOA and AON techniques after start using Microsoft Project. Microsoft Project is quite fast to get solution but, somehow I really miss using AOA and AON. Today while surfing I found out this really great article about "A New Approach for Constructing and Generating AOA Networks" on The Scientific Journals. It's really worth to read.


http://www.scientificjournals.org/journals2007/articles/1049.htm

 

The Project charter is the document that officially starts the project. The charter is one of the most important documents on a project. It is essential for creating the project. The project can’t be official without Project Charter. Absence of Project Charter may create huge difficulties to Project Manager (My personal experience).

Below are seven easy steps to create project charter document.

• To create a Project Charter, you must be quite clear about the project and its objectives. Begin the document by explaining the project objectives and effect of that project on organization. The charter basically reflect the usefulness of the project for company and its customers. And the main thing, you must to be convinced by it’s statement of purpose.
• Make list of all the stakeholders and all the persons going to involve in the project. Define their roles and responsibilities. Organization chart can work pretty good here.
• Developing Project Charter is a group activity. A single person cannot create project charter by alone. Before work on the project can commence, the project charter must be supported by the person in charge or a sponsor. The supervising person signs the project charter document to indicate approval.
• Define the context and scope of the project, specifying who or what the project will affect. Include the expectations and limitations to the project and people affected by it.
• Measurement is very important in any project. Project Charter document must have the measurable goals documented.
• Risk analysis and plan are also quite important in project execution and planning. The Project Charter document should include contingency plans for possible risks. 
• Resource plan also need to be included in Project Charter document. Include a list of financial, material and staffing resources in project charter.

 

I was finding some JQuery plug-ins for image rotation. And I found few excellent stuff. Check below links…

http://designm.ag/tutorials/image-rotator-css-jquery/

http://www.chazzuka.com/blog/?p=101

JQuery simply rocks… It’s my latest love…

 

Finally, I got success in implementing Microsoft Project Server 2007 in my organization. And at first impression, it seems really cool tool for project management. And I hope this first impression stay last long. The deployment of the Project Server was little bit hectic. That might be due to not having enough experience implementing and installing that. Below are the features, which I really like into Project Server 2007.

• Excellent Project Web Application.
• Sync. with Microsoft Project Planner. (It’s really cool)
• Sync. of tasks and time sheet with Microsoft Outlook. (It’s really helpful, tried in pilot run. Quite impressed).
• Share Point - document management. And documents’ sync. with Microsoft Outlook.
• Resource Center.
• Sync. with Active Directory.

Isn’t it seems cool?? Find below articles for Project Server 2007 implementation guides.

“Deployment for Office Project Server 2007”— http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/0c43062d-30e3-49b1-9705-ed447ad1d2561033.mspx

“Deployment for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 technology”—http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/1f505e96-60e2-41ac-bf5d-9739105f047c1033.mspx

I got a new Visual Studio theme from here… It’s cool… Check it out new look of my Visual Studio…

My friend sent me this cool link… It describe the way to encrypt the Stored Procedure on SQL Server… Find the article of how to encrypt the Stored Procedure at….

http://www.sqlservercurry.com/2008/02/how-to-encrypt-stored-procedure-in-sql.html

Enjoy….

On 16th of Feb 2009, I lost my father. It was a huge loss of my life. He was a great man and fighter. He fought great against cancer. But destiny was defined. Cancer did it’s job. It was very tough to see our dear one dying and you were standing there helplessly.

I was checking his pulse on his forearm, and I felt his last pulse. I held his arm for few more minutes with tears in my heart with hope that I will catch his pulse again. But the pulse never came again… Instantly I became small child by heart. I wanted to cry like child, but I couldn’t. If I got to cry, who will give emotional support to my mother, younger brother and my wife. I had to put huge rock on my heart and control my emotions for sake of my family.

Suddenly my whole life changed. If you know about Indian families, father is always a key person in family. He possess the chief of the family status for his entire life span, specially in joint families. Children are always in father’s influence. Father is like roof of the house. And I lost my roof. As an elder son of the family it was my responsibility to become new ruff of my family. It is a great responsibility. But I now I will do that, my father is always with me. Even if he is not physically present, I can feel his present inside my heart. I know he is always with me. He is looking after my every failure and success.

I Love you Dad… You are always my source of inspiration…