Managing Software
Development With
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Microsoft Project 2000
And Team Folders
Sam Brooks
www.sambrooks.com
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Objectives
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Discuss MSF with Project 2000
Understand the structure of
Team Folders
Discuss Microsoft Project 2000 use
Discuss Project Central Architecture
Agenda
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MSF
Outlook® 2000 Team Folder Kit
How Outlook 2000 Team Folders Work
Outlook 2000 Team Folder Wizard
Invitation Form
Project 2000/Project Central
Architecture
Software Development Models
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Waterfall
Rapid Prototype
Incremental
Evolutionary
MSF
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www.microsoft.com/msf
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Course 163 Intro to MSF
Gantt chart builder
Milestones
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Vision/Scope Approved
Project Plan Approved
Scope Complete
Release
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/techart/msdn_gantt.htm
Demo 1
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Gantt Chart Builder
Installing Team Folders
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All team members must have:
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Outlook 2000 running with
Exchange Server
Outlook 2000 Team Folder Kit
www.microsoft.com/exchange/collaboration/TFWizard.htm
Outlook 2000 Team
Folder Kit
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Consists of 5 components
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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
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Team Folders Kit
How Outlook 2000 Team
Folders Work
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Web-based functionality
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Team folders reside in two locations
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The Exchange Server
The Web Server
Home page is a web page viewed
in Outlook
Structured like the Windows Explorer
directory
Outlook 2000 Team Folder
Wizard
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Allows for Team Folder Administration
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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
Invitation Form
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Allows the Team Folder Administrator
to send messages to team members
to visit the team folder
Demo 3
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Outlook 2000 Team Folder Wizard
System Requirements
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Project 2000
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Pentium 75 MHz or higher
Win95/98 24 MB RAM
W2000 or NT 4.0 or later with SP 4
Project Central
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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
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Database structure of
Microsoft Project 2000
Using Team Folders with the
Team Project template
Collaborating with data from
both sources
Microsoft Project 2000:
Three Tier Architecture
User
Interface
Microsoft
Project Central
Microsoft
Project 2000
Microsoft Project Central Server
Logic
IIS
IIS
Data
Microsoft Project Central Database
MSDE, SQL, Oracle
Demo 4
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Hosting Project Central in
a Public Folder
Conclusion
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MSF
Outlook 2000 Team Folder Kit
How Outlook 2000 Team Folders Work
Outlook 2000 Team Folder Wizard
Project 2000/Project Central
Architecture
For Additional Information
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Software Engineering Project
Management, Richard H. Thayer,
ISBN: 0818680008
Microsoft Project Database Schema
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Microsoft Office\office\1033\prjdb.htm
Project Central Database Schema
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pjcntrl\help\1033\svrdb.htm