Sunday, March 7, 2010

MOPS - Life Cycle

1. Project Manager saves Project plan in MOPS. It is always saved to draft db and not visible in project center and assignments are also not visible

2. After publish -> project data is written to Published and Reporting databases.
If notification service is enabled each resource(Team Members) is sent an email.

3. Team members can update their tasks and submit timesheets(if enabled). These updates are not visible until manager approves them.

4. manager accepts or rejects updates from team members.

**Rules can be set to process updates. These rules cannot be run automatically.

5. After reviewing changes the latest scheduling changes are saved to draft.

6.manager publishes changes.

7. Using Project Center, executives can view all/individual projects in portfolio.
Report analysis can also be done.

NATIVE PROJECT SERVER FEATURES:
1. Status Reports
2. Automated alerts and reminders
3. Outlook Integration
4. Task delegation
5. Ad hoc reporting
6. Issues log
7. Risks log
8. Documents
9. Proposals
10. Resource plans
11. Activity plans
12. Time sheets
13. Deliverables


DATA ANALYSIS
MOPS 2007 provides 14 cubes OOTB.
Control over specific fields to be introduced as a part of a dimension in a OLAP cube. It also includes task data in cubes.

no default data analysis views ship with the product.

OLAP:
multidimensional view of a project, task and resource data. The relational database structure is 2D. OLAP consists of,
a. preprocessed 3D data
b. typically time-phased and
c. aggregated by business dimension.

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