On Planning for Project Planning
“Project Management” is the planning, budgeting, and allocating of resources, projecting a timeline, and so forth.
This Week in Bamboo (May 6th, 2012 – May 12th, 2012)
Patch for Workflow Conductor SharePoint 2010 Release 2.5 was released to the storefront this week along with User Directory Web Part Release 1.7 and Group Email Web Part Release 1.7. Please check out the latest releases of this week and see below for more...
Assessing One’s Own Project Management Skills
Learning to be effective at managing projects requires comfort with the underlying premises and theories of project management.
This Week in Bamboo (April 29th, 2012 – May 5th, 2012)
At Bamboo this week, we released the following patches: Alert Plus, List Rollup Web Part, Wiki Publisher, and Lookup Selector Column. We added some new features on latest releases of Alert Plus for SharePoint 2007 version and Wiki Publisher for both SharePoint...
Real-World Collaboration in Action with SharePoint Online & Office Web Apps! (I Love It When a Plan Comes Together)
Pre-SharePoint, version control would have been tricky. This Office 365 SharePoint offering puts everything on the cloud.
Using SharePoint to Communicate Organizational Structure Effectively
The humble “org chart” might feel like an outmoded concept, but it can serve an essential purpose for many companies.
Customizing a Community Central Site by Changing the Default Logos
Out-of-the-box, Community Central comes with Bamboo logos in place as the header and footer. Since we recognize that our logo may not be a part of the desired look and feel of your company’s community site, you may replace that...This Week in Bamboo (April 22nd, 2012 – April 28th, 2012)
This week in Bamboo, we released to our storefront some minors and patches releases. The highlight of minor releases with some new features and bugs fixed is Team Calendar R1.7 for SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010, Cross-Site Display Web Part R1.2 for SharePoint...
The Outlook is Bright: Using Alerts with SharePoint Discussion Boards
The Alert Me feature works for discussion lists and other lists, calendars, document changes, etc. It’s highly configurable.
Just the Right Amount of Information Helps the Medicine Go Down
Providing users with just the right amount of information, and not overloading them with anything extraneous, is often for the best. With Cross-Site Display Web Part, users can display Lists and Libraries, not only across sites, but even Site Collections, providing...Access Exchange Online 2010 Mailboxes with Your On-premises Deployment via Team Calendar Web Part
Bamboo has just released Team Calendar Web Part version 1.7, and one of the exciting new features is Exchange 2010 Online support for your on-premises deployment of SharePoint. Upon successfully installing (or upgrading, if you are already an owner of Team Calendar...SHARE 2012: Christian Buckley Identifies ‘The Connection Between Metadata, Social Tools, and Personal Productivity’
This morning at SHARE, Christian Buckley began his session on The Connection Between Metadata, Social Tools, and Personal Productivity by mentioning that the presentation was the direct result of conversations he’s had with members of the SharePoint community. ...SHARE 2012: Richard Harbridge Details ‘The Steps to Effective SharePoint Governance’
Richard Harbridge began his SHARE session this afternoon by stating that there is no single, 100% guaranteed way to implement SharePoint governance, and that the bottom line is that it comes down to “it depends” in terms of what’s best for a given...SHARE 2012 Keynote Case Study – RedCentral: Automating Coke Consolidated’s Salesforce
This morning's second keynote at SHARE was RedCentral: Automating Coke Consolidated's Salesforce, a case study co-presented by Jody Billiard, VP, Operations Finance & Chief Accounting Officer, and Shawn Olsen, Senior Business Systems and CMS Manager, both...This Week in Bamboo (April 15th, 2012 – April 21st, 2012)
Workflow Conductor R2.5 was released to Bamboo storefront this week for SharePoint 2010 with some great new features and many resolved bugs. Please see the release announcement blog of Workflow Conductor R2.5 from our Product Manager for more...SHARE 2012 Keynote: Microsoft’s Gideon Bibliowicz on ‘Productivity Delivered’
Following his own Opening Address, Transform Your Enterprise with SharePoint, Dux Raymond Sy introduced the first of two Keynote Presentations this morning at SHARE. Delivering the first keynote, Productivity Delivered, was Microsoft Senior Product Manager for...Using SharePoint for Project Collaboration
All right, so these last few entries have been a no-doubt scintillating exploration of what project management is, what tools you can use to facilitate project management, and why you should use those tools. But all the talk in the world isn’t going to actually...Announcing Workflow Conductor 2.5 for SharePoint 2010
Can you really have “too much of a good thing”? Here at Bamboo, we don’t think so (if you don’t believe me, just look at how many great products we offer). That’s why we keep on adding new features to Workflow...SHARE 2012: Dux Raymond Sy on ‘Delivering Enterprise SharePoint Success at SHARE’
Dux Raymond Sy’s “jumpstart workshop,” Delivering Enterprise SharePoint Success at SHARE, served as the opening ceremonies for SHARE 2012 this afternoon. The session began with a video consisting of various SharePoint notables answering the...Greetings from Atlanta and SHARE 2012!
As the platinum sponsor of SHARE 2012, the Bamboo contingent has arrived at the Marriott Marquis in sunny Atlanta with five of us present and at the service of the hundreds of SharePoint business users assembled for the conference. We’re looking forward to...Comparing Search Features Between Out-of-the-box SharePoint and Community Central for SharePoint 2010
Released last fall in conjunction with the Microsoft SharePoint Conference, Community Central is Bamboo’s latest release in the application space. Among Community Central’s strongest features is its range of search options. With out-of-the-box SharePoint...
Looking Forward to Discussing Knowledge Management with SharePoint at SHARE Next Week
I will provide insight into how we share knowledge internally at Bamboo and also share with you how some of our customers use our tools.
Printing Existing SharePoint Lists with Bamboo List Print
SharePoint allows users to store and organize a wide variety of information within SharePoint lists. Unfortunately, we can only print a SharePoint list via the browser, or introducing additional steps such as copying the entire page to Microsoft...
Using Microsoft Project as a Dynamic Tool
Project allows PMs to share proof of project success with executives, to justify their processes, and project management techniques.
Managing Permissions in Discussion Board Plus
Discussion Board Plus for SharePoint 2010 enhances the out-of-the-box SharePoint Discussion Board adding features such as Lock Topic, Mark as Sticky, Verify Answer, Suggest as Answer, etc. Additional details are available in the product...How to Manage the Scoring Rules for Forum & Blog Sites in Community Central via User Activity & Site Members
Community Central for SharePoint 2010 provides a site template which is integrated with many functions which differ from, and enhance, the available features in SharePoint 2010 out-of-the-box. Some of these additional features include:...
Announcing the Latest Release of Data-Viewer Web Part with New Features Including Web Part Connection
The Bamboo Data-Viewer Web Part allows you to connect to and display list, SQL table/view, List Rollup, or other external data within a Web Part without having to use SharePoint Designer. You can customize the look and feel, allow users to group, filter,...Building a Schedule for SHARE: The SharePoint Conference for Business Users, Part 2
The third day of SHARE, Wednesday, April 25, will officially begin with Bamboo’s breakfast and coffee talk, From Simple Search to Knowledge Management: Getting the Answers You Need from SharePoint. Julie Auletta, Director of Bamboo’s Solutions...This Week in Bamboo (April 1st, 2012 – April 7th, 2012)
At Bamboo this week, we resolved some bugs and released patches for the following products to the storefront: In/Out Schedule Board, List Rotator Web Part, Bamboo Visual Indicator and List Print. More details about the patches can be found below. SA06 In/Out...Building a Schedule for SHARE: The SharePoint Conference for Business Users, Part 1
SHARE: The SharePoint Conference for Business Users is just under two weeks away, so I’m thinking that now is probably a good time to start building my schedule for the event. To help make the planning process easier, conference organizers have...
Dependencies, Microsoft Project, and Baking Cakes
A project manager will find Project more than helpful. Dependencies are where your resources, schedule, & plans are all linked together.
Want to Get 25% Off Your Registration for the Next SharePoint Best Practices Conference?
Tentatively scheduled for May of 2013 in Minneapolis, the early stages of planning for the next SharePoint Best Practices Conference have already begun. As part of the planning process, conference organizers have created a short survey around what makes a...Just One Week Remains to Enter to Win a Free Pass to the SHARE Conference
Update: The contest has now ended and our winner has been notified, but Dux Raymond Sy’s white paper, Proven Practices for SharePoint Requirements Development is still available as a free download. In partnership with SHARE: The...
Staring Down the Microsoft Project Boogeyman
A central theme in this blog is going to be not just the core concepts of project management but also tackling Microsoft Project.
This Week in Bamboo (March 18th, 2012 – March 24th, 2012)
This week in Bamboo, File Share Library Release 2.0, Video Library Release 2.0 and Knowledge Base Solution Accelerator Release 2.2 for SharePoint 2010 were released to the storefront with new improvements, new features and some resolved bugs. For details about the...
Tools of the Project Manager’s Trade & the Relationship between Microsoft Project and SharePoint
Now that we’ve defined what project management is, I have at my disposal three different tools to enact project management.
How to Publish Live Meeting Recordings to SharePoint
Here at Bamboo Solutions, we have staff all around the world (Reston, VA, USA; Amsterdam; Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; and several points in between). To help keep the communication lines open, a couple of years back, we established VOIP company-wide using Microsoft...Greetings from the AIIM Conference 2012
Editor’s note: Julie’s AIIM post was initially published last week during the conference, but was accidentally “unpublished” shortly thereafter. Julie is not actually unstuck in time. Hello from San Francisco and the AIIM Conference 2012! We...Announcing Video Library 2.0 – Utilize Your Existing File System with File Share Library Integration
Instructional videos, promotional videos, audio recordings of meetings, podcasts… these are just a sampling of the types of media users want to share through their corporate portal on SharePoint. Which is fantastic, because that’s what...Product Release Announcement: File Share Library 2.0, Now Featuring Improved Synchronization
Storage planning for SharePoint deployments can be very tricky. It can be difficult to take into account the fact that all data, including the physical files, are stored inside the content database instead of in a defined file system. This...This Week in Bamboo (March 11th, 2012 – March 17th, 2012)
If you’ve already checked out the latest version of Project Management Central for SharePoint 2010 (released a couple of weeks ago), now it’s the latest version for SharePoint 2007’s turn. A minor release of Project Management...Download Dux Raymond Sy’s New White Paper ‘Proven Practices for SharePoint Requirements Development’ & Be Entered to Win a Pass to the SHARE Conference
Update: The contest has now ended and our winner has been notified, but Dux Raymond Sy's white paper, Proven Practices for SharePoint Requirements Development is still available as a free download. As a co-presentation with Innovative-e, Bamboo is proud to...Knowledge Base Solution Accelerator: New SharePoint 2010 Release Offers Improved Performance and Usability
Centralized. Expert verified. Supervisor approved. Format standardized. Turn-key solution. These are just a few of the terms that describe Bamboo’s knowledge management solution, Knowledge Base Solution Accelerator (KBSA). KBSA provides end users with published,...
What is Project Management?
Project management is the deliberate and concrete steps to turn a less-than-ideal situation into something more practical.
Bamboo Solutions Extends the Capabilities of Microsoft Project with Best-Selling Project Management Application for Microsoft SharePoint
PM Central has consistently enhanced the rich native collaborative capabilities of the Microsoft SharePoint platform.
