Microsoft® Office Project 2007 Inside Out

Collaborating with Your Project Team

After you set up your enterprise project team, you have powerful methods of project collaboration and communication at your fingertips. Using Project Professional and Project Web Access, you can assign tasks to resources, receive progress updates, and request narrative status reports—all electronically via publication of information to your project server.

This collaboration process automates the gathering and entry of actuals so that you don’t have to enter actuals on assignments yourself. Your project server administrator or portfolio manager sets up your resources’ task progress pages in Project Web Access so that they can enter and submit their actuals on a periodic basis. You can then review these actuals ...