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June 08, 2005
Project Examples Intermission
Previously I noted that examples are useless because projects and project teams are unique. This is only half true. There are things which can be learned/plagarized from existing projects. To this end Microsoft kindly provides a number of built-in templates for a number of different types of projects. Project 2002 offers the following list and I believe 2003 expands on this list.
Commercial Construction template
Engineering template
Home Move template
Infrastructure Deployment template
Microsoft Active Directory Deployment template
Microsoft Exchange 2000 Deployment template
Microsoft Office XP Corporate Deployment
Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server Deployment
Microsoft Windows XP Deployment template
MSF Application Development template
New Business template
New Product template
Office Move template
Project Office template
Residential Construction template
Software Development template
Software Localization template
A brief look at the templates for the work I'm familiar with shows them to be rather basic and they are certainly missing some things I consider important, however for general format, for how resources should be assigned, and for how tasks can be linked they are decent examples to copy or start from.
You can find the templates by going to the "file" menu, choosing "new" and then selecting the new from template option which you prefer. You can also find the templates on the web at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/CT011359421033.aspx.
I'd say they are definitely worth checking out if you are just learning project and want to see what your project schedule should end up looking like. I'd also check out the deployment templates as those are something that Microsoft does have some expertise in.
Posted by Jack at June 8, 2005 06:14 PM
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