SharePoint 2013 sites can be outfitted with a “Site Mailbox”. This feature is available, out of the box, but must be enabled by an administrator before it can be used. A great way to use it, as Dux Raymond Sy, PMP, SharePoint MVP, and author of SharePoint 2010: Project Management, explains in a video tutorial available to any subscriber to SharePoint-Videos.com, titled Store, Sync and Share Skydrive and Site Mailbox, is in a project management context. The “Site Mailbox” feature of a project site can be used to keep all of the project team members up to date as a…
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Utilize SharePoint Server 2010 for SCRUM Project Management
In her series HackingIAP for MIT, Abby Fitchner “Microsoft’s startup evangelist and all-around rockstar” offers video training on the Agile software development methodology, and the SCRUM framework. As Abby notes, Agile software development leverages several features of lean manufacturing, most notably “eliminating anything at all that is wasteful.” The SCRUM framework is a lightweight team setting characterized, as Abby puts it, by “touchpoints and feedback loops” which have been included to ensure that team efforts keep on track. Eric Eaton’s set of video tutorials on managing projects with SharePoint Server 2010 for SharePoint-Videos includes two videos on the topic of…
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A Free to the Public Webinar on Project Management Using SharePoint Foundation 2010 is Now Available
A useful overview of utilizing SharePoint 2010 Foundation to manage a range of IT projects is now available for public viewing on SharePoint-Videos dot com as a webinar. This webinar, over an hour in length, is full of highly useful observations about how to manage projects with SharePoint 2010 Foundation. For viewers with SharePoint Foundation already in place, this webinar points out specific features of the product that can be easily (and quickly) used to start managing projects. Most mid to large size businesses require that a formal project management tool be utilized for IT projects. Where SharePoint Foundation 2010…
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