Hi Erik. Thanks for you response to the last question pertaining to this
reply. I am new to using microsoft office enterprise. I have been given a
project in one of our building to come up with data that would support
relamping of the building with a certain type of light bulb that is suppose
to be more efficient. Do MS Enterprise have a project management program in
it that would help me set something up to present? I am new to this, and in
my 3rd semester of school.

"Erik Sojka" wrote:

> As with all things techincal, the answer is "it depends". Can you clarify
> what you have in mind?
>
> OneNote can certainly play a part in a project's lifecycle, if you limit
> OneNote to what it does best: capture freeform notes and information from
> meetings, etc.
>
> Do you need document library and collaboration features? The SharePoint
> offerings are your best bet.
>
> Do you need publication/editing tools to take specifications and put them in
> a standard format (i.e. UML) or for other public consumption? Word, Visio,
> etc. are the best choices for that.
>
> Do you need a true project management tool to track tasks and resources,
> with links to documents? MS Project is the best bet (especially the 2003
> Project Web Server).
>
> In a small environment, OneNote integrated with SharePoint might be useful
> enough. OneNote isn't meant to product finished/polished documents. OneNote
> doesn't (yet) have the hooks into other products that its older more mature
> siblings in the Office family have.
>
> I use OneNote to track notes and meetings and status of projects I manage.
> But I also use the more appropriate tools for documenting, publishing and
> managing projects.
>
> "dennish" wrote:
>
> > Has anyone used OneNote as a project management tool? Specifically has
> > anyone used a combination of SharePoint and OneNote to help manage, define
> > functional spec, etc. any of the software development lifecycle (MSF)?
> >

rodney wrote:
> Hi Erik. Thanks for you response to the last question pertaining to
> this reply. I am new to using microsoft office enterprise. I have
> been given a project in one of our building to come up with data that
> would support relamping of the building with a certain type of light
> bulb that is suppose to be more efficient. Do MS Enterprise have a
> project management program in it that would help me set something up
> to present? I am new to this, and in my 3rd semester of school.

MS Visio and MS Project would be the proper instruments.
They are not part of Office Enterprise, however.

You might try your best with Excel and Word.
Perhaps a database might be a better solution. So have a look at Access.

Rainald


> "Erik Sojka" wrote:
>
>> As with all things techincal, the answer is "it depends". Can you
>> clarify what you have in mind?
>>
>> OneNote can certainly play a part in a project's lifecycle, if you
>> limit OneNote to what it does best: capture freeform notes and
>> information from meetings, etc.
>>
>> Do you need document library and collaboration features? The
>> SharePoint offerings are your best bet.
>>
>> Do you need publication/editing tools to take specifications and put
>> them in a standard format (i.e. UML) or for other public
>> consumption? Word, Visio, etc. are the best choices for that.
>>
>> Do you need a true project management tool to track tasks and
>> resources, with links to documents? MS Project is the best bet
>> (especially the 2003 Project Web Server).
>>
>> In a small environment, OneNote integrated with SharePoint might be
>> useful enough. OneNote isn't meant to product finished/polished
>> documents. OneNote doesn't (yet) have the hooks into other products
>> that its older more mature siblings in the Office family have.
>>
>> I use OneNote to track notes and meetings and status of projects I
>> manage. But I also use the more appropriate tools for documenting,
>> publishing and managing projects.
>>
>> "dennish" wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone used OneNote as a project management tool? Specifically
>>> has anyone used a combination of SharePoint and OneNote to help
>>> manage, define functional spec, etc. any of the software
>>> development lifecycle (MSF)?