Thursday, January 1, 2009

MS sins with Project 2007 but makes up for it with Viso 2007

I was disappointed to see that MS Project 2007 has removed the Visio WBS toolbar (as far as I can tell), because I am in the habit of exporting my task structure into Visio, via that toolbar, to create a nice graphical WBS.  I have no idea why MS thinks that upgrades require the removal of reports and features, but there is a silver lining here.

Checkout the Project visualization with the Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007 WBS Modeler Add-in it lets you create an excellent WBS in Visio and send it out to project, becoming the basis of your new project plan file.  The tool is well developed and powerful, while being stable and simple to use.  It gets the Input/Output stamp of approval!

Happy 2009!