Growing up, I was quite passionate about cycling - to a point that, in my mind, competing at the Tour de France was not out of sight. I remember cycling along the scenic Manila Bay one summer and a bunch of cyclists went by me - zoom! I tried to catch up but failed. It dawned on me that I can only go so fast with my average bicycle that didn't come with all the extra gears and lightweight material that the other cyclists had.
Fast forward to 2009, and I've gotten feedback from people having the same feeling of reaching the limits of SharePoint (WSS or MOSS) out-of-the-box when leveraged as a Project Management Information System (PMIS). I've gotten comments such as:
"How can I roll-up multiple project schedules into a portfolio view?"
"Is there a way to establish task dependencies?"
"I wish there was a better alerting mechanism."
Those days are long gone. Bamboo Solutions recently released
PM Central. It's a great add-on that takes project management with SharePoint to the next level. I had the opportunity to test drive it in a recent project I was working on.
Read more about my experience with PM Central at Bamboo Nation.