Sanjeev Garg's Blog

Some of you might say, neither. So let us just assume I am in a situation where I am required to use some unit of time to measure my estimates in. Then which is the best unit to pick. Should we estimate in Days or in Hours? In a lot of teams, I have noticed that people use hours to estimate work. And then I have also seen they come up with a multiplier which reflects productive hours in a day. This can vary from 3 hours to 6 hours per day based on a team’s situation. But then I notice an interesting thing. If you closely look at the estimates, you’ll see a pattern which can easily tell you the multiplier used by the team. If the team thought 4 hours per day was the productive time their members have, you’ll typically see the estimates in multiples of 4. If they used 6 hours as productive hours multiplier, most of the estimates are in multiples of 6. So that means, we originally think in terms of days, and then convert them to hours based on whatever multiplier we use. The the quest...

I had to search various forums before I could find a solution, so I decided I'll write it up for the benefit of all. Problem: When you exit Microsoft Visio 2007, you get the following error: "Microsoft Visio has stopped working; A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available" Reason: This problem happens due to the failure of "Send to Bluetooth" add-in in Microsoft Visio 2007 in Windows Vista systems. Solution: We need to disable the "Send to Bluetooth" add-in. But when you try to disable the add-in in Tools >> Trust Center >> Add-ins, you get the following error. "The connected state of Office Add-Ins registered in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE cannot be changed". The trick is to start Visio as an administrator. The steps are: Go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12. In this folder, right click Visio.exe...

Problem: If you build a Report Center site in MOSS 2007, you'll notice that "Personalize this Page" option is missing from the Welcome <User Name> drop drop down on the top right of the page. This option is visible on most of the other pages in the team site.  Solution: Open the dashboard page you want to enable this option in notepad. For each web part zone in the dashboard page, update AllowPersonalization=”True” . It is set to False by default. If you want to only allow personalization of certain zones, then only change these for those zones.