It would be valuable to allow the system to surface additional information directly on the home page for the user's favorite projects. For example, image the favorite tile as a baseball card. Clicking on the project would allow the card to flip and show statistics. (Last Published, Top Risk, Top Issue, % Complete, Actual Hours Worked Etc. This allows the PM to see management level detail directly on the home page. Using these KPIs - the user could then navigate directly to the specific page. For example, if the Top Risk was of concern - the PM could click on the Risk Title and jump straight to the Risk Register on the Project Site.

Ideally - this information could be configurable so that the PM can select the items he/she might wish to show.

The new Project Home concept looks a good start (from Brian Smith's recent post) but there are a few things that could do with some refinement for those customers with multiple Project Web App sites as some of our customers do.

The list of recent projects could with some metadata to describe the container site of the project (maybe the EPT would suffice here but no reason why this couldn't be the site description)

the New Project directing to the /PWA site is gong to be awkward when /PWA is used simply as a landing page (which has been our strategy to date) where security trimmed links to the various corporate PWA Sites are held. Again it would be good to be able to address the EPT in the list so that this can be (potentially) used to describe the site, but a list of options by site (where permissions apply) would again be better still.

A link to the associated project site rather than simply the EPT would be useful too from a PM perspective.

Many organisations already have a sort of landing page or home page for Project Online, where the default site collection (typically PWA) acts as a storefront for going to different PWAs for different departments for example. This landing page typically includes links to training materials, process guides and support contacts, as well as tiles/promoted links for other PWAs.

The new Project Home landing page should be customisable, to allow organisations to add standard content for the end user. This helps user adoption, especially for non-project managers who may typically head straight for a specific Project Center that they have saved a link to in their browser.