Author: Angelo Arcoleo
Angelo Arcoleo, PMP, brings over 30 years of experience in engineering, project management, planning and training.
He leads projects and teams to plan and execute critical projects utilizing his experience, quiet-leadership, passion and versatility to work with anyone.
He is a professionally trained civil engineer and has a bachelor of science degree from Rochester Institute of Technology. Angelo is a Master Scheduler for Harris Corp., formerly Exelis, in the Geospatial Systems Division. He holds an Orange Belt in Microsoft Office Project and is President of the Western New York Chapter of MPUG and a training consultant.
Where’s My Group Field Name?
Recently I was building an old standard view in a new project. The view spec displayed the grouped custom field name in the group bar. When I grouped by Work Area (Fig. 1), the field name disappeared ...
The 0.38 day Mystery Solved!
Ever wonder where that pesky 0.38 days comes from that you find when comparing dates that look to be the same? In a recent inquiry, a reader wanted to know, “Why does a ‘one working day...
Inactive Tasks and the Five-minute Fix
While building a schedule, I came up with a technique I want to share. First, the background. Using a populated template to build a schedule for a new project (or working in an existing project), we p...
There’s No Place Like Home: How to Create a Home View Macro
Have you ever opened one or more Microsoft project files and had a blank screen due to a null-filter or a view that was unfamiliar or out of sorts? What happened to your project?! Why are tasks out of...
Webinar: “Taming the Monster Schedule” – Working with Consolidated Schedules…
Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1.5 PMI® PDU in the Technical Category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: When D...
Smart Numbering Master Schedule Tasks
In a Consolidated Schedule, volatile IDs will show repeated numbers representing a task’s ID in a subproject. This creates confusion and it is difficult to search a task by ID. Therefore, when using...
Ask the Experts: Counting Task Occurrences with Microsoft Project
Angelo of Rochester, NY: When managing project schedules I need to produce a count of various tasks. For example, how many late tasks are in a schedule, how many critical tasks, how many milestones, e...
Mail: Another Perspective on Defining “Critical”
In response to Mike Glen’s article, “Ask the Experts: Define Critical,” published in the October 1, 2008 issue of the newsletter, the question is similar to ones that we have dealt w...