I have a planned baselined however we all know things don’t go to plan. I meet with the team weekly to get percentage complete and also new target completion dates for tasks not on target. I am updating the finish date but not sure if this is correct. I have read some articles about needed to set the status date and then update. Just want to get…[Read more]

1. When building project schedule and setting dependencies (FS, SF, etc) do you base that on the resources you have available or are the dependencies strictly related to activities and resources should not be considered?

Any good recommendations on a complete workbook of Excel sheets for Project Management? An excel workbook which contains all the sheets for project details, risks, tasks, budget, expense reporting, wbs, etc.

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Tips on how to get a team to help discover the tasks that need to be accomplished. I have a team of developers and we need to create an assessment but they are really not sure what tasks need to be performed to complete the assessment. We have the objectives which the assessment should deliver so I am not sure if it is an issue of not having the…[Read more]

How do you typically enter a multiday event in project? Say you have an IT dev team review that will likely take multiple reviews to accomplish a goal. Do I enter as one tasks with a duration of say 10 days? However, I don’t want it to appear as if it will consume full days since these are likely 1 to 2hrs sessions which may only happen 2 or 3…[Read more]