Best Practice
Quick Tip To Improve Estimates
Could your team members improve their estimates? My own estimates are consistently too low by a factor of 1.5. How do I know? Well, I track my time on a project. At the end of the project, I compare m...
Using Cost Resources: Best Practice
Cost resources are a very useful feature of Project (and also therefore of Project Server), but there is at least one rule you need to follow. Rather than telling you how to use cost resources, plea...
7 Habits of Highly Effective Microsoft Project Users
The great Stephen R. Covey inspired so many of us. His teachings are integrated into every aspect of my personal and professional life. I recently took some time to pause and reflect on how the ‘7 H...
Three Common Principles for Project Initiation
The biggest decision in the life of a project is the original commitment to pursue the project. It sets the goal and begins a series of events that could last for years. It makes sense that initiating...
Best Practices for Microsoft Project, Part 2
In this continuation of my previous article, I offer five additional best practices that project managers should keep in mind when using their current version of Microsoft Project. Know the Limitation...
Best Practices for Microsoft Project, Part 1
No matter what features Microsoft introduces into its latest release of Microsoft Project, it will forever fail to address some basic needs for project managers as they approach the tool. Here are six...
The Five Secrets of Project Scheduling
Have you ever created a project schedule and later realized that you should have approached it a little differently? Have you ever created a schedule and then found that the way the information is org...