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A Better Microsoft Project: Background Color in D * U = W fields to Communicate Which Fields are Protected and Editable
This article is the third in this series, A Better Microsoft Project. You can find the first two articles here and here. I believe the fields involved in assigning resources in MS Project have created...Read More
Misconception #4: Managing Resources in Project is Too Hard
Managing resources in Project is certainly not simple. If you’ve worked in Primavera or other scheduling tools, you know there’s even more complexity for how to utilize resources. Of course, there are...Read More
Advanced Task Types –Transcription
Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Praveen Malik’s session, Advanced Task Types – Everything You Need to Know, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may...Read More
The Conundrum of Task Types in MS Project
Let’s consider the following situation: Your project has been running behind schedule for the past few weeks. You have done everything in your power to rectify the situation and bring the project back...Read More
Webinar Recap: SIPOC Workshop Facilitation – Part 3: Workshop Facilitation and Questions
Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Jeff Bongiovani’s session, SIPOC Workshop Facilitation – Part 3, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to us...Read More
Waterfall Should Have Never Existed: Part 2
We left off in Part 1 of this article asking the question of HOW Agile and Critical Path could exist side-by-side in a single project schedule without affecting each other (much)? I laid out three dil...Read More
Analogous and Parametric Estimating
Microsoft Project, in its various releases (i.e., Online desktop, 2019, 2016, etc.), can become an accurate estimating tool for top-down (Analogous) and bottom-up (Parametric) estimating. This is acco...Read More
What Are the Most Important Options Settings in Microsoft Project?
Introduction Microsoft Project offers three types of options in the Project Options dialog. These option types include: Application Options – These options control how the software looks and works, an...Read More
Webinar Recap: They Finally Did It! Microsoft Releases a Brand-New Version of Microsoft Project
Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Tim Runcie’s They Finally Did It! Microsoft Releases a Brand-New Version of Microsoft Project webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenien...Read More
Webinar Recap: Agile Series Part 3 – Best Practices & Real World Use of Agile with MS Project / Project PPM
Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Tim Runcie’s Agile Series Part 3 webinar being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this transcript for th...Read More