Think Win-Win While the project schedule is an important tool for many project managers, it is often misunderstood (or not understood at all) by project team members. When building the work breakdown structure (WBS) for the project, you will get a more accurate definition of scope (and as a result, the schedule) by involving the…

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical Category of the Talent Triangle. Download the slides from this session. Event Description: Why are Project and Visio similar to Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers? Each is totally amazing by itself, but when you put them together,…

When we think about measuring the performance of a project, it’s not really the same as measuring the performance of a team or a process. So we need to think a little differently about the kinds of measures that will tell us what we really need to know. When we measure the performance of the…

This article illustrates how easy it is to use a built-in Microsoft font as a set of graphical indicators within an Excel report to show key performance indicator (KPI) values for your projects. We’ll use OData and Excel 2013 to create a simple report based on an easy-to-read “stoplight” view detailing the performance of the…