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Reporting On Your Microsoft Project Plan in SharePoint
Microsoft Project with SharePoint integration allows project managers to maintain their project schedule with all the heavy lifting in MS Project, while project team members collaborate and work on the project without ever having to leave SharePoint. But, what is the best way to report on the MS Project plan in SharePoint? This article will…
What is this Project Plan, Anyhow?
Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: What is the “Project Plan” to you? Is it the master schedule; the planned costs for the project; the resource allocations for the project; the risk identification and mitigation…
Mind-Mapping Your Way to Better Microsoft Project Plans
“Mind-mapping” (or, as it is also known, “concept mapping”) is a proven method and technology for organizing your thinking, no matter what you’re thinking about. Students now learn this technique in school so that term papers and research reports are better thought out and organized for their professors. Writers use this technique to better prepare…
Mayday! Project Crash Investigation, Part 2: What to Do When a Project Fails
In Part 1 of this series, I introduced the notion that project managers can learn a lot from airline industry professionals and their great safety systems and also apply those principles to projects in trouble or that have already crashed and burned. In this segment of “Mayday: Project Crash Investigation,” I continue with this airline…
Project and Visio – Just Like Fred and Ginger
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,…
Your Personal Assistant: Highlight Tasks Due this Week
In this article, I will focus on a very simple tip – How to highlight the tasks due this week every time the project plan is opened. Looks very simple and it is indeed, very simple! Click View tab. Click Macros dropdown and select Visual Basic In the editor, double click your current project on…
