project schedule
The 20-Percent Startup Solution
How to stop playing games with your project schedule Most baselined project plans are inaccurate because they have unrealistic start dates, finish dates, work hours, costs, and/or durations. The follo...
How to Set up a Project Schedule to Be Used in an Organization without a PPM Solution
Download the Microsoft Project sample file. Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical category o...
The 7 Habits of Proactive Microsoft PPM Users: Habit 7
Sharpen the Saw No doubt you know the story of the man in the forest who is too busy sawing to stop and sharpen the saw. Every day we come across project managers who are too busy updating their sched...
The 7 Habits of Proactive Microsoft PPM Users: Habit 4
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 ...
Tip: Trust Your Formulas!
Have you ever had a situation where a tested, tried and true formula was producing an “incorrect” result? Recently one of my client schedulers wanted to know, “How can a formula prod...
Three Strategies for Capturing Resource Effort for Proposal
Project proposals come to the PMO in many ways: as a phone call, text message, email, or initiated on the project server. In all cases, the governance for capturing resource estimate needs to be defin...
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...
Ask the Experts: Counting Task Occurrences with Microsoft Project
Angelo of Rochester, NY: When managing project schedules I need to produce a count of various tasks. For example, how many late tasks are in a schedule, how many critical tasks, how many milestones, e...
Performance Tuning Your Scheduling Practices
Planning and controlling projects through Microsoft Project schedules that use precedence diagramming method and critical path method for all of your major initiatives is itself a major accomplishment...