Slack Integration
A Better Microsoft Project: Workload Levelling and Resource-Critical Path
Most projects are logic-constrained projects (or, if I might suggest, wrongfully treated as such). A logic-constrained project has a duration only determined by logic (i.e., the network of depend...Read More
A Better Microsoft Project for Time Modeling: Deadlines and the (Most‑) Critical Path
In my previous post, I explained that I’d be making a case in a series of articles for adding certain features to Microsoft’s Project for Desktop and Project for the web software. Here, I’d like to su...Read More
JIRA Panel Discussion Transcription
Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Michael Dennis and J Caldwell’s Jira Panel Discussion, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of our members. You may wish to use this tra...Read More
Using a Finish By Field Instead of Deadline Dates in Microsoft Project
Background Information In my third and previous article in this series, I demonstrated how the use of Deadline dates can negatively impact the Total Slack calculations for tasks in your Microsoft Proj...Read More
How Do Deadline Dates Impact Critical Path Calculations in Microsoft Project?
Background Information The other day I had an interesting conversation with a colleague about the impact of Deadline dates on Critical Path calculations. He told me that several of his clients are hes...Read More
How Much Time Do I Have Before My Task is Late in Microsoft Project?
Background Information In my first MPUG post about the Deadline dates feature in Microsoft Project, I documented how to set a Deadline date on a task to specify the “target” date for when that task ne...Read More
The Project Communication Plan
For small projects, communication can be quite simple. Communication for the project of heading home after the holidays might be no more than “Call us when you get there.” But good communication grows...Read More
Webinar Recap: Transformative Leadership: How to Elevate your Impact with Less Effort and None of the Stress
Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Ravi Raman’s session, Transformative Leadership: How to Elevate your Impact with Less Effort and None of the Stress, being provided by MPUG fo...Read More
Project Take-Over Checklist
Looking for Red Flags Periodically during my career at IBM, a live project would be thrown “over the fence,” and, inevitably, hit me on the head while I was working on another full-time project. These...Read More
Gantt Chart Wizard: A Blast Out of the Past
Background I was recently reading the latest posts in the Project Standard and Professional user forum, when I found a recent reply to a question that was originally posted in March 2011. I was greatl...Read More