A Project Template is an important artifact that projects should create during their closing phase. Project Templates help in quicker planning of other similar future projects which otherwise would have to be started from scratch. Creating templates save a lot of planning time as it helps the project to know the rough estimate of project Read more about Creating Project Templates in Microsoft Project 2013[…]
EPMA, one of the nation’s most innovative and leading Project and Portfolio Management consulting firms, announced today their newest team member, Sharon Martinez as Director of Business Development. In this role, she will be responsible for identifying revenue-generating opportunities, as well as developing and implementing a comprehensive internal business plan to increase revenues and profits. Read more about EPMA Continues to Attract Industry Best Talent[…]
Imagine you’re having your dream house built and you’re very excited to see how far along the builders have come so you decide to check on the progress. You arrive onsite, two weeks into the project, and you see a bunch of people busily working. You ask the foreman how things are going he responds Read more about Microsoft Project Vs Microsoft Excel[…]
Inserting tasks in Microsoft Project is fairly easy, have you ever wanted to quickly insert a new task within an existing task list in your project plan? Here are five different ways to insert a new task. Typing at the top row of a blank project schedule and pressing Enter automatically adds a new task, another way is clicking Read more about Five Ways To Insert Tasks In MS Project[…]
A known bug has been found when a user follows the recommended practice of assigning a ‘Cost’ Resource to a summary task. When using the ‘Assign Resources’ dialogue if you specify the cost then click ‘Assign’ the cost will go to $0.00. In the scenario below I selected the cost resource, specified $3000.00 then pressed Read more about Assigning Cost Resources Bug[…]
One of the common complaints I hear with Project Pro 2013 is that once you make a change in the schedule the resulting effects are hard to see. Let’s start with why this is important and then look at how you can customize the highlighting to your liking. Microsoft Project is a scheduling tool and Read more about Highlighting Changes in Microsoft Project 2013[…]
EPMA, one of the nation’s most innovative and leading Project and Portfolio Management consulting firms, announced today that its Houston office was named one of The National Association for Business Resources (NABR) recipients of Houston’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For™. “It’s another incredible achievement and milestone for EPMA.” said Michael Samadi, EPMA’s President Read more about EPMA Awarded One of “Houston’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For™” by the NABR[…]
If you are a Microsoft Project user you may have come across the ‘Publish’ Column. If you were curious you may have even looked at the tool tip on the ‘Publish’ column. The tool tip: “Indicates whether the current task should be published to Microsoft Project Web App (PWA) with the rest of the project” Read more about What does the Publish field in Microsoft Project do?[…]