Here is a quick blog to introduce Microsoft Project users to a quick and easy tip when dealing with task durations and elapsed days. In Microsoft Project it is possible to model duration in terms of ‘elapsed’ days. Elapsed days are used when a task’s duration needs to disregard any ‘nonworking time’ or resource constraints. Read more about Elapsed Days in Microsoft Project[…]
Over the past few months I’ve been at one of our client’s site and have been in an Analyst role. I was tasked with helping resolve various issues users have been facing while using Microsoft Project Server 2010 as well as Microsoft Project Professional 2010. It has been a tremendous learning experience of figuring out Read more about Doctors in Project Management Tools[…]
I was sitting in one of Tom Henry’s training classes earlier this week when a new feature of Microsoft Project 2013 was noticed. When making a task inactive in Project 2010 the task was automatically shot back to the project start date. You would then have to add an additional predecessor to the next task Read more about Inactive Tasks in Microsoft Project 2010 vs. Project 2013[…]
I have been working in the Project and Portfolio Management realm for a number of years now. Over the years I have seen clients run projects in numerous industries ranging from Financial Institutions in London to Oil & Gas Companies in Houston. I have seen many failed implementations where people have hired a bunch of Read more about Baby Steps to a Successful PPM Implementation[…]
I have worked with Project Managers from various backgrounds that have used all kinds of technologies to create project schedules no matter what their background or technology expertise is they always have the same questions: “What level of detail do I need to go into?” “How do I update project progress once my project has Read more about Updating Project Progress[…]
EPMA offers free, live webinars throughout the year aimed at helping Project Management Professionals in their careers. This is a great opportunity to learn something new as well as to network with other professionals across the country and around the world. We hope that you will join us online for our next event. This October, Read more about Fall / Winter Webinar Series[…]
Last Blog, I have showed you how to setup the performance counters for Project Server and SharePoint to start recording into the SharePoint Logging database. Today, I will walk you through how to query the data in the Logging DB to extract the performance counters and their values. The new Performance Counters we created last Read more about Capturing Performance Counters for SharePoint and Project Server into the Logging Database (Part 2)[…]
For those of you out there that connect Microsoft Project to Project Server/Project Online/PPM, you have probably come across this but like many others ignored it on several occasions. When you first launch Microsoft Project, you are prompted to select which ‘Profile’ or ‘Account’ you would like to connect to. You will also notice there Read more about What Does ‘Load Summary Resource Assignments’ in Microsoft Project do?[…]