While most companies are open to hiring contractors for their projects, they are still skeptical on giving them access to their network. We have many clients that, while want contractors to work on their project and provide input to the project schedule, do not like the idea of granting them access to their Project Server. Read more about Microsoft Project 2010–Save for Sharing feature[…]
Fun, Geeky Microsoft Project Trick This Microsoft Project trick has been making its rounds through the Microsoft Project user community for several years, but for those of you who have not yet seen the trick, it is well worth the 5 minutes that it takes to check it out. It even works with Manually Scheduled Read more about Fun Microsoft Project Trick: Walking Tasks[…]
Removing custom View, Table, Filter, and Group clutter While performing your day-to-day project schedule management activities, you may create some custom Microsoft Project Views, Tables, Filters, or Groups to help visualize or present the information in your project in various ways. Perhaps you have created a custom project milestone view that displays a filtered list Read more about How to Remove Custom Views, Tables, Filters, and Groups from a Microsoft Project Schedule[…]
For your downloading pleasure, we have added two more Microsoft Project 2010 quick reference cards to the pack — bringing the total up to SEVEN (7) pages — to help you learn the MS Project interface, keyboard shortcuts, Ribbon menus, the resource assignment variables, and Task Types… nicely packaged in a downloadable Microsoft Project 2010 Quick Read more about Free Download: UPDATED Quick Reference Card Pack for Microsoft Project 2010[…]
Whilst training users how to use Microsoft Project I am forever explaining to people what constraints will do to their schedule should they be applied in a liberal fashion. Students try to fight me believing that they really need to constrain the finish dates of a tasks to finish on a certain day. I then Read more about Setting a Deadline in Microsoft Project[…]
After publishing a Project on Project server 2010, you go to see the status of the queue, you find that the job for ‘Sync to Reporting’ fails. An easy way to catch this is when you run a report that is pulling data from a Projects that fails to sync with the reporting database, you Read more about Sync to Reporting Database Fails[…]
“So what is the difference between % Complete and % Work Complete ?” Or “Why does Microsoft project have two different fields to track progress?”. These are some of the most common questions asked by a new Microsoft Project user. Well, I am hoping to answer these questions through this blog. Before I can start, Read more about %Complete Vs %Work Complete[…]
Yesterday a client emailed me with a snapshot of his view and said, he just created this Task – level PWA view and included Grouping in it, but when he goes to the PWA view, he sees the task being grouped together except, there are no group titles being displayed. I have created a test Read more about Grouping Titles Does Not Show in a View[…]