Red, Amber, Green or maybe Red, Yellow, Green. Whatever colors you use for your indicators, most organizations typically have 3 colors. You might call this your “RAG” indicator or “Traffic” indicator or maybe even your “Stoplight” indicator. This has been the “standard” for many years at many companies. However, is it really necessary for you Read more about Yellow – Just Another Reason to Argue[…]
I recently presented a webinar demonstration of the new reporting feature in Microsoft Project 2013 for MPUG. As a follow up to the presentation, I am going to demonstrate how I created the custom dashboard seen in the webinar. Below is an example of a dashboard that I created. As you can see, it has Read more about Building a Custom Dashboard in Project 2013[…]
Scenario You are using Project Server 2010 across multiple departments, and now have a long list of Reports in your Business Intelligence Center (as shown below). You would like to control the view of these reports for users, and ideally by the department the user belongs to. In this scenario, you have few options. Option Read more about Control the list of Reports by Department in Project Server 2010 – Part 1[…]
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[…]
I am sure many of you might have come across this request from clients who want to either implement a rule where certain tasks start on a particular day of the week (for example – Monday), or at least have some indication, which shows that the task is NOT starting on a particular day. Recently, Read more about Indicator for Day of the Week[…]