Category: Resources

Deliver Project Portfolios like a Boss with Effective Resource Planning

Posted on by Laura Holder

Have you ever over-promised delivery on a project portfolio and under-delivered, leaving management to wonder if you knew what you were doing?  Or worse yet, under-promised and over-delivered, with management wondering if you might have been sandbagging or wasting resources?  Either way is not beneficial in building confidence in your capability to deliver the committed Read more about Deliver Project Portfolios like a Boss with Effective Resource Planning[…]

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Resource Allocations can Make or Break Your Project

Posted on by Michelle Chambers

Over/Under-Allocated Resources Your project schedules may be outlined and detailed to perfection according to the project scope, agreed-upon deliverables, and organization standards and methodologies, however, if you’re not careful by the time for project execution, resource issues can overwhelm the project before the first status meeting. If your project resources are over-utilized across the organization, Read more about Resource Allocations can Make or Break Your Project[…]

Resource Management or lack of, can make or break your company’s project portfolio.

Posted on by Laura Holder

INTRODUCTION A project’s success rests significantly on its team, making resources one of the most important investments in the project. Yet in most cases, Resource Management is practically non-existent. How do you ensure that the right resources, are working on the right thing, at the right time? There are 2 things that must come into Read more about Resource Management or lack of, can make or break your company’s project portfolio.[…]

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How To Use Deadlines in Microsoft Project

Posted on by Michelle Chambers

When you’re working on a project, you need to understand how your different tasks will affect when your project ends in order to reach important deadlines. To help manage those important dates, Microsoft Project offers functionality to allow Project Managers the option to enter/set a deadline for any task in the project schedule. Deadlines in Read more about How To Use Deadlines in Microsoft Project[…]

Booking Type to Proposed

Posted on by Debbie Perez

Using the Build Team From Enterprise feature to set a resource’s Booking Status to “Proposed” provides several benefits: Changes resource classification in the Resource Center. Prevents or removes the tasks from the resources “My Tasks” page. Prevents the system from sending the automated emails when the project is published. Is a good way to clean up resources My Read more about Booking Type to Proposed[…]

Why are some of your resource’s timesheet entries doubling in your reports?

Posted on by Sinem Tepe

Some of you folks who write reports for Microsoft Project Server have experienced this frustrating issue, where for some of your resources, hours they have entered into their timesheet are showing as multiples in your report result set. Why is this, as it seems it’s randomly occurring? For those who’ve not figured it out yet, Read more about Why are some of your resource’s timesheet entries doubling in your reports?[…]