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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
I was recently fortunate enough to sit in on our Microsoft Project training sessions, Managing Projects with Microsoft Project. The class covered something that no one had ever explained to me in a way that I truly understood; the ‘Start-to-Finish’ dependency. I struggled to find anything online that gave a clear description so the aim Read more about Start-To-Finish and Other Task Dependency Types In Microsoft Project[…]