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Do you ever get the feeling that Murphy, owner of Murphy’s Law, invites himself to every project? Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, so it’s important to anticipate high-risk areas and determine what buffer can be applied to ensure the project is on time and on budget. One way of doing this is Read more about How to Leverage Contingency in Your Project Schedule[…]
Many organizations need reports that retrieve Tasks and Assignments timephased data. The problem is performance issues, especially in organizations that have a lot of Project Online reporting data. Microsoft acknowledged that not all organizations would need the timephased data to be reported by day. So they introduced an option to roll up the data on Read more about Configure Rollup of Timephased Reporting Data in Project Online[…]
Do you struggle with getting your team to attend your weekly meetings or obtain a status on their action items? Sometimes leveraging a tool such as MS Outlook can assist you, the Project Manager, to increase compliance with your team, and ultimately increase your monitor and control efficiency. Let’s look at two important weekly Monitor Read more about How a PM can leverage MS Outlook to improve Planning and Scheduling[…]
The activity we will tackle in this blog installment is how to communicate the unfortunate news to the customer. Continuing from part 1; we have come up with a course of action to recover from a ship workers’ strike that pushed our delivery out by at least 7 weeks on a critical project that the Read more about Bad News Bear(er)s Part 2: Don’t break the client relationship[…]
If you are familiar with SharePoint Add-ins, then you may also know about different Add-In permission request scopes available in SharePoint Server 2013/2016/Online. Here is the TechNet article that explains Add-ins permissions in SharePoint. In this article, I am going to explain different permission request scopes that are available to develop Project Server 2013/2016/Online Add-Ins. Read more about Understanding Project Server/Project Online Add-in Permissions[…]
Now that you have an idea about what is Risk and how to manage it, as discussed in Part 1, this next part will be a FAQ around this subject with Laura Holder, one of EPMA’S Certified Senior Project Managers. Can you please introduce yourself and explain your role as a Read more about Risk Management (Part 2)[…]
Do you need to build a team for a new project? Then this post can give you a game plan for the first step in the team building process. In this video, Debbie Perez will discuss the intricacies of forming teams from the perspective of a Project Manager. By watching this video, you can expect Read more about Team Building for Projects (Stage 1: Forming)[…]
How often do you find yourself reaching for your mobile or typing into the Google search bar on your laptop to research a question quickly? Did you know that on average adults spend 8-12 hours per day consuming media? Social media and e-commerce industries have grown significantly in the last decade and users are turning Read more about Just Google it![…]