Status reports are great, but what happens when you are diligent and sending these out on a consistent basis, yet your audience doesn’t seem to be reading your status report. This is where status meetings come into play. It is recommended that a status meeting should take place on a weekly basis. According to Eric Verzuh, (The Read more about Status Reports: Form of Communication 3[…]
Last month, I mentioned that communication is one of the biggest factors that can make or break your project and your career. Did you ponder on this? To many, status reports are tedious and annoying, but to a true project manager, status reports are a great contribution to the success of a project. Status reports serve as your record of Read more about Status Reports: Form of Communication 2[…]
Over the past few months I’ve been at one of our client’s site and have been in an Analyst role. I was tasked with helping resolve various issues users have been facing while using Microsoft Project Server 2010 as well as Microsoft Project Professional 2010. It has been a tremendous learning experience of figuring out Read more about Doctors in Project Management Tools[…]
When managing a project, one of the most important things to do is establish communication. Communication is one of the biggest factors that can make or break your project and your project management career. While a project can have many risks and issues affecting it, a project still has the potential of closing successfully. However, if Read more about Status Reports: Form of Communication 1[…]
When using Microsoft Project Server/Project Online/PPM you get very familiar with the Quick Launch Menu. This menu runs along the left side of the screen and contains links to all of the “frequently used” pages within PWA. Some of the standards links would be Project, Tasks, Timesheet, Resource, etc. Most of these links will prove Read more about Microsoft PPM 2013 Project Sites: Manipulating the Quick Launch Menu in Project Server/Project Online[…]
The built-in ‘Created’ field can quickly display when (date and time) a task was originally added to a Microsoft Project Schedule. Surprisingly, this hidden gem is not exposed in any built-in Microsoft Project tables, but you can easily add it to any Task table to see when each task was added to the project. This Read more about How to View When a Task Was Added to a Microsoft Project Schedule[…]
Many of you have probably noticed that once you are on a project site in Project Server /Project Online/PPM there is no intuitive or easy way to return back to PWA; most users resort to pressing the back button until they return to PWA. That approach works if you haven’t clicked around much but if Read more about Microsoft PPM 2013 Project Sites: Adding a ‘PWA Home’ link to the ‘Global Navigation’ Bar[…]
My name is Debbie Perez. I have been supporting Microsoft Project and Project Server for over 2 years. During this time, I have gained many ‘bucket loads’ of knowledge and wisdom in process and tool management. Sadly, because I did not have a Project Management background, I did not understand many of the concepts related Read more about New Light – Debbie Perez[…]