Author: Michael Samadi

Offshore Technology Conference 2013: EPMA set to exhibit at world’s preeminent event for oil and gas drilling, exploration, production and environmental protection conference

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EPMA announced today that it will be one of this year’s exhibitors at the annual Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston, Texas from May 6 – 9.  In the midst of the 2,500 exhibiting companies at OTC, EPMA is cementing its place in the Oil and Gas conference by  being the only PPM consulting and Read more about Offshore Technology Conference 2013: EPMA set to exhibit at world’s preeminent event for oil and gas drilling, exploration, production and environmental protection conference[…]

Building a Custom Dashboard in Project 2013

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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[…]

Control the list of Reports by Department in Project Server 2010 – Part 1

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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[…]

Fun Microsoft Project Trick: Walking Tasks

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Fun, Geeky Microsoft Project Trick This Microsoft Project trick has been making its rounds through the Microsoft Project user community for several years, but for those of you who have not yet seen the trick, it is well worth the 5 minutes that it takes to check it out. It even works with Manually Scheduled Read more about Fun Microsoft Project Trick: Walking Tasks[…]

How to Remove Custom Views, Tables, Filters, and Groups from a Microsoft Project Schedule

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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[…]

Free Download: UPDATED Quick Reference Card Pack for Microsoft Project 2010

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For your downloading pleasure, we have added two more Microsoft Project 2010 quick reference cards to the pack — bringing the total up to SEVEN (7) pages — to help you learn the MS Project interface, keyboard shortcuts, Ribbon menus,  the resource assignment variables, and Task Types… nicely packaged in a downloadable Microsoft Project 2010 Quick Read more about Free Download: UPDATED Quick Reference Card Pack for Microsoft Project 2010[…]

Project Server 2010-Approval Center-Status Update History-Blank Actual Work Column

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Wow! That’s a long title! Well, I could not find a simpler phrase, sorry! Anyway, for those of you who have not read their RSS feeds yet, the October 2010 Cumulative Update for Project Server has been released. More information here. However, one of the updates caught my eye, as I remember one of my Read more about Project Server 2010-Approval Center-Status Update History-Blank Actual Work Column[…]

Indicator for Day of the Week

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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[…]