Dale Howard

Background Are you displaying the Project Summary Task in every one of your projects in Microsoft Project? If not, I strongly recommend that you do

Background A number of organizations in the United States, including agencies of the US federal government, use a compressed work schedule to manag

Background In my previous article on Understanding the Nonworking Time Calendar, I showed you how to apply an alternate base calendar as the Projec

Background There was an interesting question recently in the Tech Community Project user forum. A user asked how to change the default working cale

Background Information I answered a question recently in the Tech Community Project user forum about how to edit an existing enterprise template in

Overview Have you ever tried to use the default task Status field in Microsoft Project? This field uses the Status date that you set in your projec

Background Information Last month there was a fascinating “brain teaser” question posted in the Project and Planner User Group on LinkedIn. The use

Background There was a really interesting scheduling question posted recently in the Tech Community user forum on Microsoft Project. Although I was

Background Information In my third and previous article in this series, I demonstrated how the use of Deadline dates can negatively impact the Tota

Background Information The other day I had an interesting conversation with a colleague about the impact of Deadline dates on Critical Path calcula