Content Types: Article
How to Quickly Calculate Your Project’s Risks for Success
Assessing Risk Countless studies over the last four decades point to similar findings: Approximately 50% of projects you undertake will be late and/or over budget, and approximately 25% will be cancel...
How To Remove (blank) Values in Your Excel Pivot Table
You might call it perfectionism, but I hate when my reports don’t look their best. One of the most irritating elements is the “(blank)” text you may have on your Excel pivot tables. ...
Back to Basics: Project Manager vs. Project Sponsor
I regularly conduct PMP training workshops. About one hour in, I discuss project stakeholders, and almost always the same question comes up: What is the difference between the project manager and the ...
Back to Basics: What is the Role of a Project Manager?
There are a few reasons you may wish to understand the role of a project manager more fully. Perhaps it is because you are looking for a project management job and want to have a career in project man...
The Importance of Kindness for Project Managers and TeamsÂ
Kindness can be a tricky topic in the business world. If you look online, you’ll see multiple articles written about this theme. One of the challenges of incorporating kindness into the workplac...
A Better Microsoft Project: Background Color in D * U = W fields to Communicate Which Fields are Protected and Editable
This article is the third in this series, A Better Microsoft Project. You can find the first two articles here and here. I believe the fields involved in assigning resources in MS Project have created...
A Better Microsoft Project for Time Modeling: Deadlines and the (Most‑) Critical Path
In my previous post, I explained that I’d be making a case in a series of articles for adding certain features to Microsoft’s Project for Desktop and Project for the web software. Here, I’d like to su...
A Better Microsoft Project
This article is the first in a series, in which I wish to make a case for adding certain features to Microsoft’s Project for Desktop and Project for the web software. You might wonder why I am publish...
Create a Custom Schedule Status Field in Microsoft Project
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 project (or the Current date if you have not set a Status d...