Projects: Managing Schedules
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Planned and Actual Percent Complete in MS Project
While interacting with MS Project users across a couple of industry verticals recently, I encountered a question from a senior mechanical engineering lead regarding Planned and Actual Percent Complete...
Simplifying Schedule Risk Analysis Using Microsoft Project Custom Fields – Transcription
Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of John Owen’s session, Simplifying Schedule Risk Analysis Using Microsoft Project Custom Fields, being provided by MPUG for the convenience of o...
An Oldie but Goodie: Create a Hammock Task
Background Over the years, I have found a common need for many project managers is to create a task in their Microsoft Project schedule that spans the entire timeframe of the project, from the Start d...
How to Turn a Project Around
One of the hardest things to do when you are deep into managing a project is to see precisely when it is going off the rails. Meaning, you are so busy working the project day-to-day that it could star...
Mastering Project Integration: Creating Master Projects in Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project provides the ability to integrate individual projects into a single master project. A master project, which is often used to represent a program, provides numerous capabilities to us...
Creating and Using Project Templates in Project for the Web
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The Two-Pass Technique
In schedule management, one of the scheduling approaches to develop a project or program schedule is the Critical Path Method (CPM). This is one of the oldest and widely used scheduling methods. The C...
Cancel an Unneeded Task
Background Information During the Planning stage of a project, it is appropriate to delete unneeded tasks from the project. After you have saved a baseline for your project, however, it is a very bad ...
Understanding the Meaning of Scheduling Ignores Resource Calendars
Background Information In Microsoft Project, you can completely override the schedule of any task by assigning a Task calendar to the task. Common needs for using a Task calendar might include the fol...