Projects: Managing Schedules
Enhance time management and planning skills with our expert guides on managing project schedules. Learn to create realistic timelines, track progress, and ensure timely project delivery with MPUG.
How To Reschedule Incomplete Work
A colleague posed a problem recently. He recorded earned value after tracking work done in the first status period of his project. When recording work done in the second status period, he returned to ...
Managing Multiple Projects
There have been times throughout my career that I was given a “project,” but soon realized that it was really a group of related projects or a portfolio. In MS Project, a master project (or consolidat...
Project Management and Working Remotely with Kids at Home
Many of us have dreamt of working from home. Cutting out a long commute coupled with wearing comfy clothes from your cozy home office sounds great, right? Under normal circumstances, this might be an ...
A Deep Dive into Risk Matrix Reporting
Working with projects, programs, and portfolios, generates a lot of data. For example, in project management you have data such as planned start, planned cost, planned story points, total number of ri...
Set Date Formatting by Project
Background There was an interesting question recently in the Microsoft Project user forum. The question was so interesting, as was my answer to the question, that I wanted to share this information wi...
Six Ways to Keep Your Team Motivated When the Going Gets Tough
Life comes with its challenges, setbacks, and failures. We all expect that, and we know that the same goes for projects, as well. Even with the most qualified team members, the most supportive and und...
Do Calendars or Scheduling Have You Stumped?!
Microsoft Project is a powerful scheduling tool, but how exactly does the software schedule? The answer is found in a single word: calendars. In fact, the schedule of every project is based o...
How to Correctly Setup Actual Dates in MS Project
How do you expect MS Project (MSP) to behave when you enter an Actual Start date for a task? You would likely expect it to store the date in the ‘Actual Start’ field and stop there, but MSP does somet...
The 20-Percent Startup Solution
How to stop playing games with your project schedule Most baselined project plans are inaccurate because they have unrealistic start dates, finish dates, work hours, costs, and/or durations. The follo...