Monthly Archives: September 2011

Atlanta Presentations Follow Up

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

Thanks to everyone who attended my two presentations at the Atlanta Microsoft Project event held last week in Alpharetta.  As promised, here’s some follow up information (organized more or less by topic): -skip to the bottom for a list of … Continue reading →

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Rolling Up Physical Percent Complete

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

A couple of weeks ago, I kicked off a bit of an exercise in personal improvement by revisiting my own understanding of how Microsoft Project calculates Actual Cost and Earned Value measurements.  This post represents a continuation of that effort, … Continue reading →

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Developing a Baseline Execution Index Report

Posted on September 20, 2011 by

Well, some of you have been reading this blog for nigh on 4 months, and through this medium, I feel that we’ve built a solid and trusting relationship.  Hence, it’s probably about time for me to admit something rather embarrassing.  … Continue reading →

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Houston Techfest Coming Up on October 15th

Posted on September 19, 2011 by

In Houston and looking for some free SharePoint content?  Houston Techfest will be offering two SharePoint tracks at the all day free conference held over at U of H next month. http://www.houstontechfest.com/dotnetnuke/HoustonTechFest/Agenda/tabid/55/Default.aspx …also lots of other content for developers and … Continue reading →

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You Want Workflow? We Got Workflow!

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

Check out our UMT software folks’ blog for the announcement of our exciting new product: UMT Workflow Designer. Link to the blog: http://www.ro.umt.com/blog/2011/09/15/umt-workflow-designer/ Link to the product site: http://www.umtworkflowdesigner.com/en-us/default.aspx Stay tuned to both that blog and this blog to keep … Continue reading →

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Developing a Cumulative Milestone Report (Part II)

Posted on September 14, 2011 by

In the last post, I reviewed a SQL query that may be added to an ODC file to generate the required data set.  In this post, I’ll talk about how to configure the pivot table within Excel to generate a … Continue reading →

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Developing a Cumulative Milestone Report (Part I)

Posted on September 13, 2011 by

Well, I got some very good feedback from that post I did a couple of weeks ago, and decided to throw some more BI examples at the wall to see what sticks.  This post kicks off a twoish part series … Continue reading →

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Tracking Actual Costs in Microsoft Project 2010 (Part IV)

Posted on September 9, 2011 by

If you read the first three parts of this series, you’ll see that I talked about the three options to control how Actual Cost is tracked within a Microsoft Project schedule. Actual Costs are always calculated by Project – Covered … Continue reading →

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Tracking Actual Costs in Microsoft Project 2010 (Part III)

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

Yes, I know what you’re thinking.  At this point, I probably should be arm wrestling Brian Kennemer for the title of who“endlessly obsesses over Microsoft Project” more.  (And Brian, watch out, I’ll be looking for you in Phoenix next year.)  … Continue reading →

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Tracking Actual Costs in Microsoft Project 2010 (Part II)

Posted on September 7, 2011 by

Continuing in the thread of documenting more on Actual Cost calculations than you ever wanted to know, let’s look at what happens when we manually edit the Actual Cost for a task on which a resource is actually assigned. For … Continue reading →

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