Category Archives: Project Desktop

Your Schedule is Totally Mental

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

Folks like me often get a lot of push back from project managers as we work with their PMO to ramp up the quality of their schedules.  Most often, I see complaints not about the schedule itself, but about the … Continue reading →

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SharePoint Conference Project Server BI Linkfest

Posted on November 14, 2012 by

Thanks everyone for coming out to #SPC171 just now, where Microsoft’s Mike McLean and I skimmed a rock over what’s new in Project Server 2013 BI.  Looking for more?  Well, you came to the right place. As we mentioned, we’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Admin, BI, Project Desktop, Reporting, Self Referential, SharePoint | 1 Comment

Task Paths in Project 2013

Posted on September 20, 2012 by

Here’s probably one of the most interesting new features (well, other than reporting) added to the new Microsoft Project desktop client – the Task Path feature.  This feature allows you to easily review a schedule to assess the impact of … Continue reading →

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Project 2013 Preview

Posted on July 17, 2012 by

As you all probably know, the Project 2013 preview is now upon us.  Since I’m still in that immediate post-vacation fugue state, I figured that I would simply provide the link to the new and improved Project site over at … Continue reading →

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Project VBA and Azure: Better Together

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

I know what you’re all thinking.  Project 2010 is fantastic – and we can’t wait till we get to see the next version.  The only problem is that there’s this one critical function that Microsoft really needs to bake into … Continue reading →

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Revisiting Project Trend Analysis and Project Change Logs

Posted on May 17, 2012 by

The question always arises as to how to best take a snapshot of project data, and use that in timephased reports or change logs.  In fact, by my count, this is the third time I’ve addressed this topic in this … Continue reading →

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Calculating Elapsed Duration

Posted on May 4, 2012 by

I’ve been using so many of Microsoft Project’s approximately 900 functions for so long, that often times, I forget that some of the functions I take for granted are often undiscovered to long time users of the software.  In the … Continue reading →

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Accruing BCWP for Ahead of Schedule Tasks

Posted on February 20, 2012 by

So I sat down a couple of days ago to knock out a couple of screenshots to support my upcoming EVM presentation at the Project Conference.  My goal was to illustrate a well-known issue with how EVM is calculated within … Continue reading →

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Defining an Update Methodology (Part V)

Posted on December 28, 2011 by

This post wraps up the discussion on developing update methodologies.  The first three posts addressed some of the basic principles of updating schedules as well as some of the specific mechanical elements within the Microsoft Project desktop client. The last … Continue reading →

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Defining an Update Methodology (Part IV)

Posted on December 27, 2011 by

Continuing in an ongoing discussion on defining an update methodology….in this episode, I’d like to talk about a couple of scenarios specific to IT.  Tomorrow, I’ll talk about construction.  The general concept is to introduce two diametrically opposite update methodologies … Continue reading →

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