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The Bottom-Line PM: A Realist’s Guide to Using SharePoint and Microsoft Project for Project Management
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Please pardon the interruption, folks. My paying job has had me hopping with deliverables, and I wasn't able to whip out a high-quality post in time for publication last week. I'm sure you missed me. But having missed a week posting – being...
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Now that we've created some dependencies on our test project , it's probably time to take another detour from the actual doing and discuss a bit more theory. If you have any involvement at all in PM on a regular basis, you've probably heard...
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Remember way back at the beginning of this blog when I talked about dependencies? Of course, I had no real idea about what they were at the time. And, to be honest, I still don't know more than very high-level stuff. But linking your project tasks...
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All your tasks have been entered into Project and you've estimated how many man-hours they'll take (Work), or how long the Duration of each task is. That's all been your computing power. Now it's time to help Project work its magic to...
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So we've taken a little side-trip into some necessary project management theory and definitions, but it's time to get back to working within Project. Where were we? Oh yeah, we'd made our WBS, determined the scheduling (pick start date or...
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As I delve into Microsoft Project, part of what I'm grappling with is marrying the theories of project management with the way the actual piece of software works, in a practical manner of speaking. Apparently, there are a number of challenges to Microsoft's...
Filed under: Dux Raymond Sy, Tim Cermak, Duration Equation, Cloudshare, Critical Path, CPM, Critical Path Management, Resource Overallocation, Critical Chain Management, Microsoft Project Lite, SharePoint Solutions Showcase
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In last week's post , I elaborated on the fixed duration, fixed unit, and fixed work variables for project tasks. I don't mean to belabor the point, but man, am I having a hard time internalizing this knowledge. Also, while I was talking to Tim...
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I was preparing to dive back into Microsoft Project and get back to budgeting my task resources for my next entry, when I got an IM from Tim Cermak , who is one of my spirit guides on this "reluctant PM" journey. He noted that, in Microsoft...
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So. We've built our WBS and we've determined our project schedule . Now, finally, we're ready to start putting tasks into the View pane of Microsoft Project. Dux recommends, in this crash course screencast , that the first task you put in...
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So in real-time, I'm back from my vacation and I had an awesome time, thanks for asking. But in blog-time, I am still planning the vacation from which I just returned. I have been watching Dux's video about how to use Microsoft Project and kind...
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As this is being published, I am in the midst of enjoying the vacation that, in these blog posts, I am planning. Behold, the power of modern technology! Time travel! With any luck, I have remembered to turn work emails off on my phone and am currently...
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I have been undertaking a diet – well, "lifestyle change" – for a little more than a month now. I did a lot of prep-work for it. I set goals, I bought gear and apps, I researched my methodologies, and I started a blog to keep myself...
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I've been talking to Mike, the founder and President of my company, Innovative-e , about my recent PM dry spell and my nervousness about approaching Microsoft Project. It certainly isn't that I think Microsoft Project is a bad piece of software...
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The confluence of our busy season at work and a distinct lack of inspiration lately has had me floundering for topics to cover. I haven't been doing very project manager-y things at work lately, so the wellspring from which I usually draw topics has...
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I recently had to step away from my test case - this blog project, which is a bit of a work-play thing for me - in order to actually do some real-world work. My company received an RFP from a major organization a week before the proposal was due. Because...
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