Jul23
Still working on documenting the instructions from the Houston MPUG event a couple of weeks ago. It’s amazing how much can be condensed into a one hour presentation. Today’s post is about formatting the Gantt chart, which is a popular topic in many of the sessions I teach. Note that this posting is meant to capture a couple of the elements that many people use in formatting the Gantt, but is...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Thursday, 23 Jul 2009 01:11.
Jul17
Challenge:
A resource on my project is scheduled to work 5 hours on one particular day. MS Project is showing them as being over allocated for that day. Isn’t 8 hours a “normal” workday? Why would the resource be over allocated?
Solution:
Microsoft Project reports over allocations if a resource has to work for more than 60 seconds during any one minute of a project (or projects if you ha...
Posted by Victor Richardson on
Friday, 17 Jul 2009 08:11.
Jul17
I wanted to document this interesting issue. (Well, interesting to me at least). All credit goes to Ijaz Rasheed for identifying and researching this issue.
The Problem
Users attempt to export their My Tasks page to Excel.
Excel throws an error:
Clicking “Yes” only makes things worse…
The Workaround
Instead of using the menu to export to Excel, right click somewhere on the M...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Friday, 17 Jul 2009 07:11.
Jul8
Click here to register for our first EPM Webinar - Maximizing Your Investment in Microsoft Project Professional and Project Server 2007. This session will be held on Wednesday, July 29 at 11:00 a.m. Central.
As a reminder, this is the first in a series of three EPM Webinars we will be conducting in July and August. You can find more info on all three Webinars here.
We hope you'll join us ...
Posted by Peter Elkin on
Wednesday, 8 Jul 2009 04:15.
Jul8
Well, I promised to post this information here at the Houston MPUG meeting last week. Looks like Dale Howard beat me to it today. Rather than recreate the wheel, I provide this link to his excellent blog post: http://www.projectserverhelp.com/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=f884b43f%2D61db%2D4c4e%2D94a3%2D38f21a8efdad&ID=77...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Wednesday, 8 Jul 2009 04:03.
Jul6
Earned Value is certainly one of the most powerful project management tools out there. Microsoft Project and Microsoft Project Server provide a wealth of options for implementing and reporting on Earned Value – and wherever native functionality is lacking, a multitude of third party vendors have stepped in to fill the gap. Earned Value is not incredibly hard to implement, but it does require ...
Posted by Andrew Lavinsky on
Monday, 6 Jul 2009 06:00.