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For almost any company, whether large or small, project management is necessary for getting—and remaining—organized. You may be one of those people who shudders at the phrase “cloud computing,” but take a moment to consider what it really means. While on-premises project management tools have their place, cloud-based software comes with a plethora of benefits, […]

Over the last few months, we’ve been exploring Time Phased reporting using Excel.  In our last post on this subject, Project Online Time Phased Reporting in Excel part II, we talked about using the Time table in Odata reporting. This handy table gives you several date references for a huge list of dates so we […]

Recently, we were working on a nice set of Project Online timesheet reports for a client.  The fields we needed were in these Odata tables: Tasks TimesheetLines TimesheetLineActualDataSet We knew we were going to need to create some calculated fields, so we decided to use PowerPivot.  We needed to create relationships between these 3 tables, […]

At Integent we are often asked how to turn on Alerts and Reminders in Project Online. Up until last Thursday we have been telling customers the feature is not available in Project Online. Last week many Microsoft Project Online customers noticed new emails notifying them of task updates in their project plans. Alerts and Reminders […]

No Good Portfolio Data Unless Everybody Plays!  Lets put that project portfolio management (PPM) system to work.  The organization has a high level of maturity with PPM tools and understands how utilizing plays a part in the organizations return on investment.

We have been waiting to hear about what will be new in Microsoft Project 2016. Here is a brief overview of what is coming:   Resource Engagements For project managers, securing resources to ensure your project is properly staffed has always been a challenge. With Microsoft Project 2016, it’s now possible to systematically request a […]

As a trainer for Integent, I often stumble across new features by accident. While demonstrating the web-based editing capabilities in Project Online 2013 I realized that I was able to create a Start to Start dependency and even use lead and lag time! Thank you Microsoft!! With the release of Project Server 2010 came web-based […]

We love using Excel with Project Online or Project Server to pull updated live data at any time. Often, our clients want to see this data with some sort of conditional formatting.  Maybe it’s a heatmap throughout a numbers grid, or perhaps text highlighted  in bold or red when a number exceeds a threshold. In […]

Last week while training at a client site I was asked if a Project Manager can change who approves certain tasks in their projects from themselves to another Project Manager. The Project Manager would remain unchanged but certain tasks would be redirected to a different Project Manager’s approval page. My response was of course! Just […]

We’ve recently been assisting a client with a migration from Project Online to full blown Office 365. This project included rebranding the user experience, which led to a need to move the Project materials under a new site. With these sorts of moves, one of the due diligence steps we like to perform is to […]

Integent recommends that you do not activate the new features. For those of you that did not read my previous blog you may have noticed a new yellow banner appearing on your Home page, Resource Center and on Server Settings page. While we are very excited about the new features being released, they are designed […]

The Integent team was surprised to see this yellow banner appearing on the Home page, Resource Center and Server Settings page in some of our customer’s Project Online environments. Having blogged about this a couple of weeks ago we are familiar with the new features available to 2016 but what happens if you activate it […]

One of the biggest challenges for users new to Project 2016 will be learning the ribbon. As a trainer for Integent I am often asked in class where commands are located on the ribbon. I have been suggesting for years to add commands that you are always struggling to locate to the quick access toolbar […]

Project Center is a great tool for presenting a portfolio in a snapshot. Using the right filters and grouping, you can quickly show health across the portfolio, projects grouped by client, capitalized vs. non-capitalized projects with costs. And all of this without manipulating a report. By nature, time is not an element we frequently feature […]

We are excited to announce the availability of Project Server 2016 IT Preview. Microsoft has worked very hard over the past three years to bring the latest and greatest innovations to Project Online and incorporate feedback from customers into Project Server 2016. Project Server 2016 IT Preview provides an initial view of what is to […]

New to Microsoft Project 2016 is the ability to create multiple timelines. At Integent we take snapshots of our timelines to insert into kick off presentations and to share important key dates with our customers through emails and documents. To create a timeline in Project 2016: Click on the View ribbon and check the Timeline […]

Being a visual person, I love the idea of charts, views and graphs. These tools make it easy to tell your story at a glance.  Are our projects in good health? Do we need more resources to accomplish our goals? Is our risk level above our threshold? The primary example of this sort of reporting […]

Many customers want to know, what are the main reasons I should start using Microsoft Project Online. One of the biggest reasons we see that benefits customers is the ability to make data driven decisions. Project Online is outstanding at equipping team members with the information they need to stay informed and make better business […]