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Microsoft Project and Calendars Project calendars allow for the organization of tasks and resources within a project timeline. MS Project uses the Standard default calendar to plan tasks between 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. with one-hour lunch breaks, 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week and 20 days a month. However, a different calendar […]

Microsoft Project filters work on Task and Resource views by filtering out rows based on specified criteria. The Microsoft Project views will therefore display only the data in which you're interested. Using a filter with Microsoft Project does not change any of the data in the MS Project schedule. It merely changes what information from […]

Let's talk about the straight-forward definition of project intake to get us started. If you perform a search online for project intake you will get quite a few answers. Like it being the first step in a process whereby a company collects information about a potential project used to assess whether to execute the project. […]

Project Web App/Microsoft Project Online may be set such that users receive email notifications, helping people stay on top of what's going on in projects they are involved with. When notifications and reminders are enabled, users can decide which specific notifications they would like to receive from Project Web App. Project Managers Project Managers may […]

The Microsoft Project Online Desktop client is included with your Project Online Professional or Project Online Premium license. Remember, It's the MS Project desktop client that is primarily used by Project Managers to create and update project schedules. And while you can use it as a standalone client, it may also be used to connect […]

Microsoft Project is a powerful project management software that can help you manage projects of any size.

Learn How To Create different types of Milestones using Microsoft Project in this short Training video. Including an external milestone.

Microsoft Project is without a doubt one of the most popular project management tools ever developed. This project management software by Microsoft is designed to provide project managers the ability to do project planning, build schedules, assign various types of resources to tasks (assignments) track progress, and much more.

Building a project schedule in Microsoft Project, although daunting, is rather simple once you understand this project management software. In order to ensure MS Project behaves the way you want it to, it is important to set some options prior to creating your project plan.

Most often if a Project is very large and complex using subprojects may help simplify management. Projects that contain hundreds of tasks are easier to manager when broken into subprojects and linked via intra-project dependencies.

Advanced options in Microsoft Project can often add another level of customization project managers add to their toolbox to help manage projects. Custom fields, for instance, may be used to display colored graphical indicators to quickly communicate the status of the status of tasks in the project with regard to cost and other metrics.

In this Microsoft Project Training session we cover the various ways in which Microsoft Project Professional provides pre-installed graphical reports with additional formatting capabilities to make sharing project data with your team easier.

By tracking project performance and comparing it with the original plan (baseline), you can answer questions such as: Are resources spending more or less time than planned to complete tasks work?
Are higher-than-anticipated task costs driving up the overall cost of the project?

In this Microsoft Project Training session we cover the various ways in which resources may be assigned to tasks in Microsoft Project in the assignment planning process.

In this segment of our Microsoft Project Training webinar series Amanda Kuhlman instructs users on building a task with with Microsoft Project. In this session we cover entering tasks, entering Work and Duration, Setting Task Durations and Setting Constraints and Deadlines. Please join us!

Watch this Microsoft Project Training video on Resource Planning with Microsoft Project which introduces users to the Resource Pool and assigning resources to tasks.

In this third segment of our Microsoft Project Training webinar series Amanda will instruct users on the Topic Task Planning Part 2 with Microsoft Project. In this webinar we move on to understand the use of lags and leads, and how they make for a flexible project schedule when the opportunity to do so is available. We also review constraints and deadlines, and which constraints to avoid and how deadlines are a great alternative.
Next we move on to Task Types, which is typically one of the more complex aspect of Microsoft Project and therefore least understand.

In this first segment of our Microsoft Project Essentials webinar series Amanda will instruct users on the Topics Getting Started with Microsoft Project and Defining the Project. Getting Started with Microsoft Project
Learn about the MS Project interface, navigation elements, ribbons and other elements of the Project Interface as the Start Screen, Project Screen, and Backstage view are covered via lecture