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• Project and Portfolio Management Partner of the Year awards announced

  21 May 2013

  The 2013 Microsoft Partner of the Year award winners were announced for all categories across Microsoft Partner competencies, products and regions. We recognize the best of the best Microsoft Project partners with the prestigious Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Partner of the Year Award . This...
• Microsoft Project Conference 2012 Session Recordings Are Live!

  16 May 2012

  Today we're excited to share all session recordings from Project Conference 2012 in Phoenix, Arizona with the greater Project community. Over 1250 people from 44 countries made the trip--75% for the very first time. The week featured 94 handpicked sessions with 20 delivered by customers eager to share...
• Actual Work Best Practices Documentation Now Available

  15 Dec 2011

  One of the most important aspects of any Project Server implementation is the ability to accurately record and report on actual work values when they are submitted by resources. The desire to ensure that the integrity of actual work, or “actuals”, is maintained within Project Server is one...
• Impress the family: Make Thanksgiving Day a success with Project 2010

  18 Nov 2011

  Brian Kennemer over at Deltabahn , a Microsoft Partner specializing in Project Server deployment consulting, recently updated his Thanksgiving dinner project plan and we wanted to share it with you all. You can download the .mpp file here . This is just a guide, but a great example of how flexible the...
• Microsoft Project Conference 2012 Call for Content Now Open

  23 Aug 2011

  Microsoft Project Conference 2012 is the premiere Microsoft-led event to share Project and Portfolio Management best practices and connect with your peers from around the globe. Project Conference will be held in Phoenix, Arizona on March 19 - 22, 2012. Do you have best practices you would like to share...
• Tips and Tricks: Work offline from Project Server

  14 Jul 2010

  There are a number of reasons why you might want to work offline from Project Server. One, you might want to work on a project while flying across the country (but don’t take your eyes off the instrument panel). Two, the network you are using goes down unexpectedly while you’re are in the...
• Wrangling with the Timeline

  26 Jun 2010

  The new Timeline in Project 2010 has become an very popular way to present Project information quickly and attractively. Problem is, you can get a little carried away putting all your tasks on the Timeline, and then have trouble selecting only a few tasks to copy into another program, like PowerPoint...
• Tips and Tricks: Out with the old menus and in with the new ribbon

  11 Jun 2010

  Can’t find your favorite Project 2007 menu commands on the new ribbon for Project 2010? Now you have a clever tool that maps the old menus with the new look. Click here , and then click the Project Guide. An interactive guide will start that displays Project 2007. Choose a command on any of the...
• Tips and Tricks: Deleting summary tasks

  27 Apr 2010

  One nice thing about summary tasks is that changes to them get reflected (or “rolled down”) to their subtasks. This is fine if you want to move summary tasks around, because all the subtasks move with them. But if you want to delete a summary task, then all the subtasks (and any subtasks...
• Tips and Tricks: See work at a glance with the Calendar View

  25 Feb 2010

  Whether chiseled onto ancient stone walls, or hung from your kitchen wall, calendars are often the preferred way to view the progress of events, tasks, and even entire projects. So, too, with the Calendar view in Project 2007 and Project 2010. If you need project information presented in an attractive...
• Tips and Tricks: Changing Constraints Back to Normal

  13 Jan 2010

  Now you’ve done it. You created a number of tasks in Project 2007 using start dates that you entered manually. Or maybe someone handed you a schedule with many “Must Start On” constraints applied to tasks. Unless you have a good reason to use non-default constraints or manually entered...
• Buffer, downtime, and productivity

  29 May 2009

  Maybe it’s because I’ve been swamped this week while the sun’s been shining here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, but I’ve been doing some thinking about buffer, downtime, and productivity. I don’t think it’s a secret that projects have a tendency to come in late...
• Social networking as a tool for managing projects?

  15 May 2009

  So here’s how my day typically goes. Wake up, get the kid breakfast, check email, check Facebook, eat some cereal, check Twitter, do some work, check Twitter again, do some more work, check Facebook, back to work…you get the point. Some people might look at this pattern and say, “Hey...
• EPM 2007 Timesheets with Project Actual Remaining Work

  17 Dec 2008

  Hello - Dave Ducolon here. I have blogged here before and am back to talk to you about the ability to capture actual remaining work in a timesheet and have that recorded in the project task to which you are assigned. This was a very popular user request and we were able to offer this functionality to...
• VIDEO: Review of Project 2007 Task Settings and Display Administrative Options

  23 Sep 2008

  This is the beginning of a video series targeted to Project Server Administrators. These are being done by the Program Managers who own the features and are designed to give you some insight into the what and why of the administrative options. Consequently, these are NOT professionally produced. Note...
• Project Server TechNet - New Column "From the Trenches"

  11 Jun 2008

  Deployment issues? We have a new series on TechNet that may be able to help you out. We will have a new column every other month providing experiences and lessons learned from a real world deployment. The link is http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/projectserver/default.aspx The series is featured...
• RACI charts and Project

  30 May 2008

  RACI charts are a convenient tool in the initial planning process for a project, helping to identify the parties that are Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed (RACI) throughout the project. To fill out a RACI chart, first you need to determine the functions, decisions, and/or activities...
• New to Project? Try the Project Management Quick Reference Guide

  18 Jan 2008

  It can sometimes be a challenge for new users to find their way through Microsoft Project on their way to becoming project managers. The Project team has just produced another Help product that will help you understand Microsoft Project- The Project Management Quick Reference Guide . This template can...
• Group By, It's Great!

  30 Nov 2007

  We have something called SQM data that tells us how many clicks each feature in Project gets and in my opinion Group By is one of the most underused features in Project. It only gets .1% of all clicks and is one of the most powerful features in Project (think you know the top 5 features, check the end...
• Using a Consolidated Project for What-If Analysis

  31 Jul 2007

  This post is based on a technique presented in an Ed Hanna e-mail and is augmented with items that we are using internally to manage our own efforts. This technique can work, to a certain extent, in Project Server 2003 and will definitely work in Project Server 2007. There are times where you need to...