Never Underestimate the Importance of Estimates in Your Project Plan
When estimating tasks, paint as accurate a picture as possible of when a task will realistically be completed.
Category: The Bottom-Line PM: A Realist’s Guide to Using SharePoint and Microsoft Project for Project Management
A casual Project Manager shares her trials and triumphs while learning to use SharePoint and Microsoft Project for project management.
Reconciling the Way Microsoft Project Actually Works with the Theories of Project Management
Your project can be your vacation, a yard sale you’d like to have to clear out your garage or any relatively simple project.
The Pregnancy Conundrum, or How Many Variables Can Be Fixed in a Project?
I elaborated on the fixed duration, fixed unit, and fixed work variables for project tasks. What are fixed-duration tasks?
Also, Dude, ‘Fixed Resources’ is Not the Preferred Nomenclature … ‘Fixed Units,’ Please
In Microsoft Project, you don’t have “fixed resources,” as I wrote in my last entry. You have “fixed units.”
Estimating, Not Guesstimating Using Fixed Work, Duration, and Resources
Fixed task work, resources, and duration are likely to change as you alter the ratios. For each task, you can only have one fixed thing.
Finally … Actually Working in Microsoft Project 2010
When you’re plugging in the dates for your project into Microsoft Project, you can only schedule from the start date OR from the finish date.
