Posts from:Microsoft Project
How do I know???? Project Professional Versions and Consistency
BY: Collin Quiring The February Cumulative Update was recently released for Project Professional 2010. As with most updates, this brings a few questions to mind. How do I know which version, or build, of Project Professional 2010 is on my computer? How... (more...)
Selecting The Team and Project Manager
There are a lot of articles, blogs and even some books about how Project Manager’s should be selected. Also, stories abound about how people find themselves in the role of Project Manager because “they were there” or by some other fortunate series... (more...)
Random Thoughts – New Book, Certifications, Force Check-ins and Agile
BY: Collin Quiring I always wonder why a blog goes silent. While it takes great discipline and scheduling to update a blog on a regular basis, there are plenty of folks that do it. For a long time I was able to do it as well. However, for a number... (more...)
PMI Membership and PMP Certification – by the Numbers
By: Collin Quiring Ever since I started looking at obtaining a certification as a Project Management Professional I was interested in knowing how many people had the certification already. I have blogged about certifications in previous posts so I... (more...)
Project Server 2010 – Departments
BY: Collin Quiring First things first – I want to give credit to Microsoft for having some great documentation! I have been working with Microsoft Project for many years and started becoming very involved with the tool starting with the 2000 release.... (more...)
Let Me Count The Ways…
BY: Tanya Foster Have you ever noticed that there is more than one way to do the same thing in Microsoft Project? I didn’t specify a version, because I’ve noticed it in multiple versions of Microsoft Project. That’s one thing I love about Project…... (more...)
Getting the Truth
BY: Bruce Lofland All tasks are being completed when planned and within budget. There are no issues, risks have all been mitigated, and the project team members love each other and work perfectly together. How would you like to give that status... (more...)
Microsoft Project 2010 and Mythbusters
By: Collin Quiring Ok, so maybe it wasn’t Microsoft Project Professional or Project Server that MythBusters specifically took on, but they did take on the “MegaWoosh” that became a Viral Video last year. (Tanya Foster wrote about it on our blog... (more...)
Just the Facts – Then React
By: Collin Quiring As a Project Manager, I tend to instinctively relate most events in life back to that profession. I have been thinking about the situation with Shirley Sherrod (Georgia’s Agriculture Department Director). This is an ongoing story... (more...)
Quick Summary – Value of Project Management and Microsoft Project
Clients often ask us if there is an easy-to-use and easy-to-understand method of trying to explain and justify the use of Project Management and the use of Microsoft Project. We have some information about that on other blog entries and on some of our... (more...)