MS Project Tip of the Day

"Lots of managers think the PM can make the schedule happen, but in reality, your team owns the schedule and the PM only maintains it.
-- Sally Eberhard, The University of Auckland" provided by MPUG community members

MS Project Tip of the Day

"To add multiple resources, click on the icon with two heads."
- Julius Theisz, MPUG Member- provided by MPUG community members

MS Project Tip of the Day

"Drag the column rather than hiding it and then add it back it in a different location on the Gantt view.
-- Jim Schafers, Schafers Project Consulting" provided by MPUG community members

MS Project Reporting: Schedule Status Indicator

MS Project views can be configured to display graphical status indicators which provide a quick view of certain data. This can allow Executives, Project Managers, and Team Members to easily manage projects on an exception basis, rather than unnecessarily spending large amounts of time analyzing detailed project data.
Schedule Status graphical indicators specify the status of each task in a project schedule with respect to the current timeline.
When the Schedule Status is evaluated for each task, the item is tested based on a set of criteria:
Is the task complete?
Is the task overdue?
Has the task been baselined?
Are we forecasting the task to finish early or late in the future? Refer the following URL for complete article: MS Project Reporting: Schedule Status Indicator

Scheduling Tools

MS Project
Primavera
Nikku / Clarity
Taskjuggler
GanttProject
Artemis – http://www.aisc.com
Change Point
Planview
HP Project and Portfolio Management (HP PPM)
IBM Rational ProjectConsole
iPlan

MS Project - Tip of the Day from MPUG community

"I always wondered why the dates would automatically change when I altered tasks in the WBS. Now I know to checkmark the ""Fixed Durations"" before I start creating a WBS for my projects.
-- Kevin Prachachalerm, University of Arizona" provided by MPUG community

Microsoft Project Tip of the Day

"In Project 2010, you can inactivate a task, which will keep the costs and time consumed to date for that task but won't include that activity in future computations of the schedule or plan. The original schedule will be maintained."
-Sam Hassen, SISG"provided by MPUG community members

Export MS Project tasks with hierarchy to Excel

You may want to take a look at fellow MVP, Jack Dahlgren's "Export hierarchy to Excel" macro at: http://masamiki.com/project/macros.htm or http://masamiki.com/project/export-hierarchy-to-excel.html

MSP 2010 environment should be different to MSP2007

"Don’t run Microsoft Project 2010 in the same environment as Microsoft Project 2007!
-Angela Sims-Ceja, City of Aurora" provided by MPUG community members

Leveraging partial baseline feature...

Change is inevitable. Adding new tasks to a project that has already been approved and baselined can be troublesome—to you and stakeholders. But don’t fret. You don’t need to set a new baseline to take into account the new tasks. Just update the old baseline. To modify the baseline that has already been set, do the following:

1. Select the new tasks that have been added recently to the project. This is important.
2. On the Tools menu, point to Tracking, and click Set Baseline.
3. In the Set baseline list, select the previously set baseline. It will have a date associated with it.
4. Here’s the tricky part. Make sure you select the Selected Tasks option. Otherwise, you’ll reset the baseline for the entire project.
5. Click OK.

Source: MPUG