What is the Microsoft Project status date? The status date in Microsoft Project is similar to the closing date on your checking account monthly statement. Your checking account monthly statement includes all transactions that took place up to and including the statement closing date. Similarly when your progress a schedule in Microsoft Project you include […]
Calendars and Total Float Values
When a project schedule has multiple activity calendars in use, the Total Float values for a string of activities on the same driven network path may be different. This may confuse someone reviewing the pdf of a schedule, even if the relationship lines are displayed. This can also occur when multiple calendars are used on […]
Multiple Critical Paths in Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project has a great feature that allows you to display a critical path for each independent network of tasks within a project. This comes in handy when you want to display a schedule Contract Completion Date (CCD) milestone. Some scheduling guidelines require a separate milestone for the CCD. Schedulers in Microsoft Project can define […]
How to Display Outline Numbers in Microsoft Project
How do you display outline numbers for each summary task and detail task in your Microsoft Project schedule. Let’s take a look at how this can be done. Microsoft Project generates an outline number for each summary task and detail task. This may come in handy when you are communicating with stakeholders about specific tasks […]
Using Outline Codes in Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project provides custom outline codes to support organizing project data. Microsoft Project outline codes has up to ten fields set aside them. You may apply these custom outline codes to activities or resources. These outline codes are very helpful for grouping and sorting project related data. This article demonstrates how to create and assign […]
How to Define Material Resources In Microsoft Project
It is feasible to define work, cost, and material resources in Microsoft Project. Let’s look at the definition of material resources first. What makes the material resource definition interesting is the requirement to include a unit of measure in addition to a standard rate. This unit definition may be any unit of measure specified by […]
Deleting Tasks in Microsoft Project and How to Delete a Relationship
There is more than one way to delete a task in Microsoft Project. Here we explore a few different approaches that folks use. Relationships often change throughout the planning stages of a project. And it may be just as helpful to know how to delete a relationship, as it is to create one. Yes, there […]
Microsoft Project Lag Filter
How to use the Microsoft Project lag filter. Recently one of our readers asked whether it is possible to create a filter in Microsoft Project to capture all tasks that have lag. Lag is waiting time between a predecessor task and a successor task. Tasks in Microsoft Project may have either a positive lag or […]
Microsoft Project Resource Delay
Microsoft Project Resource Delay What can you do when you have multiple resources working on a task, but some of these resources have a delayed start? Well, Microsoft Project supports an assignment delay for resources in these situations. In your scheduling scenario you have several resources working on a task, and some of these resources […]
Displaying The Task Path In Microsoft Project
Using Microsoft Project’s Gantt charts have a way of quickly becoming cluttered with numerous tasks and joining relationships. In these situations you may want a way to inspect a respective task path through the network. In analyzing a schedule it is common to inspect all tasks coming before a particular task, the predecessors, and all […]