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Empowering Your Teams
The virtues of high-performing teams are well documented. They are 50% more productive. They are more creative, and members are 76% more likely to be engaged.
5 Jun 2021 · Alan Zucker · 5 min read
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How to show Baseline Execution Index (BEI) in Microsoft Project
The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) 14-Point Assessment is a set of metrics used to evaluate the quality of a project schedule to ensure that the schedule is fit for purpose. And one of the 14 metrics is the Baseline Execution Index (BEI) which is an indication of how a schedule is perform
5 May 2021 · Jerome Odeh · 1 min read
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Optics: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
The traditional definition of optics is the scientific study of sight or light. An alternative description relates to politics and refers to the perception of a situation. The political origin dates back to the Carter Administration when a Wall Street Journal
3 May 2021 · Alan Zucker · 5 min read
Add Decimal Places to Microsoft Project % Complete
By default, Microsoft Project does not display task % complete numbers with decimal places. In this tutorial, you will learn how to add decimal places to % complete using custom fields.
15 Apr 2021 · Jerome Odeh · 1 min read
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Better Zoom Meetings
In one of my training classes, there is an exercise to conduct a daily stand-up meeting. The meeting should be no longer than 15-minutes and be well structured. In class, we challenge the leader with common distracting and unproductive behaviors. Watch the clip, the results are often hilarious.
1 Apr 2021 · Alan Zucker · 5 min read
How to Use Traffic Light to Show Microsoft Project Progress Status
Sometimes in a Microsoft Project schedule, you might want a quick visual indicator of when a task is behind schedule or in progress and a good way to achieve this is through the use of a traffic light system. This tutorial will show you how to configure your Microsoft Project schedule using a custom
30 Mar 2021 · Jerome Odeh · 1 min read
Microsoft Project Baseline Percent (%) with Weighted Summary Roll-up
By default, Microsoft Project does not have a baseline percent (%) complete field or column like you would find in other scheduling software like Primavera P6.This video outlines steps to follow if you want to display a baseline percent (%) complete column in a Microsoft Project schedule. It also sh
20 Mar 2021 · Jerome Odeh · 1 min read
Show Calendar Days instead of Dates in MS Project Schedule columns
Sometimes during tender or bid submission for a project, the client might not provide a Project start date and bidders would be required to show ordinal dates in the Gantt chart timeline and calendar days in the start and finish dates columns, so that, for each activity, the schedule will show start
9 Mar 2021 · Jerome Odeh · 1 min read
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Project Tools: Which to Choose?
There are many tools to help project teams manage their work, collaborate, and track performance. The number of options is overwhelming—Capterra has published over 900-project management tool reviews.
28 Feb 2021 · Alan Zucker · 5 min read
2 Ways to Show Ordinal Dates instead of Calendar Dates in Primavera P6 Schedule
In this tutorial, I will show you 2 methods of displaying ordinal dates in a Primavera P6 schedule, the first method uses Microsoft Excel and the second uses Global Change facility in P6. Ordinal dates schedules are usually required when a project does not have a defined calendar start date.
24 Feb 2021 · Jerome Odeh · 7 min read