Everyday Agile Practices
1 year 37 weeks agoAgile seems like a mystery to many. It has an unfamiliar vocabulary and practices. To outsiders, it feels like an exclusive club. However, when we step back and inspect agile, we see that it follows common, recognizable patterns from our daily lives.
Imagine it is Thursday evening. Your family is planning the upcoming weekend. There is a
Everyday Agile Practices
1 year 37 weeks agoAgile seems like a mystery to many. It has an unfamiliar vocabulary and practices. To outsiders, it feels like an exclusive club. However, when we step back and inspect agile, we see that it follows common, recognizable patterns from our daily lives.
Imagine it is Thursday evening. Your family is planning the upcoming weekend. There is a
Add a milestone on a Task bar in Microsoft Project
1 year 44 weeks agoThis YouTube video demonstrates one way to add a milestone on a Microsoft Project Task bar (same row), e.g., Stage Gate, Go-Live date or a Decision Point.
Note that for this solution to work, the Task Mode must be set to Auto Scheduled.
The Project Charter Lays the Foundation
1 year 45 weeks agoThe project charter is a foundational deliverable created during the project’s initiation phase. The charter documents the project’s purpose, planned direction, and what is initially known.
It may be called a charter, proposal, grant, or request. It may be a formal contract or a less formal document. Regardless of the format, articulating the project’s intent
Quick way to find P6 Activities with Lag
1 year 47 weeks agoFinding relationship lags between activities in Primavera P6 is not as straightforward as one would like it to be. Out of the box, you either manually check each activity’s relationship or create a report detailing lags.
But what if you want to apply a filter to a layout? The workaround in this video shows how to create a filter for displaying only activities with lags or leads in a
2 Ways to Create Level of Effort or Hammock Tasks in Microsoft Project
1 year 50 weeks agoWhile Microsoft Project does not have a straight of the vbox Level of Effort activity type like primavera P6, you can still add Hammock or Level of Effort tasks to your Microsoft Project schedule, using one of 2 workarounds.
The first workaround is the recommended method from Microsoft while the second method is one that is very common in the subsea construction world.
Milestone-Kanban: A Hybrid Project Scheduling Technique
1 year 50 weeks agoThe Milestone-Kanban Schedule (MKS) is a hybrid project scheduling and management technique that combines traditional and agile best practices. The technique is well-suited for simple and complicated projects where the required deliverables are clear, but the time and effort needed to create them are not. It embraces iterative planning, uses milestones to establish a
10 LinkedIn Profiles Project Planners and Schedulers Should Follow
1 year 51 weeks agoThe LinkedIn profiles below will be the first 10 profiles I would recommend to any Project Planner or Scheduler looking for people to follow on LinkedIn, as reading these peoples’ posts, comments and likes will enrich your LinkedIn feed.
I learn from these Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs
Show mmm-yy date format in a Microsoft Project schedule
2 years 1 week agoSometimes during project budget proposal requests, bidders might only want to show indicative dates in their bid schedules to the client and an easy way to do this is by showing only the month and year of a task in a Microsoft Project schedule.
Another scenario for displaying schedule dates in mmm-yy (month & year) format is when the schedule is a summary roll-up (Level 1 or 2) for
Display different date formats in different Views of same Microsoft Project schedule
2 years 1 week agoWhile Primavera P6 users are restricted to same date format for all Layouts of a schedule, Microsoft Project users have the luxury of using different date formats in different Views of the same schedule.
While in one View, you might display dates in “dd-mmm ‘yy” format, in another View of the same schedule, you can display dates in “dd month year”, so different audiences can have
