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How to show Baseline Execution Index (BEI) in Microsoft Project

Posted Wed, 2021-05-05 21:45 by Jerome Odeh

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 performing against a set baseline and the video below explains how to set-up a Microsoft Project schedule to display BEI.

Add Decimal Places to Microsoft Project % Complete

Posted Thu, 2021-04-15 07:27 by Jerome Odeh

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.

 

How to Use Traffic Light to Show Microsoft Project Progress Status

Posted Tue, 2021-03-30 07:19 by Jerome Odeh
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 field with graphical indicator to highlight progress of tasks as at current or status date. 

Microsoft Project Baseline Percent (%) with Weighted Summary Roll-up

Posted Sat, 2021-03-20 18:14 by Jerome Odeh

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 shows how to roll-up percent (%) complete to summary tasks based on weighted percent (%) complete of the subtasks.

Show Calendar Days instead of Dates in MS Project Schedule columns

Posted Tue, 2021-03-09 22:48 by Jerome Odeh

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 and finish days, e.g. for a 10-day activity, the schedule will show day 1 in the start column and day 10 in the finish column.

How to highlight a Time period in Gantt chart in Microsoft Project

Posted Fri, 2017-07-07 05:14 by Khuong Do

MS Project do not provide a tool to highlight a time period in Gantt chart.

So how can we do it?

First you create a new calendar. For example "Gantt Shade"

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