Author Archives: Nenad Trajkovski

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About Nenad Trajkovski

Location: Zagreb, Croatia Occupation: Project Manager Interests: Project Management and MS PROJECT He was born in Zagreb, Croatia at 1963. After completing his college he started working on projects in different business areas (banking, manufacturing, automotive industry, distribution, oil companies, etc.) developing and implementing ERP systems into different companies. He has got a lot of experience working with people in different business processes and also possesses great knowledge in information technologies and financial services. Today he works as a business consultant, adn Project Manager in PERPETUUM MOBILE d.o.o. Zagreb. He is a regular lecturer for Project Management in MS Innovation Center in Varaždin, Logosoft Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina and SEAVUS GROUP in Skopje Macedonia. He was named the best lecturer of WINDAYS 2008 while his lecture was also voted as the best. In addition, he was in TOP 10 lecturers at the MS SINERGY 2009 and MS VISIA 2009, 2010. Shares first place as the best lecturer of KulenDays 2009 and 2010 and PMI Conference 2009 in Zagreb. He is also a regular lecturer in the MS Community. He is a Certified Accountant and a PMP (Project Manager Professional) and a PMI-RMP (Risk Manager Professional), MCP, MCT, and Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist - Microsoft Project 2010. From 01.01.2012 awarded with MVP (Microsoft Most Valuable Proffesional - Microsoft Project)!

Day rates per resources in Microsoft Project 2016

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Nenad Trajkovski

Hi, I have the question from my Blog reader: “After trying for weeks, I’m trawling the net for Microsoft Project, to find out how to add day rates per resource to the schedule. I can do this in SAP, but … Continue reading →

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Actual duration for manually entered actual work in MS PROJECT 2016

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Nenad Trajkovski

Hi, I have a question from my Blog reader, and I’m going to explain the problem step by step. Of course I will use MS PROJECT 2016! My blog reader’s problem is written with Italic. 1. Let’s create a 5 … Continue reading →

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Effort without specific Tasks in Projects using Microsoft Project 2016!

Posted on August 23, 2017 by Nenad Trajkovski

Hi, often I have a question like this: “How to assign Work to someone when that work is not to be linked with any specific Task?”. I will show you how with MS PROJECT 2016! But first I have to … Continue reading →

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Over allocation not shown in MS PROJECT 2016 with Windows 10–Bug or not?

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Nenad Trajkovski

Hi, My blog reader has a problem. He explained it step by step, and I will answer at it in the same way. Project in certain instances doesn’t flag  over allocated resources.For example, I created a resource John and assigned … Continue reading →

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Multiple relationships between Tasks – using dummy Task in MS PROJECT 2016

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Nenad Trajkovski

Hi, my last post Multiple relationships between Tasks–is this possible?, caused a lot of reactions. all of them are about using dummy Task. Here is one of them: “Insert a dummy milestone to carry part of the logic between the … Continue reading →

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Multiple relationships between Tasks–is this possible?

Posted on July 25, 2017 by Nenad Trajkovski

Hi, I have a great question form one of my Blog readers: “Hi Nenad, thanks for your time and experience. I have a question:I have to tasks 1 and 2.Task 2 starts with 1 day of delay of the start … Continue reading →

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How to show different Baseline in Gantt Chart–MS PROJECT 2016

Posted on July 21, 2017 by Nenad Trajkovski

Hi, I’ve got a question about MS PROJECT 2016: “Dear Nenad,How we can have a new baseline (adding task or resource and delete task or resource) and how viewing that new baseline on the Gantt Chart.” I will show you … Continue reading →

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Task Calendar and Resources – how they fit together in MS PRIJECT 2016?

Posted on July 14, 2017 by Nenad Trajkovski

Hi, I had a lot of question about the Topic I will write about today. Basically it is about relations between Resource (with no Calendar, or, to be more precise, which has Standard Calendar assigned), and specific Task with Specific … Continue reading →

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Scheduled Start and Scheduled Finish fields in MS PROJECT 2016

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Nenad Trajkovski

Hi, today I will explain two fields, not so often used in MS PROJECT 2016: Scheduled Start and Scheduled Finish. First I will create one simple Project with three Tasks, connected like this: As you can see Scheduled Start is … Continue reading →

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How to show duration in different units for the same Task in MS PROJECT 2016

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Nenad Trajkovski

Hi, today I’m going to show you ProjDurConv function which is very useful in MS PROJECT 2016. Here is the Scenario. Suppose that I have a simple Project with one Task, and it’s Duration is 5 days: I want to … Continue reading →

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