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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)!

Adjusting Assignments in the Team Planner View

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Nenad Trajkovski

Hi, I will show you how you can easily adjust assignments and reschedule your tasks in the project. First I will add four tasks to my project and they will be in manually scheduled mode, and I will not schedule … Continue reading →

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Resolving over allocation in MS PROJECT 2010

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Nenad Trajkovski

Hi, I have received request for help from one reader of my blog. The request is: “Hi,I’m trying to create a new schedule for 1 person. I’d like to find a way to use automatic scheduling that will fill the … Continue reading →

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Task Relationships

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Nenad Trajkovski

There are four different task dependencies (relationships): Finish to Start (FS): The finish date of predecessor task determines the start date of the successor task Start to Start (SS): The start date of the predecessor task determines the start date … Continue reading →

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Customizing the Ribbon in MS PROJECT 2010–Part II

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Nenad Trajkovski

In this Blog I will make my own Tab, Groups and Commands. I will go to Backstage view: and then:   I will add a brand new Tab and I will call it “My Custom Tab” Now I have a … Continue reading →

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Customizing the Ribbon in MS PROJECT 2010

Posted on May 5, 2011 by Nenad Trajkovski

In this blog I will write about customizing the Ribbon. Let me start with an example. If you want to define your resources on a project you can do it on the View Tab: I will prefer that everything about … Continue reading →

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How to split tasks in MS PROJECT 2010

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Nenad Trajkovski

Hi, Suppose that you have a project with 5 tasks as is shown in the picture: Task 3 has a 3-day duration, and will start on Monday, 25.04.2011 and finish on Wednesday, 27.04.2011. What if your task can be done … Continue reading →

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Inactiving tasks

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Nenad Trajkovski

A great new feature in MS PROJECT 2010 is Inactive task command. In previous versions if you had a task which you decided not to do (because you didn’t have resources, or simply you just didn’t need it) you had … Continue reading →

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Assigning and removing resource to tasks–BUG

Posted on April 16, 2011 by Nenad Trajkovski

  In this blog I will show you a bug that I found when removing resource from the task First, I will add two resources to the Project: Then I will add two tasks to the Project with same duration … Continue reading →

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Scheduling problems in MS PROJECT 2010

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Nenad Trajkovski

One of the biggest problems in MS Project is to understand how to manage the time. A friend of mine told me that he is not using MS PROJECT because each time he would change the calendar or working time, … Continue reading →

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Constraints and deadline in MS PROJECT

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Nenad Trajkovski

In this post I will write about constraints There are three types of constraints: Flexible constraints. This is a default type of constraint in MS PROJECT. It means that a task can start As Soon As Possible Semi-flexible constraints. A … Continue reading →

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