Category Archives: PMI

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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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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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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LEAD, LAG, ELAPSED TIME AND START TIME IN SCHEDULING

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Nenad Trajkovski

This blog will be a short one. I am going to describe lead, lag, elapsed time, and start time in scheduling. Lag is waiting time. For example, if you are pouring the concrete you have to wait 2 days before … Continue reading →

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Scheduling problems in MS PROJECT 2010 – Part 2.

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Nenad Trajkovski

Today I will write about scheduling problems when you put the start and the end date for tasks into MS PROJECT. I WILL NOT write about constraints and limitation with this method (for example about flexible and hard constraints and … Continue reading →

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