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Duration, Units, Work and Schedule in MS PROJECT 2013. How are they linked, and some tips and tricks!

Hi, this is my first Post in this year and it will be a quite long. Again, one of my Blog readers ha a problem, and this problem is about scheduling. Here it is: “Dear Nenad,Glad to find your site … Continue reading

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Crashing and Fast Tracking in MS PROJECT 2013

Hi, in this Post I will introduce two Terms: Crashing and Fat Tracking. When your Schedule is too long, and you want to short it, you will can add additional Resources to Tasks (and this is called Crashing), or you … Continue reading

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Slack and Microsoft Project 2013

Hi, again my Blog reader has a problem: “Hi,I have a question about Slack, I am preparing a construction schedule for my small project and using M.S.P. the problem I have is, when I active the slack on the schedule, … Continue reading

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Rescheduling Project or Tasks, and Constraints in MS PROJECT 2013

Hi, my Blog reader ha a question: “Dear Nenad, After  we update the  progress (% Complete) on various tasks on a baselined project, I understand we need to re-schedule  the uncompleted work to start after the status date. This is … Continue reading

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How to Move Project when Project has Manually Scheduled Tasks and/or Constraints in MS PROJECT 2013

Hi, I’ll how you how to move Project when it has Manually Scheduled Tasks or Constraints in MS PROJECT 2013 First I will make a simple Project with no manually Scheduled Tasks or Constraints. Now suppose that your plan is … Continue reading

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Status date in “what if” scenario, or how to make our Projects actual data up to date in MS PROJECT 2013

Hi, my Blog reader has a “problem”: “Nenad, thank you for replay! Ok, my be I wasn’t clear with my question… Let me explain my self one more time. Perhaps I’m working on some project, it has 28 task with … Continue reading

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How to update Baseline and Save actual data in MS PROJECT 2013?

Hi, I have a question from my Blog reader: “Hi, How can I update Baseline with new Tasks if Project has Tasks with Actual data, e.g I don’t want to loose those actual data, nor I want to change Baseline … Continue reading

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Baseline and Overtime work in MS PROJECT 2013

Hi, as usual I have a question from one of my Blog Readers: “Dear Sir, Can you help me to solve one issue in MS Project? After finishing base line work hours, values entered to actual over time not adding … Continue reading

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Actuals and Variances with Material Resources in MS PROJECT 2013! – Part 2

Hi, In my previous Post I wrote: “Dear Nenad, I have a doubt in MS Project updation and tracking of material resources. For example, i have budgeted quantity of cement as 100bags but in actual site construction the quantity consumed … Continue reading

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Task are not Scheduled as expected in MS PROJECT 2013

My Blog reader has a problem: “Hi Nenad. I am creating a simple Project with four Tasks. Task 1 is predecessor for Task 2, etc. I do not have a right Schedule, and they all start at the same date. … Continue reading

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