Microsoft Project Tips and Tricks #3

Over the last two blog posts, we published the first and second instalments in a series of high-impact Microsoft Project tips and tricks that we delivered in conjunction with Microsoft NZ earlier this year.  We've received really positive feedback as it appears that we cover many pain points that users experience in their day-to-day use of the tool.

As promised, we're now posting the third and final installment.  Following on from sets 1 and 2, this 3rd set of tips and tricks looks to close the loop; helping you to optimise, baseline, track and replan your projects and also get an understanding of how to manage programmes of projects that share common resource pools.

Download Part 3 as a PDF file

In these tips and tricks, we'll cover the following topics:

• Viewing, analysing and reporting (continued from part 2)

• Using visual reports

• Optimising people and plans 

• Resource conflicts: Finding where, how and why 

• What levelling can and can't do

• Progressing and replanning

• Tracking actuals and rescheduling work
  
• Finding slippages using multiple baselines

• Multiple project environments

• Share respurces across projects with Resource Pools 

• Link tasks between projects - with care 

Notes for Project Mentor users

Within the handout, you'll see links to various Lessons and References.  Just lookup a lesson or reference for step-by-step instructions or detailed explanations about each of the tips and tricks listed.

Posted by: Andy Jessop