Microsoft Project, unlike Primavera P6, allows users to have different date formats for different Views of the same schedule.

If you ever want to exclude the day portion of a date in a Primavera P6 schedule so that you are left with only the month & year portions of a date, then this tutorial is for you.

Here is a quick tip on my preferred method for assigning actual start & finish dates to tasks in Microsoft Project, i.e. through the Task Details Form

Learn how to use Expenses for lumpsum cost in Primavera P6 to generate data for use in Excel to plot progress s-curves when you cannot use resources to generate the data.

This tutorial is for Primavera P6 users who also need to manage a Microsoft Project schedule and would like to display an Activity ID column with unique alphanumeric ids in Microsoft Project.

Use custom fields to add start date and/or finish date week number columns, e.g. a column to show date in the format “2021 Week 10”, in a Microsoft project schedule

When all subtasks in Microsoft Project are milestones, the summary task percent complete is always 0% unless all the subtasks are 100%. The workaround in this tutorial will display a % complete based on number of milestones completed.

What are the key points to consider when creating a construction project schedule? Do you know how to perform a Monte Carlo analysis on your project schedule? These are addressed in our latest roundup of blog posts from other sites.

Baseline Execution Index (BEI) is one of the metrics in the DCMA 14-Point Assessment for project schedules and in this post, we are going to look at how to calculate and display BEI in a Microsoft Project schedule.

By default, Microsoft Project does not display task % complete numbers with decimal places. In this tutorial, you will learn how to add decimal places to % complete using custom fields.

Dashboards are important when it comes to summarising data for quick insights therefore your choice of visualisations becomes key in how effective your dashboards are.

Do you have an opinion on the state of CPM project schedules? Do you know why false critical paths are abound in schedules?

Do you know that Microsoft Project does not display Critical Path? Do you want to know more about Critical Path myth in Microsoft Project?

Learn how to use Custom Fields to display traffic light (RAG Status) for progress status of tasks in a Microsoft Project schedule.

The workaround in this tutorial is for Primavera P6 Users looking for ways to display a baseline % complete column in Microsoft Project. This workaround also shows how to roll-up summary tasks % complete.

Good news for Planners and Scheduler who depend on Excel for reporting as the Conditional Formatting gets a makeover with resizable dialog box and ability to duplicate rules.

Learn how to use Custom Fields to replicate Primavera P6 Activity Codes to enable grouping and/or filtering of tasks in Microsoft Project.

This week’s review of blogsphere brings you posts about risk analysis, importance of keeping records when it comes to EOT and the advantages of LD clauses. If you like pie-charts, then you might want to read why they are considered ugly.