![]() Earned ValueĪ template, designed by Microsoft, to teach you how to track project progress by using Earned Value management. I really wanted to check out how this would look, would a special window open within Project? Or would it just be a YouTube link? I bet it would be the last, I have not heard any functionality to open video files directly within MS Project (because that would just be silly). I found one mayor issue with the template, the “Watch this demo” video doesn’t work. Here is a screenshot that shows the Resource sheet page of the template, really nice: Some companies tend to use baselines rather than Budget resources for that reason alone. Something that needs to be mentioned: Budget resources ONLY work on the project summary task! No other task will hold a budget resource. With that column added to the view you can see what happens to the complete schedule when you are successfully implementing budgets and work and costs correctly. The third chapter might need some extra explanation: We are missing the “Cost column”. There are 5 neat chapters within the template, navigating back to the main page is done by clicking Report –> Recent –> Create a budget. With this template you will feel yourself becoming an artist! Creating and using the Budget resources is something of an art form. Remember, empty rows are not at all empty! There is data stored in the row, this holds true with the older versions of the tool more then with 2013, but I would still advise against it.Īnother nice Microsoft template that focusses on a specific functionality within Microsoft Project. Too bad it has an empty row on ID103 and therefore 2 empty rows in the schedule. A relatively simple project template, but good for a quick overview of dependencies, phases, resource utilization and over allocation (19, 21 and others). I have not had an opportunity to run a Agile project from start to finish with a client yet, so I hope people reading this blog can comment on the usefulness of this template when planning Agile.Ĭreated by Microsoft. Here is the Wikipedia page if you want to read up. The Agile scheduling method is different from the traditional waterfall schedule, and currently all the hype around the Project Management world. Also a new template that uses the 2013 features very nicely. Agile Project ManagementĬreated by Microsoft. ![]() Also, I have not read the PMBOK, so maybe there are some theoretical things I might be missing. But hey, the focus is more on the reporting and text. The knowledge area’s page has all the 10 areas with clickable buttons that redirect you to a schedule part that is especially created for that area.Īpart from a manually scheduled summary task on ID 55, 71 and 74 I could not find anything immediately wrong with the schedule. The great feature that they use in the template is actually a reporting page, recreated to be a source of information about PMBOK best practices, including some links to websites and even a nifty description where MS Project comes into play when you are managing a project (The Project Management tap). As well as creating a great template to use when you are scheduling according to the PMBOK. This is a sweet template that uses new 2013 features very nicely. Some awesome templates I found PMBOK compliant Project ManagementĬreated by Sensei Project Management (Microsoft partner of the year 2014, and authors of multiple books I reviewed). I did a search for “Project” and got this hit: Go to backstage, hit new, and view the already available templates there, or do a search. How do we view the templates? I will use Microsoft Project Professional 2013. end of supplements- Getting to the templates Please feel free to download any of the files that are on The Project Corner OneDrive. I also found out that people were searching for MS Project Budget templates, so I created a post about this. There seems to be an issue with the templates where some people are unable to access them. Great! But, have you ever taken a look at what is there? Me neither, so let’s take a look together.Įrik here, I took a close look at all the comments and decided to upload the 5 templates I discussed in this article to the Project Corner OneDrive. There are templates for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and even Microsoft Project. ![]() Microsoft offers a number of standard templates trough their service that can be reached via the application. This post has been on my mind for quite some time now, ever since I wrote the 80-20 blogpost. Amazing, thank you all for reading the blog. I just reached 11K views since I started this blog in Q3 2013.
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