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Introducing Teams Apps for Project and Microsoft Roadmaps <English Tea> There have recently been a couple of apps introduced into Teams that consolidate the Microsoft...

03 November, 2020

Microsoft's Solution Accelerator for Project <Frothy coffee> One of the major announcements at Ignite was a solution Accelerator for the new Project, aka, Project for the...

07 October, 2020

Planner Template on GitHub <Ice Cream> Microsoft are retiring content on TechNet, and so I've taken this opportunity to slightly modify the Planner Power BI...

30 April, 2020

Planner Priority field <Tea> This is just a quick blog post to say that Planner now includes a priority field for each task.   The priority...

10 September, 2019

Auto Calculate is switched off by mistake (CTRL-F9) Recently one of my customers was having an issue with Project not "behaving"correctly.  As I was...

05 March, 2019

Changing the Permissions Mode in Project Online Introduction This is really the briefest of blogs to let you know of a UI change away from...

13 November, 2018

Managing Sprints and Agile in Project Introduction This is the second in a two part series covering the Agile capabilities of Microsoft Project. In the...

17 October, 2018

<Tuborg> Using Kanban Boards in Microsoft Project Introduction There has been a lot written over the last year regarding Microsoft’s foray into the world of Agile...

12 September, 2018

<G&T> Modifying the Menus in Project Over the years I have run hundreds of training courses and one of the issues I often hear from...

04 July, 2018

<soup> Creating a Date Table in Power Query Simply because this asked for recently, here's some M-code that you can paste into Power Query to...

16 May, 2018

<tea> Microsoft Project has long been considered as a tool that can only be used with structured , rigid tasks.  Typically this...

27 October, 2017

<Nothing more interesting than tea…> I’m really pleased to announce that I’m presenting at the Power BI World Tour at the London event on...

12 July, 2017

<East London Brewery Jamboree> If like me, you’re based in the UK and you deal with organisations based in Scandinavia  (and others of course)...

06 July, 2017

Happy to note I’ve been re-awarded as an MVP for Microsoft Project again, for the 9th year running :) ...

05 July, 2017

Over the last year or so Power BI has made a real charge to become THE reporting tool for many applications, including of...

29 September, 2016

<baileys> Typically I don’t blog about service packs, feature packs, CUs, PUs and anything else release related, however, this time I’m making an exception...

08 June, 2016

#ProjectOnline #ProjectServer #PowerBI #PowerQuery #BI #Office365 #Excel #PPM <tea> Just a quick plug for an article I recently wrote for the TechNet UK blog –...

06 January, 2016

<Early morning coffee> When it comes to Risks and Issues, I find that many of my customers wish to transfer their existing Risks and...

22 July, 2015

The Project MVP community is hosting the 1st ever Project Virtual Conference.  Running for 24 hours on the 22nd October, it encompasses the...

23 June, 2015

<homebrew, tea, wine, coffee and several other beverages – this blog was written over several days!> I’m currently helping manage a multiyear schedule and...

08 April, 2015

<merlot> I came across an issue the other day whilst dabbling in a demo project update.  The issue was that I couldn’t set the...

02 April, 2015

<Ožujsko> So perhaps the title of this blog is a little over the top, but I had a customer recently who needed help when...

01 December, 2014

<A beer in London - £4.30!> Most problems (or opportunities of course) arise from customer queries; really, if it wasn’t for you guys keeping...

09 March, 2014

When I review the statistics on my blog, one of the most popular ones is Exporting tasks into Outlook - http://applepark.co.uk/exporting-tasks-from-project-into-your-outlook-calendar/.  I’m not...

17 July, 2013

<tea> In case you missed the announcements, TechED Europe is happing in Madrid from the 25-28th June.  Though I’m not speaking this year, I...

10 June, 2013

<Cafe creme> Cost resources are a very useful feature of Project (and also therefore of Project Server), but there is at least one rule...

10 January, 2013

<ipa> The majority of projects I’m involved in concentrate more on people and process than anything else (some customers really want to think “tools,...

07 May, 2012

<Earl Grey> Project Server 2010 allows for the option of auto-approving task status updates, and since SP1, this has become even more useful as...

21 January, 2012

<Cool cold water> I seem to spend quite a bit of time, during training courses, explaining (in some depth) how Project Server security works. ...

12 May, 2011

<Youngs bitter> A customer on a recent training course asked if how he could create a view that didn’t display dates, but rather showed...

27 January, 2011

<coffee> Apologies for those who've read my blogs before, but as I've created a new web site I wanted to make sure all my...

04 October, 2010

<Pinot Grigio – it’s been a long day!> As previously blogged, I was recently invited to speak on Project 2010 at the Microsoft UK...

04 October, 2010

<cup of tea> MS UK recently held a week long series of events here in the UK called techdays - http://www.microsoft.com/uk/techdays/.  I was given...

04 October, 2010

<hot water and lemon> I’ve been troubleshooting an existing PS2007 implementation recently (obviously not one that I set up!), and the customer was having...

04 October, 2010
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