Project Solution Accelerator

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 Web (P4W). The accelerator is being developed by Microsoft and will include items such as project requests, issues, risks, programmes, and will create some additional functionality for P4W to bring […]
A whole host of Power BI content – Power BI Lunch and Learn and the Manchester Power BI user group

Power BI Lunch and Learn and the Manchester Power BI User Group <Frothy coffee> Over the last four years I’ve spent a lot of time working in both Power BI and using the similar tools in Excel (for those of you who didn’t know Power BI was “born” in Excel, or at least as an […]
Planner Tasks Power BI Template on GitHub

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 template, and move it over to GitHub. At the same time I recorded a video of how to use the template file – I didn’t cover the whole of template […]
Updated Planner Tasks Power BI Template

Planner Priority field #2 <Tea> It’s great when Microsoft copy one of your ideas 🙂 Back in Sept 2019 I updated my Planner Template to include the Priority field. Microsoft have now included the Priority field in their own charts as blogged here by the product team. Here’s the Priority visual spotlighted in my Power […]
Planner Tasks now have a Priority field

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 can be Urgent, Important, Medium (default) or Low. Setting of the priority is easy, but what’s really nice is the ability to filter and group by priority as displayed in […]
PowerBI Template for Exported Planner Plans

Power BI Template for Planner Plans <Update 10th September 2019> The Power BI template now supports the Priority field, and an additional two tabs have been created, one to display the tasks by priority, and another with a buttons to switch easily between the status or priority views. As well as links to the template […]