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...
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...
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 ...
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. ...
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...
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...
<Tetley Tea> Project Online Work and Capacity Graphs in Power BI - solution starter A lot of my work now revolves around producing Power BI reports using the Project Online oData feed (you can find my reporting pack for Project Online here) , and of course one...
<flat white> Creating Resource Work and Capacity Graphs in #MSProject A customer posed the challenge earlier this week of producing a work and capacity report using the Reports feature in MS Project. Using the existing Resource Overview Report I was happy with getting the total work per resource from...
<tea> European SharePoint Conference 2017 At the back end of last year I was honoured to be able to speak at the ESC2017, the second time I've spoken at the ESC. The title this year was taking Project Online from 0-60 in one hour...
<coffee> Microsoft have very recently released their latest content pack for Project Online and details can be found on the Project Support Blog and the Tech Community Blog. Whilst the new content pack is a big improvement on the previous one, it still...
<tea> Microsoft Project has long been considered as a tool that can only be used with structured , rigid tasks. Typically this type of project is known as a Waterfall project (despite various blogs showing you how you can use Project to manage an...
<tea> There has been some speculation that Microsoft might provide a link between MS Project and Microsoft Planner for quite some time, and now it seems that they’ve done it. From the Task tab, you should be able to see the Link to Planner button (highlighted below). You...
<mineral water> I was lucky enough to be invited back to Kyiv by fellow MVP Oleksiy Prsonitskiy to present at the Ukrainian Project Conference. If you’ve never been to Kyiv, it’s worth the effort with some great sights and great food. https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/4032153?fullName=Oleksiy%20%20Prosnitskiy http://www.project-conference.com.ua/ I presented on two topics, Microsoft...