Overview

In this article I’ll help you understand Microsoft Project Task Types. Understanding Fixed Units, Fixed Work, and Fixed Duration – can be crucial for managing your project effectively. These Task Types determine how project scheduling behaves when you make changes to the...

In this blog post article, I’m going to show you how to create and use alternate cost rates for your resources in Microsoft Project. Suppose that you have a project team member named Calvin Baker, who has different cost rates depending on the type of tasks to which he is assigned. For...

Years ago, a project manager asked a fascinating question in one of the Microsoft Project user forums. He wanted to know how to calculate the Start date of the entire project based on a specific task that had to start on a predefined date. This involves using some clever techniques, including...