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How current are your risks?

Kiron Bondale

I’ve often referenced Dr. David Hillson’s definition of risk as “ uncertainty that matters ” in my articles about project risk management. The last word in that short sentence is critical. If stakeholders don’t feel that the information presented to them about a risk matters to them, they will ignore it. At best, this means the effort which the project team spent on identifying, analyzing, and communicating risks was wasted, but at worst, it could result in a stakeh

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A Better Microsoft Project: Background Color in D * U = W fields to Communicate Which Fields are Protected and Editable

MPUG

I believe the fields involved in assigning resources in MS Project have created the most problems and biggest challenges for users in previous decades. Regardless of whether my thousands of students had used MS Project just one month, a year, or even a decade, I could always safely assume that simplifying the process of assigning resources was of interest to them!

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Add Juneteenth to Your MS Project Holiday Calendar

MPUG

In 2021, Juneteenth was recognized as a US federal holiday to commemorate the emancipation of enslaved African-Americans and honor Black culture. It has been celebrated annually on June 19 in various parts of the United States since 1865. If you are already using a holiday calendar in MS Project, below are the dates to add in for Juneteenth. Beware that the default holiday calendar in Project is empty; it does not include any legal holidays.

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