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Thinking About Elapsed Durations

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What is Elapsed Duration? Microsoft Project offers an unusual scheduling option known as Elapsed Duration. In the Duration column for any task, you can enter a Duration value two different ways: You can enter the Duration value as a regular time value, such as 5 Days.

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Webinar Recap: Microsoft Project Do’s, Don’ts, and Cool Customizations

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These are so common that I included them in Microsoft Project Do’s and Don’ts and more about the book later, the latest edition is available with the URL on this slide and take a screenshot if you’re interested. Now what I’m talking about and I’m about to use ZoomIt. Here we go. Yeah, it did.

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11 Critical Project Management Metrics Every Agency Needs to Track

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Select these carefully so that they cover only the parts of the business you care about. It’s important to be deliberate about choosing project management metrics. After 6 months, 50% of the project’s time has elapsed. Think of it as a baseline KPI that you’ll reuse to measure several other more important metrics.

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How should I study for the PMP exam and how long should that take?

Kiron Bondale

“, the next most common certification-related question I see on LinkedIn and ProjectManagement.com discussion groups is asking how to get ready to write the PMP exam and how much elapsed time should be allowed for this effort. “ I ask them to think about all the possible variables which could affect their answer (e.g.

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A Better Microsoft Project: Workload Levelling and Resource-Critical Path

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A logic-constrained project has a duration only determined by logic (i.e., Critical Path in the network then determines the duration of the project. constrained when its activities require more resources than are available for (part of) the project duration. the network of dependencies). A schedule is resource?constrained

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

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Activity Duration: The total length of time it takes to complete an activity from start to finish. Actual Duration: The actual time spent on an activity from start to finish. Actual Duration is a function of the activity's Actual Start and Actual Finish dates. Activity ID: An alphanumeric code used to identify an activity.