Creating Custom Views in the Enterprise Global

Creating Custom Views in the Enterprise Global One of our customers at PPM Works recently asked how to how modify the views in Project Professional for all their users. She was wondering if there was a way to bulk edit Project Professional. The answer is yes. Changes [...]

Budget Cost Resources

Budget Cost Resources Budget Cost Resources can be used to track cost resources at the project level against the Baseline Budget Cost. If your organization would like to track budget costs against the original baseline, consider using budget cost resources instead of custom project-level cost fields. Administrators [...]

Optimizing the Resource Plan View

Optimizing the Resource Plan View How can I compare the committed resource engagements to how I am scheduling resources in my project? This is a common question from Project Managers that are using Resource Engagements to calculate resource utilization. Diligent Project Managers want to compare the committed [...]

Templates Can Be Set to Calculate Resource Utilization from Engagements

Templates Can Be Set to Calculate Resource Utilization from Engagements   The training team at PPM Works understands that when creating Resource Engagements it can be difficult for Project Managers to remember to change the utilization setting in Project Professional 2016. Creating and submitting the Engagements is [...]

Reducing the Maximum Units for Enterprise Resources

Reducing the Maximum Units for Enterprise Resources PPM Works has a customer that asked how to lock down the Maximum Units for resources so that Project Managers could not assign them to tasks at a higher percentage. In training I am always advising Project Managers to reduce [...]