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Tag: project management

  • Export Microsoft Project Tasks to Outlook

    Export tasks and milestones from your project plan to Outlook tasks, appointments or notes

    MPP to Outlook Clearly and Simply claims to be a blog on “intelligent data analysis, modeling, simulation and visualization”, and most of the posts are indeed discussing these topics. From time to time, however, I intersperse a post on project management, since project management activities always come along with most of my projects to a greater or lesser extent.

    I suppose this might be the case in your professional life as well. A couple of months ago I published a post on how to export a Gantt chart from Microsoft Project to Microsoft PowerPoint. This post was extremely well received by our readers. Thus, I thought publishing another article on how to export from mpp files to other Microsoft Office applications might do no harm.

    Today’s post provides a very simple tool to export tasks or milestones from your Microsoft Project plan to Outlook, either as a task, an appointment or a note. As always, including the tool for free download.

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  • What is not on paper has not been said

    Monitor your project with an Action Point Register

    „Action point register? What is an action point register? A to-do-list?”

    Well, yes and no. Basically it is a to-do-list, however not for a single person but for a team or a project group. It helps the project manager to document, assign, schedule and track all action points and issues.

    „Alright, it is a longer to-do-list and distributed among the team members. Who needs another Excel template for a to-do-list?”

    I agree, it is really easy to create a simple to-do-list with Microsoft Excel within a couple of minutes and probably most of you have already done this. Even if you don’t want to create one, several websites and blogs are providing different free templates for to-do-lists / action point registers.

    So why publish another one? Well, because I think this one is a bit more sophisticated. And it is quite in line with the post on importing Microsoft Project files into Microsoft Excel.

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  • Bring your tasks in a row

    How to import Microsoft Project files into Microsoft Excel

    mpp_to_xls Have you ever managed a larger project with several subprojects, hundreds of tasks and milestones, dozens of members in the project team and even more other staff contributing to the project, spread all over almost every department of the company? If so, you might have used Microsoft Project to plan and monitor the project.

    Since there were so many different people contributing, you may have encountered the following challenge: You had to distribute the actual project plan to all team members at least once a week, but not everyone had Microsoft Project installed on his computer. So you couldn’t simply send the Microsoft Project file.

    Sounds familiar? What do you usually do?

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