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SharePoint

Importing a Microsoft Project Schedule to a SharePoint Task List

In my last article, I walked through the best practice steps to initially set up and use Microsoft Project with the BrightWork Structured Site Template. Watch: Using BrightWork Templates…

Ciara McCarthy | November 24, 2017 | 4 min read

BrightWork

How to Improve Your Project Leadership Skills

Anyone can become a leader – it just takes practice, intent, and commitment. This applies to both project managers and team members; after all, leadership is a choice. We follow…

Grace Windsor | November 21, 2017 | 8 min read

SharePoint

How to Delete a User from Your SharePoint Site Collection

A common question that we are asked is “How do I remove users from my BrightWork site collection?” And more specifically the “My Work” user drop downs. It’s quite common…

Jonathan Browne | November 17, 2017 | 3 min read

SharePoint

User with Full Control Cannot Create Subsites or Projects in SharePoint

Lately, we had a customer whose SharePoint environment suffered from an unknown access denied error, when a user with full control cannot create subsites in the site collection. Each time…

Jonathan Browne | November 10, 2017 | 4 min read

SharePoint

Setting up your Project Schedule with Microsoft Project Sync

Often, I get asked the best way to use BrightWork with the Microsoft Project Sync feature in a BrightWork Structured Site. The key to using this well is to make…

Ciara McCarthy | | 3 min read

Collaboration

How to Create a Project Team Charter

I’m sure many of you are familiar with a project charter, a document defining the ‘raison d’etre’ of the project. The project charter outlines the proposed scope of work, requirements,…

Grace Windsor | November 2, 2017 | 6 min read

BrightWork

How to Build Your Personal Leadership Brand in 5 Steps

Think about your most recent purchase. Did you choose a particular brand over another? Did you make this choice based on your previous experience with that brand in terms of…

Grace Windsor | October 31, 2017 | 8 min read

SharePoint

Change a SharePoint User Display Name with PowerShell

There can be many reasons why you may want to change the displayed SharePoint user display name given to a user in SharePoint. You may also wish to find what…

Jonathan Browne | October 19, 2017 | 3 min read

Collaboration

Do You Know How to Build a Stellar Project Team?

Successful project management relies on great teams to get the work done on time and as agreed. Unfortunately, with so much emphasis on planning, processes, and tools, it’s easy to…

Grace Windsor | October 12, 2017 | 8 min read

SharePoint

Remove Indentation on Task List View

I had a question recently from a customer about how to remove indentation on a task list view when they had added a filter to show only milestones. However, in…

Ciara McCarthy | October 7, 2017 | 2 min read

Collaboration

A Quick Guide to Project Teams

For many, myself included, being part of a team and all that comes with it – collaboration, problem-solving, healthy conflict, help, learning, fun – influence how happy we are at…

Grace Windsor | October 2, 2017 | 8 min read

BrightWork

6 Things Project Managers Need to Do to Earn a Promotion

When endeavoring to advance your project management career, there is more to earning a promotion than merely excelling in your project management role. Develop your leadership skills with our…

Darragh Broderick | September 21, 2017 | 6 min read

SharePoint

Working with 3 or more CAML Conditions

The background for this blog post comes in light of a recent customer case. They were trying to create a metric that required 3 or more CAML conditions to be…

Michael Downing | September 11, 2017 | 3 min read

Project Reporting

BrightWork Open Work Cache Explained for Speedier Reporting

In BrightWork 15.5, a new feature was added to allow you to use an Open Work Cache to improve the overall performance and speed as to how BrightWork renders Work…

Ciara McCarthy | September 7, 2017 | 2 min read

Project Reporting | Risk Management

Using SharePoint for Project Issue Management

A former project manager colleague of mine once quipped “Project Management…what’s that? My job is Issue Management!” The other project managers and I all had an uncomfortable chuckle and nodded…

Jonathan Weisglass | September 6, 2017 | 4 min read

SharePoint

Create and Compare a Metric from Other Metrics

As you already know, BrightWork Metrics are used to calculate both the Performance and Progress of a Project. Sometimes you may need to create a Metric that is a calculation…

Peter Doyle | September 5, 2017 | 3 min read

SharePoint

Move a Site to an Archive Area in SharePoint

As a BrightWork Customer Success Architect, I frequently get a call from my customers asking to archive a project or to move a project site under another Project Office. As…

Ciara McCarthy | September 3, 2017 | 4 min read

BrightWork

Why do You Need to Worry About Imposter Syndrome?

The exaggerated esteem in which my lifework is held makes me feel very ill at ease. I feel compelled to think of myself as an involuntary swindler – Albert Einstein.…

Grace Windsor | August 28, 2017 | 8 min read

SharePoint

Calculate Today as a Metric on SharePoint

Calculating Today’s Date in SharePoint has always been a challenge as naturally, the date changes daily. SharePoint will only render a calculated column when the field is updated. Sometimes you may…

Peter Doyle | August 14, 2017 | 2 min read

Portfolio Management

Project Portfolio Management: 5 Benefits and 5 Common Mistakes

In case you aren’t familiar with the term, project portfolio management (PPM) is distinct from project management; rather than taking on a single project and seeing it through to completion,…

Darragh Broderick | August 11, 2017 | 7 min read

BrightWork

How to Survive and Thrive in Your New Project Management Job

As a millennial who graduated from university in 2010 at the height of an economic crisis, I’ve switched between jobs and between roles in the same organization a few times…

Grace Windsor | August 9, 2017 | 9 min read

BrightWork

Project Timesheets on BrightWork

Recently, BrightWork and HMS Software announced a partnership that brings our two products together: BrightWork and TimeControl. TimeControl is a time management application that interfaces with BrightWork to provide robust…

Scott Footlik | August 8, 2017 | 3 min read

SharePoint

Learn to Use CAML Query – Part 2

Following the last blog, Learn CAML Statements Part 1, this blog looks at some of the CAML comparison operators that can be used within Collaborative Application Markup Language (CAML) queries.…

Ciara McCarthy | August 2, 2017 | 4 min read

Project Reporting

5 Common Project Reporting Mistakes to Avoid

A report is described as a document with key information covering a specific time period, and communicated in oral or written form. Or, more commonly, the bane of every project…

Grace Windsor | July 26, 2017 | 5 min read

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