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…
| November 24, 2017 | 4 min read
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…
| November 21, 2017 | 8 min read
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…
| November 17, 2017 | 3 min read
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…
| November 10, 2017 | 4 min read
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…
| | 3 min read
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,…
| November 2, 2017 | 6 min read
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…
| October 31, 2017 | 8 min read
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…
| October 19, 2017 | 3 min read
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…
| October 12, 2017 | 8 min read
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…
| October 7, 2017 | 2 min read
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…
| October 2, 2017 | 8 min read
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…
| September 21, 2017 | 6 min read
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…
| September 11, 2017 | 3 min read
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…
| September 7, 2017 | 2 min read
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…
| September 6, 2017 | 4 min read
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…
| September 5, 2017 | 3 min read
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…
| September 3, 2017 | 4 min read
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.…
| August 28, 2017 | 8 min read
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…
| August 14, 2017 | 2 min read
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,…
| August 11, 2017 | 7 min read
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…
| August 9, 2017 | 9 min read
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…
| August 8, 2017 | 3 min read
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.…
| August 2, 2017 | 4 min read
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…
| July 26, 2017 | 5 min read