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By: Resume Templates Microsoft Word 2007

Resume Templates Microsoft Word 2007 — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 07:01:12 +0000

Excellent post! I really like your writing style : D

By: Johanna Rothman

Johanna Rothman — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:15:56 +0000

Jim, I used Excel to generate these tables, which are like the ones I use in organizations. I’ll send you private email to see what’s giving you trouble.

By: Jim Cleveland

Jim Cleveland — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 04:06:06 +0000

I have very recently purchased and read ‘Behind Closed Doors
Secrets of Great Management’. Within the book the “high-level” concept of creating a ‘Project Portfolio’ is described; however, I am having trouble actually creating one in practice. I initially created a Microsoft Word document because I think Word does a fairly good job at providing automatic numbering and bulleted lists with sub-lists. Then, I translated this Word document into an Excel spreadsheet because it does a good job of presenting tables and providing “easy” summations and sorting for items such as a priority column. Unfortunately, I seem to be grasping for something that is somewhere in between the two. I have used Microsoft Project for project planning, but that seems to be serious overkill for day-to-day communications/task management. Do you or anyone else have any suggestions on tools or even Word or Excel templates that have been used with great success?

By: Justin Craigon

Justin Craigon — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:44:24 +0000

Hi Johanna,
Just come across the site and it looks great, thanks for the tips.
While multi tasking will help people to juggle their priorities they still need to know which balls not to drop.

By: James A. Ward

James A. Ward — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 01:12:05 +0000

Johanna,
As you well know the most common solution to the scenario you describe is multi-tasking, assigning the same people to multiple projects in the same time frame. This avoids having to set priorities.