1. Top 10 problems new (and not so new) Project users have, and what you can do to ease the pain Carl Chatfield, PMP Puget Sound PMI Chapter May, 2007 Note for on-demand viewing: see the slide notes for a narrative for each slide.

2. Why me? Why 10?

3. #10: Try to use Project as a free-form brainstorming tool

7. #9: Enter fixed dates instead of linking tasks

12. #8: Overestimate resource capacity

17. #7: Don’t distinguish work from duration

21. #6: Think that effort-driven scheduling actually makes sense

26. #5: Expect that automatic resource leveling should be able to alter reality

34. #4: Track work by percent complete

39. #3: Put far too much detail in a schedule

40. #2: Believe that good scheduling software makes one a good project manager

42. #1: Forget that the schedule is not the project

43. Q/A: What would you add or remove from my Top 10 list? And my thanks to: Sam Huffman of The Versatile Company Susan Stainsby of Microsoft for their input into this Top 10 list And to Tim Johnson for signing on