You might also want to review the 2 part introduction to managing projects alongside the day-job:

Part One: The Two Worlds of Work defined and Part two: The key differences between the Operational and Project worlds

Sometimes it can be useful to copy Project Tasks from MS Project into outlook Tasks so that we can manage the activities within our primary workload management tool. Here’s how:

1. Open the project plan in MS Project

2. Highlight all the tasks you wish to copy into Outlook.

3. Hit ‘Tools ‘ in the top toolbar

4. select ‘Workgroup’

5. Now select ‘Set Reminder’

6. Enter the reminder details as required (you may enter ‘0’ minutes, but a reminder is still set for the start date of the task)

7. Click OK and the task(s) will be entered into Outlook Tasks.

Note: Each Task will have the ‘Due Date’ set according to the project plan.

The ‘Due Date’ in the Outlook Task may need to be changed to be the same as the ‘Start Date’.

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