Writing technical documents with gender neutral language

1)
The form no one enjoys reading:
The project manager approved the estimates and added it to her or his project plan.

The more appropriate form:
The project manager approved the estimates and added it to the project plan.


2)
The form no one enjoys reading:
The professional project manager considers all the risks. S\he also categorizes them.

The more appropriate form:
The professional project managers consider all the risks. They also categorize them.


3)
On the level of words comes some examples:

Chairman --> Chair
Policeman --> Police officer


4)
For titles, unless you are sure about the specific person's preference; 

Miss --> Ms
Mrs  --> Ms

A killing mistake for task scheduling: 12:00AM or 12:PM

To cut it short:

12:00PM is noon.
12:00AM is mid-night.

Difference between Start\Finish times, Baseline Start\Finish times, and Actual Start\Finish times for project tasks.

Baseline Start\Finish times: Those are the planned times entered during planning to specify the planned start\finish times for each task. Once the plan enters execution, this should not change; however, this remains as a baseline (reference) for comparison with the actual Task Start\Finish times for each task for the purposes of monitoring or evaluation.

Actual Start\Finish times: Those are the actual times periodically entered for each task at the head of its execution and following its completion to specify the actual duration for each task.

Start\Finish times: Those are the forecast-ed times periodically updated for planned tasks to reflect any new inputs which are excepted to change the schedule and which were not foreseen at initial project planning.

Microsoft Project Printing Gantt Chart without Tasks Table

The key here is to hide the Tasks table :)

View Menu --> Tables --> More Tables --> New --> No Info Table with ID column of 0 width.

Then you can print freely, where the Tasks table will not be present.

To show again the default tasks table:

View Menu --> Tables -->

Moving\Migrating mail messages from Exchange account to Hotmail account

Taking into consideration that copy paste would not work from Outlook desktop application to Windows Live Mail and trying to Import the normal way would not work.

The key to succeed in doing that is configuring the Hotmail account using IMAP protocol on the same Outlook application.

Very detailed article about the steps:
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/765


I have tried the Microsoft Outlook 2013 procedure. Thanks!

3 Common Inheritance Storage Schemas

Table per hierarchy	Table per subclass	Table per concrete type
- One table contains all types within the hierarchy. - One type discriminate between types.	- One table contains the base properties across the type hierarchy. - Separate table for additional properties for each sub-type.	- Table per concrete type class including inherited properties

Tip: DOE on job postings

DOE: Dependent on Experience

This is usually associated with the expected salary figure

Tip: To mind your Ps and Qs

That is to be polite; hence, to consider saying the words: Please  and Thank you.


That's actually both an English and a Business communication tip, beside being an English idiom.