MPUG Videos from PMI's Global Congress 2011
Ask the Experts: How Can I Revert to My Original View?
Ask the Experts columnist Ellen Lehnert answers this question: How do I revert from a customized view back to the original view in Microsoft Project?
Microsoft Project's Doug McCutcheon on How to Influence Others
Doug McCutcheon, Microsoft Project Business Manager, discusses the role that project managers play in innovative efforts, shares advice on how to influence others, and lays out how he plans to keep the Microsoft Project user community happy in the coming year.
i2e's Free Mobile Apps for Project Managers
i2e Consulting's Sudhir Karanth discusses two mobile apps for project managers that his company is showing during PMI Global Congress 2011: Gantt Lite and Risk Register.
How to Do Enterprise Project Management When All You Have is Microsoft Project Standard
Roy Poole, recent MPUG WebNLearn presenter on "Enterprise Project Management for Dummies," shares the most common mistake he sees companies make when they have multiple projects going on but don't know how to do enterprise project management. Roy also shares the secret to setting up enterprise project management when all you have is the single-user version of Microsoft Project.
Need to Shrink Your Schedule? Acumen PM Has the Fix
Acumen PM's Jenn Goodrich explains how her company's new tool, Fuse 360, a schedule acceleration and support tool for project managers. Has the business leader for your project just told you that you can't have all the time you needed to get your project done? Fuse 360 can help you figure out how to make it work.
How Jaguar Land Rover Got Stakeholder Buy-in for Its Transformation
Pcubed Principal Consultant Larry Mead recaps a PMI Global Congress 2011 presentation on portfolio governance and optimization at luxury car maker Jaguar Land Rover. One challenge always faced in these types of initiatives: How to gain buy-in for governance from the folks executing on the project.
Socializing with Microsoft's Brian Ru
Brian Ru, new product manager with the Microsoft Project group, talks about what he'll be doing for the community and shares the team's broad plans for using social media to reach out.
Ask the Experts: Don't Add That Task Just Yet!
Ask the Experts columnist Ellen Lehnert tells us why it's important to set up all of your calendar options before you start adding tasks to your project in Microsoft Project.
Monte Carlo for More Accurate Estimates
Tony Welsh has written four Monte Carlo simulations in his distinguished career. The latest provides risk analysis insight specifically for Microsoft Project.
Getting a Jumpstart with Project Server
Longtime Microsoft Product Manager Tad Haas recently joined SharkPro Software. Here Haas lays out how SharkPro Projects helps organizations jumpstart their use of Microsoft Project Server and hints at what we can expect in the near future.
Creating a PPM Maturity Model
Doc Dochtermann, Vice President of Microsoft consulting partner Advisicon and leader of the Project Management Institute's Community of Practice for Scheduling, describes a new initiative he presented on at the Global Congress and is guiding at PMI: development of a Project Portfolio Management Maturity Model.
A Two-Minute Education on Agile PM
Valerie Graves, Trainer at project and portfolio management company Sciforma, explains how agile project management differs from traditional project management.
Extending Project Server with Control Functions
The Project Group (TPG) America recently released Project Management Control System, a new application that provides extensions to Project Server. First customer: Microsoft. MPUG Contributor and TPG Senior Project Management Consultant Michael Steinberg explains what Control Server does and how Microsoft is using it.
Getting Those Schedule Estimates Out of People
Microsoft Partner DeltaBahn (formerly BlueBadges) introduced GET it! at PMI Global Congress. GET it uses Project 2010 and SharePoint to allow project managers and people who need to provide estimates on specific tasks to collaborate more easily. In this short clip Chief Engineer Vivian Dracon explains why she developed this inexpensive application.