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| April 29, 2009 | Keeping Users of Microsoft® Office Project Connected. |
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Note to Members! We have two book giveaways in this issue for members! Read Eric Uyttewaal's excellent article, "How Gantt Chart Literate Are You," for his puzzler. And read "Develop Your Project Management Skills: Scenes in the Negotiation Play" for the other. MPUG WebNLearns May 7, 2009 Visual Reports Unleashed May 20, 2009 Microsoft Project for the Advanced User Jun 3, 2009 Got Project Professional? Jun 19, 2009 More Tips and Tricks from Gary Chefetz MPUG Chapter Meetings Apr 30, 2009 Sydney Apr 30, 2009 Manchester Apr 30, 2009 San Francisco May 5, 2009 Melbourne May 5, 2009 Central Indiana May 12, 2009 Chicago May 12, 2009 Las Vegas May 13, 2009 St. Louis May 15, 2009 Twin Cities May 16, 2009 Stamford, CT May 19, 2009 Atlanta Jun 3, 2009 Farmington, CT Jun 8, 2009 Atlanta Jun 10, 2009 St. Louis Jun 18, 2009 New York City Jun 24, 2009 SE Michigan Sponsored Events Apr 29, 2009 Views, Filters, Groups, and Fields May 27, 2009 Custom Toolbars and Screens Sep 14, 2009 Microsoft Project Conference 2009 For Officers Only Tune into the recorded LiveMeeting session from Apr 28 to learn about:
New in the Knowledge Base It's template month! We've just uploaded a whole bunch of new files to the Templates folder on MPUG.com, including:
Jobs Project Manager, The General Lighthouse Authorities, Harwich, Essex Project Leader, Subway World Headquarters, Milford, CT Project Controls Manager, CH2M Hill, Afghanistan Microsoft Project Schedule Analyst, DEI Services, Orlando-Winter Park, FL Project Manager of Process Management, Prudential Financial, Dresher, PA Log in with your MPUG membership to gain access to the Career Center. MPUG Resources MPUG Home Join MPUG Microsoft Office Project 2007 site MPUG 1143 Northern Blvd., #315 Clarks Summit, PA 18411 |
 How Gantt Chart-Literate Are You?By Eric Uyttewaal, PMP MCSD, MCITP In a recent training with executives of a Fortune 500 company, a select group of time-pressured, well-educated, and highly-paid people were trying to make sense of Tracking Gantt Charts that their new project management information system produced straight out of the box. Unfortunately, several failed the test, which is the reason Eric wrote this article. Here's your chance to test your Gantt Chart expertise -- and win a book!...
Sponsored by IIL  
Ask the Expert: Optimize Microsoft Project PerformanceBy Marc Soester, MVP Joseph McDowell writes, "Microsoft claims Microsoft Project 2007 has the capacity of up to 400,000 tasks. However, we have a number of projects that when they get to about 1,000 tasks, things start to slow down, and when you get to 4,000 to 6,000 tasks, things slow down drastically...
Sponsored by Microsoft Project Conference 2009   Develop Your Project Management Skills: Scenes in the Negotiation PlayBy Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, and Linda Lansky, PMP Effective project management requires strong negotiating skills. In this article (taken from the book, Cheetah Negotiations) you'll learn common negotiation tactics that will save you time and help you avoid typical dramas. Plus, enter this month's book giveaway!...
Featured Event: May 5, 2009 Melbourne: Microsoft EPM Solution Delivery -- Real World Lessons From solution deployment to operational running, what are the key focus areas for encouraging an organizational EPM success story? This session will be a mixture of presenter-led and group discussion on what to look for, what lessons can be learned, and how to better ensure a successful EPM initiative.
MPUF Discussions "...I have not been able to find a thorough and authoritative treatment of the subject of Basis of Estimate. Do any of you know of such an animal?..."
"Has anyone had luck creating a serious Earned Value solution with MS Project Server?..." "Can we use a resource graph for multiple resources in one view?..." To participate in this MPUG Microsoft Project Users Forum discussion, sign in at MPUG.com with your MPUG username and password, then head to MPUF here: http://www.mpug.com/membercenter/pages/mpuf.aspx  |