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| January 27, 2010 | Keeping Users of Microsoft® Office Project Connected. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Note to Members: Book Giveaway! Do you have a work-related resolution for the New Year? Share it at editor@mpug.com by January 31 and be entered into a drawing for one of seven project management books, including The Project Success Method by Clinton Padgett and Cheetah Project Management by Michelle LaBrosse. MPUG WebNLearns Feb 11 Get a Shot of Microsoft Project Feb 25 Chicken Tips for Project Soup Mar 3 Creating a Custom Project Initiation Wizard in VBA Registration closes 24 hours before event. MPUG Online Certificate Program
Registration closes 24 hours before event. MPUG Chapter Meetings Feb 2 Central Indiana Feb 3 Boston Feb 4 Melbourne Feb 9 Phoenix Feb 10 St. Louis Feb 16 Puget Sound Feb 19 Tampa Mar 1 Delaware Valley Mar 9 Phoenix Registration closes 24 hours before event. Jobs Communications Project Manager, United Airlines, Elk Grove, IL Project Coordinator, Tahoe Resource Conservation District, South Lake Tahoe Process/Project Engineer, Integrated Process Technologies, Cary, NC IT Project Manager/Sr. Project Manager, Peterbilt, Denton, TX Sr. Project Manager-ERP Systems, Sidra Medical Research Center, Doha, Qatar To view these and other job postings, visit http://career.mpug.com/. New in the Knowledge Library WebNLearn recording: Unleashing the Power of Microsoft Project 2010 WebNLearn recording: MPUG Certificate Program: Microsoft Project 2007 Essentials, Session 1 To access resources, log in with your member name and choose Knowledge Library from the home page menu. MPUG Resources MPUG Home Join MPUG Contact MPUG Contact Chapter Relations Contact Newsletter Editor Contact Advertising Team Event Inquiries Microsoft Certification Microsoft Office Project 2007 site Microsoft Office Project 2010 site MPUG 1143 Northern Blvd., #315 Clarks Summit, PA 18411 |
 Is Microsoft Project a Project Management Tool? By Vincent McGevna, PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner In an October 2009 article, "Best Practices for Microsoft Project, Part 1," author Jim Park makes the statement: "Microsoft Project isn't a project management tool. Let me repeat that last sentence: Microsoft Project is not a project management tool..." MPUG member Vincent McGevna took exception to Park's statements: "I have been using Project since it was first released, and I can assure you that it is not only a project management tool, but it is the project management tool..." MPUG asked McGevna to offer his counterpoint to Park's assertion. This article is that counterpoint...
Sponsored by Pcubed  How to Achieve a More Realistic Schedule in Your Project Planning  By Aric Katz, PMP, MCTS Project management has moved front and center in organizations as an antidote to heightened competitiveness, greater appetite for innovation, and ever-shrinking budgets and resources. Yet, quite often project managers still lack some key techniques for achieving better project planning and scheduling. In this article, the author shares tools and methods that can aid PMs in improving the quality of their planning and in achieving a more realistic project plan...
Sponsored by Digineer  Featured Event: Feb 10 St. Louis Project Management Reporting In this informative session Frank Records, Director at Oakwood, will discuss reporting tools, then Harry Smith with the Federal Reserve will lead a roundtable discussion. Note the change in meeting time and venue!
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