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| February 24, 2010 | Keeping Users of Microsoft® Office Project Connected. | ||
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MPUG WebNLearns Feb 25 Chicken Tips for Project Soup Mar 3 Creating a Custom Project Initiation Wizard in VBA Mar 12 Resource Planning from the Top Down and Bottom Up Mar 24 Beyond Reporting with Project Server Apr 13 Critical Path 2.0 with Eric Uyttewaal, Part 1 Apr 14 Critical Path 2.0 with Eric Uyttewaal, Part 2 Registration closes 24 hours before event. MPUG Chapter Meetings Feb 25 Mexico City Mar 3 Toronto Mar 8 South Africa Mar 9 Phoenix Mar 10 St. Louis Mar 11 Connecticut Mar 12 New York City Mar 16 Atlanta Mar 23 Baltimore-Washington, DC Mar 23 Chicago Registration closes 24 hours before event. Sponsored Event May 17 Project World/Business Analyst World Toronto 2010 Jobs SAP Project Manager, Baker & McKenzie Global Services, Chicago Specialist, Process Engineering, Programs and Project Management, CIBC, Toronto Sr. Systems Project Manager, Tufts Medical Center, Boston Project Manager, AES, Dallas/Ft. Worth Technical Project Manager, Disney Interactive Media Group, Kelowna, BC Sr. Project Engineer, Abbott Medical Optics, Groningen, Netherlands Manager, Project Management, Capital One, Richmond, VA Project Manager - Revenue Cycle, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Worcester, MA To view these and other job postings, visit http://career.mpug.com/. 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 |
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Sponsored by MS Project Now!  Critical Path 2.0  By Eric Uyttewaal
Now that Critical Path Method has been with us for nearly 60 years, it's time to ask the question: Does CPM 1.0 still deserve a place in our project management body of knowledge? In this article, scheduling expert Eric Uyttewaal examines the weaknesses of CPM, its competition, and the state of CPM functionality in scheduling software to find out whether this long-time component of project management can survive the next decade...
(Guest access until March 24, 2010)  Ask the Experts: What's Going on This Week?  By Ellen Lehnert, PMP, MCT, MCITP
Roger from New York asks: Has anyone ever written a process/macro/view/something whereby I can produce a timesheet of sorts that tells my resources what tasks they're to work on this week, possibly using the Gantt view?
Answer: This is something that many people have asked me about, and there are several solutions available depending on what you're looking for... (Guest access until March 24, 2010) Featured Event: Feb 25: Chicken Tips for Project Soup A unique tips and tricks session developed to give you the courage and inspiration to successfully navigate Microsoft Project 2007. Presented by Digineer's Larry Christofaro.
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