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A Season for Giving, A Reason for Sharing, MPUG-Style!
Final week to act! During December 2010, MPUG members have all kinds of reasons to share their expertise, questions, tips, presentation proposals, and templates! Every member that participates on MPUG.com during the month of December will get a gift from MPUG. Plus, with each contribution to the MPUG community website at MPUG.com, your name will go into a random drawing to win all kinds of Big Stuff -- and best of all, the community wins too! Learn more here!
MPUG's Generous Prize Sponsors include:
Worldwide consultancy Pcubed is offering up to eight hours of free advisory remote support for organizations that want a "best in breed" review of their enterprise project management environment.
MSProjectExperts is contributing a copy of the Ultimate Study Guide: Foundations Microsoft Project 2010, written by Dale Howard and Gary Chefetz. This volume provides a complete learning experience and reference manual for managing projects using the Microsoft Office Project 2010 desktop application.
This week's member entries include these posts to the MPUG forums:
Earned Value Management: "I have baselined individual project plans and recorded actual progress of the tasks. Then, I inserted individual project plans to a master project plan. However..."
Time-scaled Data Limitations: "...anyone familiar with the time-scaled data add-in for Excel that shipped with Project a while back?..."
Novice User: "I use Project mostly to think through project tasks and then to make assignments in an office of five people. I could use a good introductory text for a beginner."
Sync to SharePoint Feature: "Anyone found workarounds for the requirement of having manually scheduled tasks in order to use the Sync to SharePoint feature?..."
Consolidation of Multiple Project Plans into One: "I would like to hear other experiences with consolidating multiple Project Pro 2010 plans into one to create one dashboard for reporting, while keeping the other single plans current."
Beta Exam Results and Impressions: "...I would love for each of us to post our overall thoughts, impressions, and results of the exam here..."
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 Tackle Your Microsoft Project Beta Test!
You still have a few days to get into the testing center and take your free Microsoft beta exam for test 71-178, "Microsoft Project 2010: Managing Projects," before Microsoft closes the beta program. Check your email inbox from mid-December for a message from MPUG with details on registration.
 Give the MPUG Gift Package!
Whether you have one person or a team to thank during the holidays, consider giving an MPUG Holiday Voucher. Your recipients will receive 12 months of masterful project management training, Microsoft Project expertise, and networking opportunities along with the classic MPUG tee and ballcap! (Plus, for giving the gift, you'll receive your own tee and ballcap too!)
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