Upcoming MPUG Global Chapter Events and WebNLearns!
Sponsored by Pcubed
Featured Event: Apr 7 2009 Frontrange: Project Visualization and Why It Matters
Visualizing complex, changing projects is an important and often shortchanged aspect of project management. People can't act wisely on what they can't see clearly. Opaque projects are vulnerable to fading financial support. This talk covers the fundamentals of project visualization and then reviews tools for helping others see what is going on. Such tools have proved their value in the aerospace/defense, finance, and pharmaceutical industries by combining easy IMS data extraction, historical visualization, and scenario demonstration. They let project managers spend less time preparing for project reviews while delivering more effective schedule status, analysis, and recommendations. Presented by Jim Black with Chronicle Graphics, which produces software for telling project stories.
MPUG Global WebNLearns!
Finding it hard to attend meetings in person right now? Hone your Microsoft Office Project skills and stay up with professional networking through MPUG WebNLearns -- delivered via LiveMeeting on your computer and an Internet connection.
Apr 2, 2009 Northeast Connection WebNLearn: Advanced Microsoft Project Tips & Tricks
Don’t let simple tasks that used to eat away at your time keep you from the important ones. In this free training session, Microsoft and its Gold Certified Partner, Project Solutions Group, will address some of the common challenges people face when using Microsoft Project: Formatting and printing Gantt charts; calculating work, duration, and units; baselining the project; calculating costs and budgets; measuring project status; resource leveling; linking multiple projects; creating custom views; and generating custom reports.
Apr 15, 2009 WebNLearn: Microsoft Project for the Intermediate User -- Learn from the MVP
As a Microsoft Project user do you keep telling yourself, “There must be an easier way to…”? In this session, we'll explore ways to use Microsoft Project to become more efficient at managing your projects. We will also look at some ways to better visualize your projects with reporting. Topics include: shortcuts for updating your project plan; creating calculated fields and indicators to easily find areas for improvement on your plan; creating views and tables that will automate managing your schedule; creating custom fields that let you filter, sort, and group tasks to manage work packages and deliverables; and creating visual reports of your schedule using Excel and Visio. Presented by Pcubed.
Apr 24, 2009 WebNLearn: More Tips and Tricks from eDale, MVP
Please join us for another round of Microsoft Project and project management tips and tricks, presented by lively and engaging trainer Dale “eDale” Howard, MVP.
May 7, 2009 Northeast Connection WebNLearn: Visual Reports Unleashed!
Are you interested in improving the effectiveness of your communication with project stakeholders? Could you benefit from drawing attention to and justifying focus on project risks, issues, and resources? Project 2007 allows you to effectively communicate and present project information through the new Visual Reports feature. The new Visual Reports feature is a flexible solution that uses Office Excel and Microsoft Office Visio to produce great-looking charts, graphs, and diagrams based on Office Project 2007 data. Please join us for this special WebNLearn on how you can unleash the power of Visual Reports to your advantage
May 20, 2009 WebNLearn: Microsoft Project for the Advanced User -- Learn from the MVP
If you've been using Microsoft Project for some time and consider yourself an advanced user, it may be time to look at how you can leverage your existing skills and boost collaboration with your team. Microsoft Project Server can allow you to store your projects in a central database, enable a single centralized resource pool, and allow members of your team to view and update their status on a website. The following topics will be covered in this presentation: a brief overview of Project Server; adjustments you will need to make to your project plan before making the leap to Project Server; how to use the Enterprise Resource Pool; requesting -- and receiving -- status updates from your team members; configuring Project Server views so others on your team can see -- and understand -- the Gantt chart; creating visual OLAP Cube reports on PWA that show project and resource progress. Presented by Pcubed.
MPUG Global Chapter Events
Apr 1, 2009 SE Michigan: Build a Lightweight Project Management Information System
During tough times, project teams need to become more efficient than ever, and one way to streamline project management processes is by making the best use of inexpensive tools. Tony Zink, MCTS, MCITP, and Principal Consultant with MSProjectExperts, will present several interesting ways that SharePoint and Microsoft Project can be used together to build a lightweight project management information system (PMIS), allowing people to streamline how they collaborate and manage their work on projects.
Apr 7 2009 Frontrange: Project Visualization and Why It Matters
Visualizing complex, changing projects is an important and often shortchanged aspect of project management. People can't act wisely on what they can't see clearly. Opaque projects are vulnerable to fading financial support. This talk covers the fundamentals of project visualization and then reviews tools for helping others see what is going on. Such tools have proved their value in the aerospace/defense, finance, and pharmaceutical industries by combining easy IMS data extraction, historical visualization, and scenario demonstration. They let project managers spend less time preparing for project reviews while delivering more effective schedule status, analysis, and recommendations. Presented by Jim Black with Chronicle Graphics, which produces software for telling project stories.
Apr 8, 2009 St. Louis: Cultural Impact of Implementing MSP
This roundtable breakfast meeting will explore the cultural impact of implementing Microsoft Project in your organization.
Apr 10, 2009 Paris: 3ème réunion du groupe utilisateurs Microsoft Project
Réconcilier Microsoft Project avec les démarches agiles par Ian Stokes, de IIL. La gestion des livrables dans SharePoint par Rolland David, PCubed. La Fédération Française de Voile surfe sur la vague EPM par Philippe Gouard, DTN de la Fédération Française de Voile; et Vincent Capitaine, M7.
Apr 16, 2009 Connecticut: Project Management Process Better Practices
In this networking event, you'll have the chance to meet with other Microsoft Project users throughout the state and learn about great local and online resources available to members of MPUG. Refreshments will be provided. Attendees will earn one PDU (good toward PMP recertification).
Apr 17, 2009 Twin Cities: Leveraging Microsoft Project Baselines and Critical Path
During execution of your project schedule, are you struggling with which tasks you should be focusing on? Are the tasks on the critical path the only important ones for making the project deadlines? In this informative session Tina Mariani from Milestone Consulting Group will present on capturing a baseline and ways to monitor critical path and critical tasks to ensure you are on the correct path of successfully delivering your project scope, on time, and within budget. Lunch will be provided.
Apr 28, 2009, London Chapter Meeting
Details to come.
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.
May 5, 2009 Connecticut: Leveling Your Portfolio -- Are You Crazy?
Leveling your company’s portfolio of projects can be done! What are the benefits to leveling your company’s portfolio? How do individual projects need to be structured in order to work with portfolio leveling? What are the limitations or drawbacks to portfolio leveling? How and where do you begin? This presentation will cover those topics as well as the processes used at Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance that may help your organization begin to tackle your portfolio leveling. Presented by Erika Kelly and Christie Rassel. Also available as a WebNLearn presentation on the same day.
May 13, 2009 St. Louis: EPM & TFS from a PM Perspective
This breakfast meeting will feature an informative presentation on enterprise project management and Team Foundation Server and how to leverage what may already be in use with developers.
Sponsored Events
Apr 24, 2009 Central Indiana: Preparing Your Organization for an EPM Deployment or Migration
When an organization implements an enterprise project management (EPM) technology for the first time, it migrates from a decentralized to a centralized project management scheme. It's not surprising that system-to-system migrations require the same careful steps that apply to new implementations, even if you can execute them more rapidly. This workshop establishes the foundations for the business commitments necessary for implementing a well-constructed EPM solution and the organizational commitments necessary for driving adoption. Then you'll have the opportunity to join a team and work with your peers to identify and discuss the EPM implementation or migration requirements for a fictitious company, based on a document dossier provided to you and your team. Walking through the various deployment elements as the day progresses, teams present their findings to the greater assembly for feedback and interactive discussion.
Sep 14, 2009 Microsoft Project Conference 2009
Project Conference 2009 is the global event to attend. It’s sure to be one of the most exciting and valuable Project conferences yet with high-impact keynotes, 75-plus in-depth breakout sessions, hands on labs, demonstrations, and many opportunities to connect and collaborate with your peers, industry practitioners, certified partners and the Microsoft Project team. In the current economic climate, it’s vital to keep both your individual skills and organizational capabilities moving forward -– don’t miss the opportunity!
Note to Members!
Did you know members can view recorded WebNLearn sessions? Just log into MPUG.com and choose Knowledge Library from the home page. The following presentations are now available:
- Portfolio Management and Governance: What's it all about?
- Microsoft Project for the Beginning User - Learn >From the MVP
- NorthEast Connection WebNLearn: Give Your Project Workspaces a Facelift
- Central Indiana: Microsoft Project Scheduling Theory
- Using SQL Reporting Services with Project Server 2007
- Building SharePoint Dashboards
- Baltimore-Washington Metro: Enterprise Resource Management using Microsoft Project Server and Portfolio Server 2007
- Microsoft Project Portfolio
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