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Win a Free Pass to the Microsoft Project Conference!
During December, members and non-members who add a comment on the MPUG.com discussion forum will have their names entered into a random drawing to win a pass to the Microsoft Project Conference 2012! Go here for full details!
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Featured Event Jan 10: Creating your EPM Deployment Plan
This session looks at what belongs in your EPM deployment schedule. Presented by HMS Software's Chris Vandersluis, author of the "From the Trenches" column on the Project Server section of Microsoft’s TechNet site, we'll look at the elements of your EPM deployment schedule that need to be addressed. That includes assembling a deployment team, setting business objectives, designing EPM processes, and more.
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Registration free to members; fee for non-members. Registration closes 24 hours before event.
Dec 15 Project Talk: It’s Budget Time! What’s In Your Portfolio? (Part 2)
How are next year’s projects really selected? How can we, as project management professionals, help get this process under control? Join the Project Talk guys from PM Providers to explore strategic portfolio management and how to leverage Microsoft Project Server 2010 to get your project portfolio under control.
Jan 10 Creating your EPM Deployment Plan
This session looks at what belongs in your EPM deployment schedule. Presented by HMS Software's Chris Vandersluis, author of the "From the Trenches" column on the Project Server section of Microsoft’s TechNet site, we'll look at the elements of your EPM deployment schedule that need to be addressed. That includes assembling a deployment team, setting business objectives, designing EPM processes, and more.
Jan 19 Seven Basic Steps to Building a Realistic Schedule
You'll learn how to enter project information, create a work breakdown structure, link tasks, assign resources, optimize the schedule, baseline the schedule, and track actuals and report status. Presented by Sai Prasad. This session originates from India.
Jan 26 Project Server 2010 – Making Resource Constraint Analysis Work
The objective of this highly detailed session is to consider all the neat features of resource management, including the project and portfolio feature set, and combine them to come up with a process that will be useful as a template for organizations. Presented by Prasanna Adavi.
Feb 16 Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices for Using Microsoft Project
Learn how to get the most out of Microsoft Project with these useful tips delivered by a Project pro.
MPUG Meetups
Registration free to members. Registration closes 24 hours before event.
Dec 13 Baltimore-Wash., D.C. Maximize Project 2010 with Office 365 for Project Management Success
How to create an effective project plan with a combination of Project, SharePoint, and Microsoft's new cloud-based productivity tool suite, Office 365. Plus, project team best practices for sharing information, facilitating better collaboration, and building project management dashboards in SharePoint, Lync, and Windows Phone. Presented by Innovative-e's Dux Raymond Sy.
Dec 13 Atlanta: Integrating Project and Financial Functions
This session shows you how to create a project management control system that integrates project control with financial functions using EPM and SharePoint. Presented by Michael Steinberg.
Jan 20 Minneapolis/St. Paul: Ask the Experts
It's time again for one of our all-time favorite sessions, "Ask the Experts." We'll have a panel of Microsoft Project experts available to answer your most difficult questions. Panelists have experience with all versions of Microsoft Project and Project Server. If something in Project 2003, 2007, or 2010 is keeping you awake at night, bring it to your experts and regain your good night's sleep.
Jan 26 Puget Sound: The Care and Feeding of Project Zealots
This multi-topic session provides a brief demo on Microsoft Project reporting, a talk with Microsoft's Brian Ru on the upcoming Project conference, and a presentation by Carl Chatfield that explores why Project users are disproportionately invested in their product, and how you can help spread the love.
For Members Only
Enter an MPUG drawing for one of three free autographed copies of Eric Verzuh's new PM book, The Fast Forward MBA in Project Management, 4th Edition! Details in this excerpt. But hurry! The deadline is Dec 16, 2011, noon, Pacific time.
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