About: Ben Howard
Awarded Community Leader for his very popular and comprehensive UK web training series. Ben Howard has over 20 years of experience of implementing enterprise solutions such as MRPII, ERP, and latterly Microsoft’s Project Online solution. During that time he’s worked for IBM, DELL, and Microsoft, as well as several smaller organisations. He now runs his own EPM consultancy (Applepark Ltd), providing Project, Project Online and Power BI implementation and training services. He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Value Professional award for Project for the last 10 years, blogs semi frequently at www.applepark.co.uk, has published the successful “Microsoft Project 2013 Plain and Simple” book, produces video training for Pluralsight, and finally was responsible for producing P2O, an application that exports tasks from Project into Outlook. Follow Ben on twitter: @ben_project
All Articles and Webinars by Ben Howard
Using Project Online to Manage New Product Development(NPD) Projects
Written on February 23, 2016, by Ben Howard
Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Strategic Category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: In this session we will explore and demonstrate how Project Online and O365 can be used to manage NPD projects in an organisation. The demonstration will show how Project Online can…
Microsoft Project 2016 Essentials
Written on February 23, 2016, by Ben Howard
Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical Category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: Getting Started with Project Management and the Microsoft Toolset -What Is a Project? -What Is Project Management? -Who are Project Managers -Key Goals & Challenges Facing Projects -Tools, tools…
Microsoft® Project 2016 Essentials – Part Two
Written on February 22, 2016, by Ben Howard
Watch Session 3 Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 2 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: Getting Started with Project Management and the Microsoft® Toolset -What Is a Project? -What Is Project Management? -Who are Project Managers -Key Goals & Challenges Facing…
Microsoft® Project 2016 Essentials – Part One
Written on February 11, 2016, by Ben Howard
Watch Session 2 Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 2 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: Getting Started with Project Management and the Microsoft® Toolset -What Is a Project? -What Is Project Management? -Who are Project Managers -Key Goals & Challenges Facing Projects -Tools,…
Microsoft® Project 2016 Essentials – Part Three
Written on February 9, 2016, by Ben Howard
Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 2 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: Getting Started with Project Management and the Microsoft® Toolset -What Is a Project? -What Is Project Management? -Who are Project Managers -Key Goals & Challenges Facing Projects -Tools, tools and more…
Webinar: The Beginner’s Guide to Microsoft Project: Part 3
Written on April 29, 2015, by Ben Howard
Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical Project Management talent triangle category. If you are claiming this session, you must submit it to your MPUG Webinar History after it has been completed in its entirety. Event Description: Part 3 is all about communication…
Webinar: The Beginner’s Guide to Microsoft Project: Part 2
Written on April 22, 2015, by Ben Howard
Watch Session 3 Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical Project Management talent triangle category. If you are claiming this session, you must submit it to your MPUG Webinar History after it has been completed in its entirety. Event Description: In part…
Webinar: The Beginner’s Guide to Microsoft Project: Part 1
Written on April 22, 2015, by Ben Howard
*Please Note: Due to a technical issue with part 1 that resulted in it ending approximately 38 minutes into the session, we reorganized part 2 and 3 to include the remainder of part 1. This Webinar is not in the PMI® system. However, it is eligible for self-directed learning PMI® PDU credit. Watch Session 2 Event…
Webinar: Exporting and Importing Data into Project, Excel and Outlook
Written on March 11, 2015, by Ben Howard
Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical Project Management talent triangle category. If you are claiming this session, you must submit it to your MPUG Webinar History after it has been completed in its entirety. Event Description: Microsoft Project is a fabulous tool…
Webinar: New Year’s Resolution: Use Project Like a Pro!
Written on January 7, 2015, by Ben Howard
Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This webinar is eligible for 1 Category A PMI® PDUs in the Technical Project Management talent triangle category. If you are claiming this session, you must submit it to your MPUG Webinar History after it has been completed in its entirety. Event Description: Join Microsoft MVP Ben…