Where Project Managers and Microsoft® Meet

  Event Description: Ira Brown, a recognized Microsoft Project expert, will deliver this fun and informative presentation that will provide you with an understanding of the automation capabilities of Microsoft Project. The session, which is geared toward the Microsoft Project business user rather than a technical programmer, will provide practical, real-world illustrations for solving the common challenges a user faces when working with Microsoft Project. Topics include: • Recording and editing basic macros • Assigning a macro to a button…

  Event Description: Microsoft Project is a scheduling tool, and the schedule of every project is based on one or more calendars. In this high-energy webinar, Dale Howard will discuss the following: • Configuring the Standard calendar in your Microsoft Project schedule • Creating new calendars • Setting the working schedule for each calendar where appropriate • Specifying the Project calendar and the Nonworking Time calendar • Specifying PTO on Resource calendars • Using a Task calendar to override the…

  Event Description: Modern work management is one of the top priorities of every organization. Project for the web is Microsoft’s most recent cloud-based offering to help people work together more effectively. Intuitiveness is part of the new offering, but to know its power you need to go beyond and extend it. I will demystify process of extending it using Power platform to simplify work management and making you smarter. So, how does your organization simplify work management?   Project…

  Event Description: Instead of trying to decide whether you should be using Microsoft Project or SharePoint for project management, why not use both! By leveraging the Microsoft Project Sync in SharePoint, you can get the best of both worlds. Microsoft Project can be overwhelming and difficult for inexperienced project managers to update their work. This can lead to problems in user adoption and wasted resources on expensive, unused licenses. SharePoint seamlessly syncs with Microsoft Project, extending the project management…

  Event Description: Microsoft Project can be turned into an estimating tool with continuously improving data. You can copy these features from a schedule template found here, for instance. Making schedules for specific projects from a template provides consistent schedule structure and vocabulary, accumulating lessons learned, and estimating data. The features enable two techniques, 1) analogous estimating, which is scaling parts of a schedule or an entire project estimate, and 2) parametric estimating, which is scaling the number of items…