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Estimating Annual Budgets using Project Server and Online
Event Description: Project Server/Online does a great job managing projects and resources, however, did you know that it can also help manage costs and be used for rolling up department budgets for next year? This topic will look at stretching the PMO and PWA capabilities and use it for managing costs and planning budgets using resource loads. In this session, we look at using Day-to-Day or Operations Schedules to capture the complete resource load of resources. For example, the DBA…
Find out more »Ideation within Project Online
Event Description: Take your Project Online environment to the next level by creating a mechanism to capture all the great project ideas from anyone in your organization. Sort and order your project ideas to prioritize. If Ideas are approved, pull them into Project Online as projects automatically! Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 0.5 PMI® PDUs in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Presenter Info: Tom Henry is the PPM Practice Manager…
Find out more »The PMO Lifecycle – Building, Running & Shutting Down – Organizational Change Management: What is the role of the PMO Manager?
Event Description: Are you struggling with project adoption and unsure what to do about it? Does your organization have an Organizational Change Management (OCM) framework? Are you a PMO Manager and don’t understand your role in the Change Management? If this is you, come and join Bill Dow, PMP as he walks you through the role of the PMO Manager in the Organizational Change Management process. Not only does Bill cover the PMO Manager role, but he also dives into…
Find out more »The Innovative PPM World – How Microsoft is Changing the Project Management Game
Event Description: During Microsoft Ignite 2018, the organization presented a large number of great new features that can be leveraged by Project Managers. During this webinar, Erik van Hurck (long time author at MPUG and Microsoft MVP), will guide you through some of these new features and will describe use cases and quick wins for organizations that would like to adopt the new features. At the end of the webinar there will be time for your questions. Project Management Institute…
Find out more »Data Analysis Using Project with Excel
Event Description: As a project manager with the State of Maryland Department of Social Services, I was tasked with clearing up case backlogs for Medical Assistance and Food Supplement Payments. In order to break the yearly cycle of backlogs recurring, I was not only able to advocate using Microsoft Project, but helped establish an ongoing method of analysis across multiple projects. I’d like to share my real world experiences and the techniques I employed within Project as well as Excel…
Find out more »Performance Based Leadership
Project Managers need to be able to lead a team to achieve results on time, and on budget.
Find out more »Forecast Scheduling for Real-World Projects (Project Online 2018)
Event Description: This presentation is on the NEW textbook ‘Forecast Scheduling with Project Online 2018’ by Eric Uyttewaal. The author invented the 'Principle of Dynamic Scheduling' stating: If one thing changes in your project, you should have to change only a single cell in your project schedule. The scheduling engine will then recalculate the rest of the schedule and forecast finish and total cost. Using this principle, you can minimize your effort when updating schedules, which is hard during the…
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