Where Project Managers and Microsoft® Meet

Event Description: In today's mobile and project-centric work environment, the ability to coordinate multiple projects with distributed teams and making high-level strategic decisions based upon consolidated project progress, risk and resource usage information is critical. When it comes to project management, every individual, team, and organization has unique needs. Microsoft's vision for project management is to enable individuals and teams to choose the tool that is the best fit for their specific project while still delivering the visibility that their…

Event Description: Think managing up is just brown-nosing in disguise? Think again. Managing up in projects done well will bring clarity, commitment, ownership, and support your project needs to meet time lines, get resources, and nail project objectives. In this webinar we will explore how to work with higher ranking stakeholders in way that gets results and creates wins all around. Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDUs in the Leadership…

Event Description: The schedule is baselined and it’s time to start your project. Correctly implementing your project means it must be monitored and controlled using an accurate status gathered from your team. But, where do you enter the status in Microsoft Project? You could use the standard fields, task forms, and task usage views, but what if you could combine them into a custom view, providing one place to update your project? In this webinar, we will discuss the importance…

Event Description: Project Online provides many powerful reporting tools and is a treasure trove of information.  However, many organizations have other data sources that affect or otherwise influence the data from Project.  It is common to have other internal or external data sources that, when combined with Project data provides a richer source of information.  While the core of the data might be from Project Online there may be other data sources that can be combined to present a fuller…

MPUG VENDOR SHOWCASE SESSION* *This is an MPUG Vendor Session. Presenter will discuss Microsoft Project add-ons and how they can streamline the integration of various applications and Microsoft Project in a no pressure, stress-free environment. These add-ons are not out-of-the-box functionality and require product trial or purchase. Event Description: Project Widgets is pleased to showcase several tools that extend the value of Microsoft Project by successfully addressing several common program and project management challenges. These solutions focus on real world issues faced by…