Where Project Managers and Microsoft® Meet
November 2018
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 »December 2018
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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