As a MS Project MVP for the last 15 years, I am passionate about sharing knowledge and helping people maximize their project to portfolio management capabilities with technology, especially when they are using MS Project. I’ve seen a growing set of questions surface regarding Master Projects, so with MPUG’s help, I’m looking to share some…

Microsoft Office 365 Planner, announced in September 2015, is an application that “offers people a simple and highly visual way to organize teamwork. Planner makes it easy for your team to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files (using Office 365 Groups), chat about what you’re working on and get updates on progress.”…

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: Most organizations today are delivering both agile and traditional projects within their project portfolio. In many of these cases, the “portfolio” isn’t a single portfolio at all; software/product development is managing their…

Semaphore is produced by Smartlogic.  Product Summary: Smartlogic’s Semaphore is an enterprise grade semantic platform that allows organizations to realize the business value of their information. Semaphore brings structure to the unstructured, scales to manage organizational volumes, is built upon semantic standards and leverages Linked Open Vocabularies. Semaphore’s model-driven, rule-based semantic approach solves complex business problems that…

Last October, a few months after Ken Winell had joined Tough Mudder as vice president of technology, he found himself wading through the mud, risking electrical shock and pulling himself over walls in what has become the company’s wildly popular signature extreme obstacle course. Some projects may feel just as extreme to their participants. Winell…