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| December 23, 2008 | Keeping Users of Microsoft® Office Project Connected. | ||
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We're putting together a guide to project management wisdom, which we'll make available to members early in 2009. Submit your advice, tips, experiences, or formulas for success to editor@mpug.com. Be sure to include your name, city, state and organization! Put "PM Wisdom" in the subject line. MPUG WebNLearns 1/9/2009 Tips and Tricks 1/14/2009 Project Portfolio 1/20/2009 Baselining, Tracking, and Reporting 1/28/2009 Project Server and SQL Reporting Services 1/30/2009 SharePoint Dashboards MPUG Chapter Meetings 1/9/2009 Twin Cities 1/14/2009 St. Louis 1/14/2009 Dallas 1/21/2009 Toronto 1/21/2009 Baltimore-DC Metro 2/24/2009 Sydney Jobs Project Server Administrator, Global Payments, Atlanta, GA Project Administrator Intern, Staples, Framingham, MA Project Manager, Motorola, Flowood, MS Log in with your MPUG membership to gain access to the Career Center. Industry Events Optimizing Project Schedule with Limited Budget & Resources Using Microsoft Office Project 2007, webinar, 1/12/2009 Project Tracking & Reporting using Microsoft Office Project 2007, webinar, 1/13/2009 PMI AGC 12th International Seminars, Conference and Exhibition, Bahrain, 1/27/2009 Send your event details to editor@mpug.com. MPUG ResourcesMPUG Home Join MPUG Microsoft Office Project 2007 site MPUG 1143 Northern Blvd., #315 Clarks Summit, PA 18411
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 The 30-second ReportBy Sam Huffman, PMP Reports, Views, Tables and Visual Reports all give you great options for communicating project information. They also require time to explore and configure. But there is one reporting tool within Microsoft Project designed to give you on-demand status, that requires no configuration and that's perfect for keeping historical information...  Sign Up for Your New MPUG Membership and Receive Two Free Gifts! Be among the next 100 people to join MPUG and you'll get two free gifts!
 Chapter Spotlight: 4 Questions with Houston's Vicki Eaker Vicki Eaker with MPUG's Houston Chapter currently works at Shell Trading via her employer Sogeti USA LLC. She's the application readiness project manager for the Global Shell Trading Vista Migration Project. Here Eaker answers four questions... In your experience, what tends to be the hardest project management challenge to eradicate? Balancing “the real story” by communicating project risks or challenges transparently to high-level stakeholders, while still maintaining the appropriate perspective on the state of the project and preventing stakeholders' “fears” from getting out of hand. Managing up, while managing down is always my favorite challenge... Featured Event: 1/30/2009 Twin Cities WebNLearn: Building SharePoint Dashboards Everything in SharePoint is a list, which works great when you're managing the sea of data needed for true team collaboration. But, how do you present this data in a format that provides project status to your sponsors? This LiveMeeting will give project managers the tools needed to turn SharePoint data into a straightforward, accessible dashboard. You will learn how to display Gantts, graphs, and usable data from SharePoint and other sources to enable your sponsors to make better-informed decisions. Presented by Digineer's Larry Christofaro.
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