Live Webinar – October 18th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

In this seminar, we will dive into the Project Management Institute’s (PMI’s) PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition to examine the Development Approach and Life Cycle Performance Domain and how our understanding of it can be expanded through an exploration into Systems Engineering theory.

Learning Objectives:

• Examine the Development Approach and Life Cycle Performance Domain from the PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition
• Outline decision-making processes involved in development approach selections
• Describe insightful and helpful resources to aide in researching development approaches and life cycles

Presenter: Jeff Bongiovani (LinkedIn profile) is an Instructional Designer for Edwards Performance Solutions, creating and developing courses in Project Management and Systems Engineering. Previously, he had been a technology trainer for fifteen plus years, teaching courses in Microsoft Office, Adobe Suite, and several programming languages.

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MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

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Development Approach & Lifecycle Selection

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Live Webinar – October 11th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Excel’s dashboarding capabilities empower users to transform raw data into meaningful insights.

Excel’s dashboarding capabilities empower users to transform raw data into meaningful insights.

Whether for business reporting, financial analysis, or project management, Excel dashboards provide a user-friendly and visually impactful way to analyze, interpret, and communicate data effectively.

Building a dashboard requires data. That data can come from a variety of sources such as databases, CSV files and web pages. In many cases, that raw data is not “fit for purpose. It requires cleaning, merging and combining.

Does the phrase “it’s taking too long” describe how you feel about the time it takes to get your data into the right format for your reports?

Do you regularly perform repetitive time-consuming “data cleaning and transforming” tasks such as removing unnecessary rows and columns, filtering out data that you dont need, converting text to numbers or dates, splitting or merging columns, removing “weird” characters or combining files together?

Would you like to be able to do all the above with the click of a button? If the answer Is yes, you need Power Query (known as Get and Transform in Excel 2016 and later).

Dashboards:

• Understand the key principles of effective dashboard design
• Learn how to create interactive and visually appealing dashboards in Excel
• Discover best practices for data visualization
• Gain insight into how to use dashboards to drive business decisions

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This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

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Excel Power Query & Dashboards

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Live Webinar – October 4th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Excel’s dashboarding capabilities empower users to transform raw data into meaningful insights.

Whether for business reporting, financial analysis, or project management, Excel dashboards provide a user-friendly and visually striking way to analyze, interpret, and communicate data effectively.

Building a dashboard necessitates data, which can originate from various sources like databases, CSV files, and web pages. Often, this raw data isn’t “fit for purpose” and requires cleaning, merging, and combining.

Does the phrase “it’s taking too long” resonate with your feelings towards the time it takes to format your data for reports?

Are you frequently performing repetitive, time-consuming tasks like “data cleaning and transforming”?

This includes removing unnecessary rows and columns, filtering out unneeded data, converting text to numbers or dates, splitting or merging columns, eradicating odd characters, or combining files.

Would you appreciate being able to accomplish all of the above with a single click? If your answer is yes, you need Power Query, also known as Get and Transform in Excel 2016 and later.

Learning Objectives: (Part 2 – Power Query’s)

• Calculations without formulas – the power of The Query Editor Ribbon
• Combining data using Append & Merge Queries (and the difference between them)
• Convert a single text string into multiple rows
• Un“ the hidden gem and unsung hero of The Query Editor

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

Click to register for:
Excel Power Query & Dashboards

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Live Webinar – September 27th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Microsoft Project is a great tool for project schedule planning and tracking.

Where it stands out among many of its peers is in the ability to perform detailed man hour and cost tracking.

In this session MPUG will explore man hour and cost tracking by looking at related schedule options and settings, resource settings and task assignment tracking within the desktop application.

Finally, MPUG will explore a set of out of the box views and reports that aid in visualizing man hour and costs over the life of the project.

Learning Objectives:

• Explore the options and elements utilized for man hour and cost planning and tracking.
• Explore the schedule elements that contribute to man hour and cost planning and tracking.
• Overview the tracking techniques for task resource assignments that contribute to man hour and cost planning and tracking,
• Explore the views and reports available for man hour and cost planning and tracking.

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

Click to register for:
Man Hours & Cost Tracking Using Microsoft Project

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Live Webinar – September 20th, 2023 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Excel’s dashboarding capabilities empower users to transform raw data into meaningful insights.

Suitable for business reporting, financial analysis, or project management, Excel dashboards offer a user-friendly and visually impactful means to analyze, interpret, and communicate data effectively.

Building a dashboard requires data that can be sourced from various locations such as databases, CSV files, and web pages.

Often, this raw data isn’t immediately suitable for use, necessitating cleaning, merging, and combining processes.

1. Do you often find yourself saying, “It’s taking too long” when referring to the time spent formatting your data for reports?
2. Are you regularly tasked with repetitive and time-consuming data cleaning and transformation activities?

These might include removing unnecessary rows and columns, filtering out irrelevant data, converting text to numbers or dates, splitting or merging columns, removing unexpected characters, or combining files together.

Would you appreciate a solution that can perform all of these tasks with the click of a button? If your answer is yes, then Power Query (also known as Get and Transform in Excel 2016 and later) is what you need.

Learning Objectives:

• Import data into Excel from sources such as text files, web pages and databases
• Keep the imported data in sync with the source data using just two clicks
• The Power Query Editor – the key to data cleaning and transformation
• Save a ton of time – automate the cleaning and transformation process

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

Click to register for:
Excel Power Query & Dashboards

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Live Webinar – September 13th, 2020 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Guests Free (Open To The Public)

As a user of Jira Cloud, one of the common questions that ends up being asked is “I need to import X number of issues into Jira Cloud, how do I do that?”

The goal of this session is to cover some of the methods of getting data in into Jira Cloud as well as the inverse question “I need to get it out! What do I do?”

At the end of this session, you should have an understanding of some of the methods and approaches that can be used to get data into or out of a Jira Cloud instance the based on your level of access in the system; some of the advantages/limitations of the various approaches and provide you with some references of where to start.

Learning Objectives:

• What is Jira and how is it used in Project Management
• What kind of data can be imported into Jira
• What kind of data can be exported from Jira
• What are the advantages / limitations to importing data from certain systems into Jira
• What levels of access are needed in order to support Project Managers in getting the right data into and out of the system

If you are NOT ALREADY a member JOIN MPUG!

This event is for members only BUT… You can take one of the MPUG Certificated Masterclass (Usually 6 Category A PDUs) Or over 30 other Category A PDUs for free each year.  The $129 Per Year Membership Fee is a terrific value!

MPUG Membership includes:

1. MPUG’s Project Server and SharePoint certificated courses available to members
2. Over 30 other virtual PDU events per year
3. You can network with other MPUG (Microsoft Project Users Group) members at in person meetings and events.
4. Work with Microsoft MVPs in MS Project Project Server & SharePoint
5. And so much more …

Seriously consider joining MPUG if you work with SharePoint or Project & earn all the PDUs you will need as a member of MPUG!

Click to register for:
Jira Cloud: Getting Data In & Out Of Projects
(Including Microsoft Project)

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