Live Webinar – May 13th, 2020 12:00 pm – 12:45 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Join Raphael Santos for a hands-on session where you’ll learn how to use custom visuals to take your PPM reports to the next level!

During this presentation Raphael will build a report with three visuals that can greatly improve the way Executives, PMO members, and Project Managers can see, evaluate, and interpreter their project, resource, and portfolio data; providing them with more accurate user-friendly information so they can make better decisions.

Presenter: Raphael Santos (LinkedIn profile) is the author of Excel 2013 – Módulo Intermediário (Portuguese Edition).  As a PPM Consultant, with deep expertise in providing Microsoft Project & Project Server solutions, he has worked in several projects to implement PPM tools, including countries in Latin America and Africa. With more than 10 years of experience in teaching users the use Project Management tools in a more productive way, Raphael runs a personal blog to share ideas and solutions for the Project Management community.

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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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Visual Awesomeness:
Enhance Your Project Online Power BI Reports With Custom Visuals

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Live Webinar – April 29th, 2020 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Due to the positive response to MPUG’s previous session regarding the use of macros in Microsoft Project, Ira Brown, a recognized Microsoft Project expert, will build on his last demonstration to show you even more exciting ways that macros can be used to automate this application.

The session, which is geared toward the Microsoft Project business user rather than a technical programmer, will provide practical, real-world illustrations for solving the common challenges a user faces when working with Microsoft Project.

Topics include:

• Recording and editing basic macros
• Assigning a macro to a button in the ribbon
• Creating a “zoom in/zoom out” macro to adjust text size in your project
• Creating automation to count the number of displayed tasks after a filter has been applied
• Creating automation to increase or decrease the work for a task by a specific percentage
• Creating a project status report in Microsoft Word
• Distributing your macros and custom ribbon to others

Attendees will receive a copy of the presentation materials and all of the sample macros created during this webinar!

Presenter: Ira Brown (LinkedIn profile) is the President and CEO of Project Widgets, a Microsoft Project Partner specializing in add-on products, implementation services, integration, training, and custom software development for Microsoft Project. He is a is a recognized Microsoft Project expert with over twenty years of experience.

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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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Beyond Macros Revisited:
Automating Microsoft Project For Non-Techies Part 2

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Live Webinar – April 15th, 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 – Members only event

Microsoft Project can be turned into an estimating tool with continuously improving data. You can copy these features from a schedule template found here, for instance.

Making schedules for specific projects from a template provides consistent schedule structure and vocabulary, accumulating lessons learned, and estimating data.

The features enable two techniques:

1. Analogous estimating, which is scaling parts of a schedule or an entire project estimate, &
2. Parametric estimating, which is scaling the number of items a detail tasks produces.

The download template also illustrates:

1. How to include a risk reserve and estimating uncertainty buffer &
2. How to produce an Excel report with tabs for tasks recently completed, underway, and coming soon (Kanban).

Presenter: Oliver Gildersleeve, PMP, MCTS , (LinkedIn profile) PMP, MCTS, is lead planner on a Veterans Affairs 5 year major initiative. He co-founded an MPUG chapter and was president for 4 years. He teaches advanced scheduling for PMI chapters: San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, and Monterey. He also teaches for San Francisco State and for UC Santa Cruz extensions.

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!

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Analogous & Parametric Estimating Schedule Template

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Live Webinar – March 25th, 2020 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  .5 Hour  .5 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Instead of trying to decide whether you should be using Microsoft Project or SharePoint for Project Management…

Why Not Use Both!

By leveraging the Microsoft Project Sync in SharePoint, you can get the best of both worlds.

Microsoft Project can be overwhelming and difficult for inexperienced project managers to update their work. This can lead to problems in user adoption and wasted resources on expensive, unused licenses.

SharePoint seamlessly syncs with Microsoft Project, extending the project management capabilities of both applications.

In this webinar you will learn how to:

• Integrate Microsoft Project with SharePoint Templates.
• Manage projects with multiple team members through a single Microsoft Project license.
• Get summary reports of all projects with executive dashboards and individual reports.

Presenter: Alan Morgan (LinkedIn profile)  is a project management consultant with BrightWork. Alan is a senior IT professional and an accomplished business manager with an outstanding track record in project management, consultancy and IT software solutions.

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:
Leveraging SharePoint With The Microsoft Project Sync

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Live Webinar – March 18th, 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 – Members only event

Modern work management is one of the top priorities of every organization. Project for the web is Microsoft’s most recent cloud-based offering to help people work together more effectively.

Intuitiveness is part of the new offering, but to know its power you need to go beyond and extend it.

Sai will demystify process of extending it using Power platform to simplify work management and making you smarter.

So, how does your organization simplify work management?

Presenter: Sai Prasad, (LinkedIn profile) PMP^®, PMI-SP^®, MVP MCTS Project, Senior Manager,Learning & Development Cognizant Technology Solutions India Pvt. Ltd  is a Champion of PM from PMI India, & was awarded the Champion of the Quarter (Q4 – 2012) and Delivery Excellence Award (2011-2012, 2012-2013) from PMI India. Sai was also named his company’s Global Trainer of the Year . A master trainer, he spent 13,000-plus hours in mentoring, coaching, training 9000-plus practitioners on project management topics ranging from project management concepts, project risk management, project scheduling, Microsoft Office Project® to software estimation techniques.  Sai is also the editor of the project management book, Forecast Scheduling with Project 2010  & the President of the MPUG India Chennai chapter.

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:
Make Project For The Web Smarter

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Live Webinar – March 11th, 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 – Members only event

Microsoft Project is a scheduling tool, and the schedule of every project is based on one or more calendars. In this high-energy webinar, Dale Howard will discuss the following:

1. Configuring the Standard calendar in your Microsoft Project schedule
2. Creating new calendars
3. Setting the working schedule for each calendar where appropriate
4. Specifying the Project calendar and the Nonworking Time calendar
5. Specifying PTO on Resource calendars
6. Using a Task calendar to override the project schedule
7. Understanding how calendars impact the Duration, Start, and Finish of every task

Although the final topic seems to be very simple and straight forward, Dale guarantees that this topic will surprise you.

In fact, regarding the final topic, Dale says, “Always trust the schedule in Microsoft Project. And when the schedule of a task does not seem to make sense, the underlying cause is almost always a calendar.”

Presenter:  Dale Howard (LinkedIn profile)  MVP, MCT, MCTS, CTT, MCITP, MVP, MCT, MCTS, CTT, MCITP Director of Education at Sensei Project Solutions.  Dale manages educational services and is an enterprise project management trainer/consultant with more than 15 years of training experience. Dale volunteers many hours each week answering user questions in the various Project news groups in the Microsoft Communities. Dale received the prestigious Microsoft Project Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in 2004 for his expertise with the software and for his contributions to the user communities.

Dale is an author of many great MS Project books including:

• Ultimate Study Guide: Foundations Microsoft Project 2013
• What’s New Microsoft Project 2013
• Implementing and Administering Microsoft Project Server 2010 | Second Edition
• Ultimate Study Guide: Foundations Microsoft Project 2010 (Exam 70-178)

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:
Understanding Calendars & Scheduling In Microsoft Project

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