Live Webinar – October 31st, 2018 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm EDT
Activity Type: Education – Course or Training  1 Hour  1 PDU
Provider: MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

Take your Project Online environment to the next level by creating a mechanism to capture all the great project ideas from anyone in your organization.

Sort and order your project ideas to prioritize. If Ideas are approved, pull them into Project Online as projects automatically!

Presenter: Tom Henry, MCTS/MCIPT (LinkedIn profile) is the PPM Practice Manager at Projility, and a technical subject matter expert in implementing MS Project, Project Server and SharePoint. A Microsoft Certified IT Practitioner with multiple Microsoft product certifications , he is responsible for deploying Microsoft Project, Project Online, Project Sever and SharePoint together with associated technologies and business processes. Tom has in-depth knowledge of Microsoft’s O365 platform and cloud based solutions such as Project Online. Tom received his BSc in Comput¬er Science from Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom. He is also one of only a handful of certified facilitators in the US for the Microsoft PPM Customer Immersion Experience (CIE) Program.

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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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Ideation Within Project Online

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Live Webinar – October 17th, 2018 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

Project Server/Online does a great job managing projects and resources, however, did you know that it can also help manage costs and be used for rolling up department budgets for next year? This topic will look at stretching the PMO and PWA capabilities and use it for managing costs and planning budgets using resource loads.

In this session, we look at using Day-to-Day or Operations Schedules to capture the complete resource load of resources.

For example, the DBA may be working 50% of their time on projects and the other 50% on operational activities.

Michael will look at how this resource load can also be captured and then use schedules for working up budgets in the upcoming years.

Managing costs and budgets uses project sand operational schedules to plan out and capture this year’s activities making it easier to plan for next year’s schedules.

Several companies have used these operational schedules and saved millions of dollars each year when they discovered resources invoices are billing wrong projects and budgeting next year’s operational budget. Basically, we are stretching the PMO capabilities.

Presenter: Michael Wharton (LinkedIn profile) PMP, MVP, MBA, , MCT, MCTS, MCITP, MCSD, MCSE+I, MCDBA is a Project/SharePoint Consultant whose passion to improve project management processes. Michael has implemented project server in over twenty-five PMOs, and is the past President & Director of Programs for the NC Piedmont PMI, board member of the Triad SQL Server User Group, Triad Developers Guild and Enterprise Architect Roundtable. Check out Michael’s site at MyProjectExpert.com.

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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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Estimating Annual Budgets
Using Project Server & Online

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Live Webinar – October 10th, 2018 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

With many people now using Project through Office 365 or Project Online in conjunction with Project Desktop, the need for reporting, dashboards and / or editing multiple projects is growing.

Come learn about how to use both Project Online (Enterprise) along with Project Desktop to ensure that you are getting the most out of Project reporting, editing or managing large and growing programs.

Presenter:  Tim Runcie – (LinkedIn profile @Advisicon) MVP in Project Server, President of Advisicon Tim has over 25 years of experience in information systems and 12 years of construction project management experience and is an established author, having written over 20 books Including:

• Making Effective Business Decisions Using Microsoft Project – This presentation focuses on some of the great information from this valuable book!
  
• Managing Projects with Microsoft Project 2010 & Project Server (Best Practices in Managing Projects with Microsoft Project)
• Microsoft Access in a SharePoint World
• Microsoft Business Intelligence: Executive Dashboards and Reporting with Microsoft Tools

As President ofAdvisicon, he has guided organizations & corporations in successfully managing competing initiatives using scarce resources, fixed budgets and interconnected schedules. Tim is particularly adept at establishing project methodologies that are adopted into the project management culture of organizations and creating custom tools to expedite and automate the project management process.

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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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Best Practices In Using Master & Sub Projects
With Project & Project Online

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Live Webinar – October 3rd, 2018 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

Join Sai Prasad in this informative session & at the end of this session, you will be able to:

1. Assign tasks to team resources rather than individual resources,
2. See demand versus capacity for a team and want team members to self-assign themselves to tasks in Project Online.

Achieve these objectives by reviewing how to:

• Create team resources
• Create actual resources
• Self assign tasks

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!

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Working With Teams In Project Online

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Live Webinar – September 19th, 2018 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

Practically every IT organization does annual budgeting for major projects and operational efforts, and then monthly forecasting using a cost breakdown like Labor, Hardware, Software, T&E, Contingency, etc., and then they use a scheduling tool like Microsoft Project with detail tasks which isn’t organized that way.

Often the initial budget is prepared long before a task level plan even exists, sometimes before a project manager is assigned!

In this webinar Rich Murphy will address a method of solving this problem which is consistent with an organizations normal processes, essentially integrating spreadsheet based financial planning with a detail schedule.

The presentation will explain the benefits of having the budgeting, forecasting, and actual cost tracking process configured to suit corporate accounting while being able to integrate with the detail schedule planning and progress tracking approaches used by project managers.

This approach can be used with traditional “waterfall” project scheduling and techniques such as Agile.

Presenter: Rich Murphy has 35+ years of experience in the project management, commercial software development, and engineering fields. He began as the project controls engineer for a $4 billion power plant engineering and construction project. Since 1980, he has led the development of many leading commercial project management software systems. After Microsoft’s acquisition of one of his systems, Rich joined Microsoft, and participated in the development of Project Professional and Project Server. He was the original Solution CEO for Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management system. In 2002, Rich & his team formed EPK Group LLC, to build a comprehensive portfolio and resource management system based on Microsoft’s platforms. Their new product eventually became the EPM Live system. Rich continues as an independent consultant assisting clients with PPM systems. Currently he gives presentations and training sessions.

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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Integrating “Top down” Budgeting & Financial Tracking
With Microsoft Project

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Live Webinar – July 24th, 2018 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 – Non Members Free

Note: This Is NOT A Members only event

*This is a FREE MPUG Vendor Session. Presenter will discuss Microsoft Project add-ons and how they can streamline the integration of various applications and Microsoft Project in a no pressure, stress-free environment. These add-ons are not out-of-the-box functionality and require product trial or purchase.

WBS Schedule Pro is a Windows-based project management software application designed to be a feature-rich yet easy-to-use tool for planning and managing projects.

The presentation includes the recommended approach for using WBS Schedule Pro to plan and manage projects, including:

• How to use a WBS Chart for planning, how to create a schedule and define the critical path using a Network Chart and …
• How to use the many additional features within WBS Schedule Pro to plan any project.

Other areas of discussion will describe how to customize the various charts in the software, how to use WBS Schedule Pro with Microsoft Project and how to Import/Export data.

Also included throughout the presentation will be many shortcuts and valuable tips for using WBS Schedule Pro effectively.

Presenter:  Jim Spiller (LinkedIn profile) is President of Critical Tools, Inc, makers of the WBS Schedule Pro software. Jim has been a part of the Project Management Software business since 1985. For the past 20+ years with Critical Tools, Jim helped design and develop what is now called WBS Schedule Pro.

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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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Using WBS Schedule Pro

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