Live Webinar – July 7th, 2014 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
This Event Free To Mpug Members & The General Public

• There have been several studies on complexity in projects and programs recently.
• Eric Feels that, inherently, programs are not more complex than projects.

What is different is that the investment is much larger, the stakes higher, the amount of data staggering, the dependencies cross-project, the stakeholders sharper and the media never far away.

What makes programs seem more complex than projects is the lack of program management techniques and software applications to schedule, monitor and manage them.

Eric will provide insight in the bleeding edge of how these techniques and tools are currently being adapted to the challenge of managing audacious programs.

Presenter: Eric Uyttewaal (LinkedIn profile) author of the new book Forecast Scheduling with Microsoft Project 2010  founded ProjectPro that specializes in Microsoft Project and Project Server. Eric has been involved in large programs at the Canadian Forces, IBM Cognos, Northrop Grumman, SanDisk and Investors Group. He was President of the PMI Ottawa Chapter in 1997. Eric is president of the MPUG-Ottawa chapter. Eric received awards from MPUG in 2012 (Community leader), from Microsoft since 2010 (MVP) and from PMI in 2009 (‘Significant Contributions to the Scheduling Profession’).

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 Making Your Program Feel Like a Project

Live Webinar July 8th, 2015 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – $20 USD PDU
Presented by: Solutions Cube Group (REP 2451)

Are your process improvement efforts targeting the right problems and taking advantage of the right opportunities?

This webinar is the second in a three part series series on “Process Improvement” by Solutions Cube. Although this module is a part of the series – each module in the series can be taken individually.

This is a question many teams ask & struggle to answer. Use of the Brown Paper Process Modeling is a powerful way for organizations to gain alignment on end to end processes targeted for improvements and the characteristics of how, when and where work is performed.

• The Brown Paper Process Model incorporates real physical representations of every information flow and hand off required to complete an end to end process.
• The Brown Paper Model is perfect tool to provide focus on assessment activities to identify strengths in what we do today and process break downs to overcome.

Developing the Brown Paper Process Model teaches techniques needed to identify how work is performed and pinpoint process breakdowns to be addressed in improvement activities.

Attendees learn how to transform a logical process model – depicting what the processes are into a physical model representing how work is actually performed. They will learn how to lead an assessment activity for uncovering the value add as well as inconsistencies and / or failure points the current environment.

In this 1 hour in-depth webinar participants learn:

• The difference between Logical and Physical models and when to use each
• How to transform a logical process model into a physical process model
• How to structure and lead an assessment activity to uncover valuable process strengths to retain and pinpoint opportunities repair or replace process breakdowns
• The benefits a Brown Paper Process model provides for ongoing team education

EARN 1 PDU after viewing this webinar

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Click to purchase Developing the Brown Paper Process Model: Process Improvement Series 2 of 3

Live Webinar – July 8th, 2014 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Members only event

With Project 2013, Microsoft introduced the new Reports feature, which gives Project Managers an entire set of reports and dashboards.

However, sometimes it can be hard for you to create a simple, intuitive one-page status reports.

Through the combination of Microsoft Project, Access and Visio, this event offers a new way for Project Managers in creating beautiful, one-page status reports for their projects.

Main points for the presentation:

• Knowing how to export data from Project to Access and how to keep it updated
• Knowing how to import data from Access to Visio
• Knowing how to create links between the imported data and shapes in Visio
• Knowing how to convert the imported data into icons in Visio

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.

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 Create A One-Page Status Report With Project, Access & Visio

Online Webinar – Recorded April 9th 2013
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU – Free PDU

In any project development and delivery methodology there is a need to ensure the proper communication of status to the project’s stakeholders.

The need for this communication does not go away when utilizing an Agile approach, but it does change.

In this web seminar we discuss the purpose of communicating status and how best to achieve that expected value through a different mechanism.

Presenter: Bill Gaiennie (LinkedIn profile) has more than 16 years of working in the software development field as a developer, project manager, ScrumMaster, and a training coach. Bill is an accomplished, experienced Agile trainer,with 5 years of Agile experience effectively leading product and project teams in a wide array of Agile management and methodology based initiatives. He is currently an accredited member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and is active in the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance communities.

Click to register for Communicating Agile Project Status to Executive Management