Live Webinar – September 23, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EST
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour + Q & Category A 1 PDU / 1 CDU
Mpug Member Free – Guest $15.00 USD + $1.36 USD Fee

Best Practices for Using Project Server 2010 – Microsoft Project Server 2010 is a revolutionary software tool. Learn how to get the most out of this exciting release as Dale Howard, Microsoft Project MVP, presents recommended best practices for using Microsoft Project Professional 2010 and Project Web App. The focus on these best practices will be methodologies to better track and manage projects in Project Professional 2010 and to use the features in Project Web App more easily.

Dale will cover the following topics:

• Add a PWA Home link to the Quick Launch menu
• Lock the Start and Finish columns on the Tasks page
• Use the Load Summary Resource Assignments option in the Login dialog
• Use the Status Manager field
• Use the Assignment Owner field
• Using the View Availability page in PWA
• Customize the Microsoft Project 2010 user interface with Project Server commands Set up the Tasks page so users can see the WBS
• Rename the Task and Calendar items in a Project Site
• Enable versioning on the Project Documents library

This Project Server 2010 session benefits both PMs and Administrators.

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)

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)

Note: When registering for this event REMEMBER to answer the question “Are you requesting a PMI PDU for this event?”

Click to register for WebnLearn: Best Practices for Using Project Server 2010

One day Conference October 18th – Houston Texas
Registration By August 15th 2011 – Free
Registration After August 15th 2011 – $195 USD
Presented by : Acumen
Duration: up to 6 session Hours Credits: Up to 6 PDU Category C
NOTE: This is now a Category B activity
A Certificate will be provided to Attendees Indicating the sessions they attend

Summit Details: October 18, 2011
Hotel Sorella, 800 Sorella Court, Houston, TX

Our Keynote Speaker Dr. Dan Patterson, PMP is the founder and CEO of Acumen and is a recognized thought leader within the project management industry. Dan is also responsible for developing a now widely accepted integrated qualitative/quantitative approach to risk analysis through facilitated risk workshops. His depth of knowledge extends well beyond risk into schedule analytics and project optimization.

Come Early and join our Networking Breakfast and/or stay for our Wrap Up Cocktail Reception. We look forward to seeing you at some of our more popular presentations including – Cost Risk Analysis Method – Getting Beyond Compliance and into Real EVM Data Analysis Register early while space is still available.

Join Acumen for their first annual summit and project management conference! They are very excited to bring together the best and the brightest in project management for networking, learning, and discussion on improving planning quality and execution performance through project schedule, cost, risk and performance analytics.

Who Should Attend

• Current and prospective Fuse users
• Project managers
• Planners
• Schedulers
• Risk Analysts
• Cost Analysts
• Project Controls Managers

Key Summit Topics

• Acumen’s S1<S5 Schedule Maturity: Learn more about how our schedule maturity framework is transforms projects
• Gain insight into schedule, cost, risk, and earned value best practices
• Understand schedule compliance standards and methods for ensuring your projects are correctly prepared for review
• Learn new methods for cost and schedule integration techniques and the importance behind joining the two
• Hear how other Primavera, Microsoft Project, and Deltek users are benefiting from Fuse
• Attend the official launch of Fuse 360, the next generation for project analysis software from Acumen

Click to see the PDF of the Conference Summary & Summit Overview

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Initiating, Planning

Knowledge Areas: 6 – Time 7 – Cost 11 – Risk 12 – Procurement

• 6.5 Develop Schedule
• 7.3 Control Costs
• 11.4 Perform Quantitative Risk Analysis
• 12.3 Administer Procurements

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to register for Acumen’s First Annual Project Management Summit

Live Webinar July 27, 2011 11:00 am – 12:00 pm EST
Duration: 1 hour live webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category B Free
Presented by PROJECTinsight (Metafuse Inc)

You’ve heard the term before and may even have used them in your office. However, do we really understand how to create them so that the BUSINESS users can understand them?

Review the pros and cons of using use-cases within your organization or within your department.

Evaluate good and bad examples of use cases and when certain approaches work better than others.

Click to register for Creating Use Cases

Live Webinar – June 29, 12:00-1:00 PM EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU Free
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating
Innovation and creativity are business buzz words for sure! Even though they conjure up visions of verbose, empty-suite executives clamoring on and on, they are still critical.

At the end of the day, your business grows by entering new markets, adding new products and reacting to changes that impact your products or customers. All which are empowered and amplified by innovation and creativity.

A product portfolio is like a well. The deeper you have to go to find interested customers, the more expensive it gets, and the more work you have to put in to getting business.

So if you can find new products or quickly locate new customers, you continue to get the “richness” of margin and easy customers from the beginning stages of the well.

This session pulls information from multiple sources including,

• The Difference by Scott Page,
• Wisdom of Crowds by Jim Surdoweiki,
• Innovation at the Verge by Joel Barker,
• Product Management Strategy by Rebecca Henderson,
• The Agile Manifesto and
• The Edison Product Factory

to provide pragmatic models and interesting new ways to help you find new products or customers through innovation and creativity.

Presentation Agenda:

• Innovation and product development theory
• Moving from theory to reality
• Identity vs. cognitive diversity
• Team dysfunctions
• Agile Manifesto tied to innovation and creativity
• The Verge and how to embrace change
• Testing multiple small ideas
• Putting it all together

Presenter: David Mantica (LinkedIn profile) – David Mantica has more than 16 years of experience in business to business continuing education in executive, product management, marketing, and operations capacities. He has product managed the initiation, development and delivery of more than 300 instructor-led and live, online training courses, covering topics in the software development life cycle, IT, telecommunications, finance, healthcare IT, and marketing industries. David was instrumental in the development and delivery of the training industry’s first voice over IP (VOIP)-enabled live, instructor-led training course for public consumption.

Click to register for Product Theory: Real-World Innovation and Creativity Enablement

Online Webinar
Presented by: PmCentersUSA (REP 1016)
Duration 30 Min Credits: 0.5 PDU Cat A Free

This webinar explains the origin of projects, and how a project portfolio is created in alignment with an organizational vision. The portfolio should also created in relation to the future state of the organization and the corresponding organizational strategy.

This talk will also discuss the various reasons for doing projects and effective portfolio techniques to help ensure the right projects are selected. This webinar will also provide you with key questions that should be asked when starting a new project.

Subject Matter Expert: Joseph A. Lukas, PMP®, PE, CCE

Joe Lukas (LinkedIn profile) is Vice-President of PMCentersUSA.Joe has been involved in project management for over 30 years and has worked in engineering, manufacturing, construction, project controls, estimating and contracting, and has been a Program and Project Manager supporting world-wide programs.

Registration to the PMCentersUSA site is required.

Click here to view a recorded version of this opportunity.

Live Webinar – June 7, 12:00 pm -1:30 pm EST
Registration Ends June 6th 2011
Offered by MPUG WebnLearn UK ( REP 1369 )
Duration 1 hour 1 PDU / 1 CDU Free

There’s a lot of talk about using Microsoft Project with SharePoint – SharePoint Project and Portfolio Management systems, publishing projects to SharePoint, Project Server and SharePoint, third-party tools, add-ons, synchronization.

Well it’s true – SharePoint is the wave of the future! But how does Microsoft Project fit in?

Do I really need all these extra tools and add-ons? Can I just use Microsoft Project to connect with SharePoint? Do I have to have an EPM system to take advantage of the SharePoint revolution?

As usual, the Project Talk guys are going to break it down to the basics and give you the no-nonsense, no-hype answers to your questions and explain the real-dealeo on how you can take advantage of the awesome collaboration capabilities of Microsoft Project and SharePoint. Join us!

Project Talk is an interactive ‘radio show’ and web-session with real-time demonstrations of common project management and scheduling issues and how to address them using Microsoft Project and other tools.

If you’d like to participate in the show, ask a question or offer a comment, simply type it into the Q&A Tool, then raise your hand using the ‘raise your hand’ tool, and un-mute your microphone so you can join the conversation!

Anyone who participates live on the show will receive a stylish MPUG T-Shirt or other great prize!

Click to register for Project Talk – The Live Web-Radio Talk Show from MPUG – Project & SharePoint – ‘What’s The Deal?’