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Speaker(s): Ludovic Hauduc, General Manager; Microsoft Corporation
September 15
Ludo Haudoc, General Manager of the Project Business Unit, will review key business and technology milestones for Microsoft Project 2007 in the last year. During his address, Mr. Haudoc will illustrate how Project is helping customers and partners today with project and portfolio management to achieve significant business value and success with their investments in Microsoft Project 2007. In this session, customers and partners who have delivered innovative solutions built on Microsoft Enterprise Project Management 2007 technologies will also be recognized with the Microsoft Project Conference 2009 Awards.
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Speaker(s): Chris Capossela, Senior Vice President; Microsoft Corporation
September 16
In this address, Microsoft Senior Vice President, Chris Capossela will unveil the core capabilities and features of the upcoming release – Microsoft Project 2010, including demonstrations not publicly revealed of Microsoft Project Professional 2010 and Microsoft Project Server 2010. Mr. Capossela will also convey how the new line up of the Microsoft Office 2010 release, which includes Microsoft Project 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Microsoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Exchange 2010, is built to improve on the essentials people rely on today as well as to anticipate what they will need tomorrow.
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Speaker(s): Professor Gary Hamel, Consultant and Management Educator
September 17
Recently ranked as the world’s most influential business thinker by The Wall Street Journal, and called “the world’s leading expert on business strategy” by Fortune magazine, Professor Gary Hamel will illustrate how emerging technologies, if properly harnessed, can help progressive organizations become more adaptable, more innovative and more inspiring places to work. In his provocative and practical presentation, Professor Hamel will express how companies have to retool their management models from top to bottom, including the way they plan, budget, allocate, coordinate, motivate and measure to sufficiently meet new challenges – challenges that will define competitive success and failure in the years to come.
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Speaker(s): Glenn Searle, Portfolio-Engineering Inc. | 200 - Intermediate Level
Your organization has come a long way with its practice of formal project scheduling and yet you continue to miss the forecasted date of important milestones and project schedules continue to slip.
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If this sounds familiar, it may be a good time to take a step back and consider the benefits of some of the more advanced but less practiced tools and techniques of project scheduling.
In this fast-paced presentation, we will:
- Review techniques for creating a schedule performance baseline that is free from contingency planning
- Understand why deterministic scheduling through Critical Path Management (CPM) is almost certain to produce a schedule that you will not meet
- Consider the often over-looked benefits of Program Review and Evaluation Technique (PERT) and a demonstration of how MS Project can be customized to calculate schedule probability
- Explore how the powerful Monte Carlos Analysis stochastic technique (supported by MS Project through third party add-ons) is enabled by PERT
- Examine various techniques to determine and manage schedule contingency and learn, through a demonstration, how to implement unnoticed project buffers into your schedule while creating useful “contingency traffic lights”
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Speaker(s): John-Michael Scott, Robbins-Gioia | 200 - Intermediate Level
Nearly 100 years have gone by since some of the first formalized studies of management. Strategic management has gone thru what some might consider a boom & bust cycle over that time.
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Key problems remain today for leaders of organizations including accuracy of data used to make decisions, timeliness of data, and completeness of data. Decision support models remain the holy grail for top executives. IT has provided much but is still seen as more part of the problem than part of the solution. Learn more during this session on the technology enablers behind the Strategic Planning and Governance solution jointly designed by Microsoft & Robbins-Gioia. In the session, the presenters will share with you the top concerns of executives and how the Microsoft platform is best positioned to meet those concerns. Key areas include defining the strategic plan, making the strategic plan actionable, establishing a governance model that works, evaluating investments over their entire lifespan and establishing action plans that are measurable and achievable.
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Speaker(s): Ben Chamberlain, Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
Join this session to learn how integrating Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) and Application Development processes helps to improve visibility across the entire development lifecycle and in turn, connect two disparate worlds.
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Connecting the worlds of PPM and Application Development empowers project managers and development teams to follow their own methodologies, select the optimal productivity tools and yet remain seamlessly connected throughout the development lifecycle.
Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution, SharePoint Server 2007 and Visual Studio Team Foundation Sever are already used by organizations to support PPM and Application Development processes. Integrating these products allows the development team to work in a familiar environment, maximizing productivity and focusing on quality, whilst ensuring all required data is available to the project managers and stakeholders to facilitate enterprise resource management and reporting. Please join this session to learn how integrating Microsoft’s EPM Solution with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server helps:
- Standardize the collection of project requests across the organization
- Optimize budgets and align project portfolios with strategic priorities
- Improve communication and collaboration between project and development teams
- Reduce administrative tasks ensuring developers are focused on quality
- Facilitate enterprise reporting and control across the portfolio
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Speaker(s): Jon Hughes & Chris Samulski, Robbins-Gioia | 200 - Intermediate Level
Over the past decade the “Office of Management & Budget” (OMB) and the” Executive Office of the President” have been working diligently to put better transparency and oversight into the business of Government. Selecting the optimal investments can be a complex undertaking even in the best of times and all too often, decisions are based on emotion rather than being driven by a rational business process. In today's economic uncertainty, US Federal Government agencies face multiple challenges in making better decisions about how and where to spend budgets. The Capital Planning & Investment Control (CPIC) Solution can help government agencies improve decision making, and effectively control investments throughout their lifecycle.
In 2008, Microsoft and Robbins-Gioia partnered to build a Capital Planning & Investment Control (CPIC) solution, built on SharePoint Server 2007 and the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solution. During this session we will provide an overview of the CPIC solution and demonstrate how it helps agencies to develop business cases, improve decision making and control investments throughout their lifecycle. Additionally, we will discuss how we built the solution using SharePoint and EPM as well as share our experiences of building on-top of this powerful platform.
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Speaker(s): Christophe Campana, Campana & Schott | 300 - Experienced Level
Stefan Haffner, Campana & Schott
The main objective of this session is to demonstrate how the Microsoft Office stack can be used to automate customer-specific business processes while reproducing existing reports and seamlessly integrating with the existing LoB system landscape. Integrating EPM with LoB systems is becoming a more common customer request and Campana & Schott present a lighthouse customer case (global player process manufacturing with 1,500 users in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas) where Microsoft Project Server 2007 (MOPS) was integrated with Microsoft Project and Portfolio Server 2007 (MOPPS), SharePoint 2007, Office 2007 and SAP ERP.
A live demo of their customer’s solution depicts the complete lifecycle of a project, starting with the proposal of new project ideas via web forms and workflows in MOSS and MOPPS. Once approved, projects plans and project workspaces are created automatically in MOPS, using data that has already been entered in MOSS as well as specific templates. In later stages, project data is periodically synchronized between EPM and MOSS while financial information from SAP ERP is added (e.g. - to feed data into an executive management dashboard). Additionally, various PowerPoint slides are automatically generated via the Open XML format. |
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Speaker(s): Robert Happy and David Blair, Project Management Practice, Inc. | 300 - Experienced Level
In this session you will learn to leverage the powerful toolbox from your EPM system to create effective dashboard type views and reports to provide timely insight and control across your projects.
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Learn how to optimize the power of Project Server and SharePoint technologies to customize status views across projects with red/yellow/ green light indicators, view real time capacity vs. demand graphically for resources by role or by department, and more. You will also learn when and how to apply tools such as SQL reporting services and Excel Services to help create all in one, easy to use portals optimizing SharePoint technology and web parts. As an added benefit we will also provide you with key formula's for two powerful custom fields that can be used for custom views and reports for status and tracking.
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Speaker(s): Claudia Tambone, ST NEXT SRL | 300 - Experienced Level
This session will focus on a custom SharePoint demand management application built for ABB Italy (customer), that seamlessly integrates with both Project Server and Project Portfolio Server.
The customer required a flexible centralized demand management solution for effectively capturing all IT demand including different types of projects and non-project requests. A key design goal was to ensure the demand management system seamlessly integrated with Project Portfolio Server 2007 and Project Server 2007. Each request is managed through a different workflow that subjects the request to the appropriate controls throughout its lifecycle.
During this session we will demonstrate the solution and show how each request type is managed. In addition, we will focus on how we built the SharePoint demand management application and share our experiences of seamlessly integrating the solution with Project & Project Portfolio Server.
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Speaker(s): Greg Bailey, Quantum PM | 200 - Intermediate Level
Under-utilized resources are wasteful. Over-utilized resources are inefficient. What if you had a way to optimize your projects and your resources so that you have the most efficient balance – the right resources at the right time?
This talk will cover:
- Capitalizing on the box capabilities of Microsoft’s EPM Solution that support resource planning and management.
- Enhance the core capabilities of resource management in Microsoft’s EPM solution with QuantumPM Resource Forecaster.
- Compare several scenarios and choose the most optimal.
- Identify overloads and gaps via a graphical user interface.
- Dynamically move projects around in time.
- Filter on projects and resources to include in “what-if” scenario planning.
- Save multiple what if scenarios.
- Whether your organization is stretched too thin or has too much of a good thing, the right tools will help you optimize your current resources and plan for the future.
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Speaker(s): Carl Dalby, Pcubed | 200 - Intermediate Level
Program management success is difficult to achieve in any organization.
The Pcubed DeliveryHub solution, created from the combined experiences of over 3,000 client program management engagements over the last 15 years, has been deployed in many organizations across the globe. This solution is built on top of the Microsoft EPM solution and SharePoint Server, helping customer’s to gain additional value from their existing Microsoft platform investments. This proven award winning solution demonstrates the power of embedding best practice program management techniques on top of a collaborative project and portfolio management environment. It proves that with the right level of program reporting and control, vast benefits to the business can be achieved in a cost effective and efficient way.
This Microsoft Project 2010 based demonstration will show how an integrated solution can swiftly deliver program management control and complete information drill up and drill down to any level of detail in your organization.
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Speaker(s): Hans Torsleff & Mads Suhr Nielsen, Hans Torsleff management systems | 200 - Intermediate Level
Join this session to learn more about integrating Project Server 2007 and Dynamics AX.
Pressure on production in a volatile market increases a company’s focus on planning and forecasting. The best solution is an integrated operational planning and economic forecasting system tying the business together. The operational projects are the center of an integrated system ensuring that all parts of the organization have equal access to relevant and updated information. Further, all departments work on the same data source to ensure one common project understanding.
The system is built around a project being created in Dynamics AX and planned in MS Project. During the operational lifetime of the project, time is submitted in Dynamics AX, and time to completion is updated in Project Server. Both are transferred between the systems to give Project Managers timely updates on progress and management “live” forecast on production.
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Speaker(s): Matthias Jaeger, diventis GmbH | 200 - Intermediate Level
EPM/MOSS 2007 is implemented as an worldwide application used for planning studies and projects to global use.
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The benefits of a global extension of the tool include:
- Central tool for planning and tracking of projects and studies (and other activities) within Non-Clinical Safety for studies/projects on a global level
- Allows detailed laboratory/activity planning within studies and at the same time portfolio management
- Allows project overviews for Project Toxicologists, Study Planner and Management etc.
- Study details for laboratory planning groups, study directors, technicians, etc.
- Increased transparency of planning (mainly about timelines)
- Up-to-date information at any time and not only every 3-4 months
- Use of only one central planning tool within Toxicology
The customer designed and developed solution is based on Microsoft Project 2007 VBA solutions and Project Server / SharePoint Server 2007 PSI solutions. The effort spend on solution development was more than 1 man year, the effort for EPM consultancy appr. 10 man month.
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Speaker(s): Tim Runcie, Advisicon | 300 - Experienced Level
Businesses and government organizations depend on innovation and efficiency like never before. Tim Runcie, a Microsoft Project MVP, will share ways that are working today to tap the power of Project, Project Server and Office, and SharePoint, showcasing the benefits already being realized by organizations.
Tim will demonstrate how to use project management techniques and using out of box Microsoft Office Project and Project Server to help you learn to leverage techniques that are successfully helping energy, construction, banking, manufacturing, and IT organizations. He will highlight proven techniques, best practices, tips and tricks to make project management technologies more relevant and valuable to users and organizations to achieve maximum adoption and utilization.
Bring your questions and organizational project challenges to this upbeat, interactive session. Learn how the right use of technology can enable people and organizations to achieve more with less.
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Speaker(s): Reiner Wodey, Wodey Informationssysteme | 200 - Intermediate Level
Shahzeeb Akhtar, Wodey Informationssysteme
A powerful project management solution, enabling business managers to develop comprehensive project plans in even faster and more effective ways is about to be presented!
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United by ProjectLINKER, developed by Wodey Informationssysteme, Germany, the latest business mapping software, NovaMind 5, developed by NovaMind Software, Australia, is elegantly coupled to the latest Microsoft Office Project, letting enterprise teams plan, map, track and clearly understand their activities as never before.
Through ProjectLINKER, project plans and data are bi-directionally synchronized between NovaMind and Microsoft Office Project as well as Microsoft Project Server. This allows organizations to gain unprecedented visibility into their resources, as all projects, complex and small, can be tracked in Microsoft Office Project Server. The solution now makes it faster and easier to report project status in a visual intuitive format to executives and client stakeholders. Without further training, business managers will have access to resource availability during the initial planning phases resulting better business decisions, more accurate plans and more realistic expectations. The solution offers business leaders clarity and transparency in their project portfolios. Additionally, teams can record project history, status, and multi-project overviews - all with graphical indicators to enhance visual reporting.
ProjectLINKER’s use of NovaMind for project planning can accelerate the deployment of Microsoft Project Server. Due to NovaMind’s powerful, yet easy planning capabilities, even the smallest projects can be planned in NovaMind 5 and tracked in Microsoft Office Project Server.
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Speaker(s): Simon Floyd, Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
In today's challenging global economy, INNOVATION is essential to surviving and coming out of the downturn ahead of competition. In many industries, innovation traditionally has been a departmentalized, top-down process run by a small team of researchers, designers or engineers.
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The rapid spread and high availability of collaborative technologies has changed this model. It is now recognized that the next great breakthrough in products, services and processes can come from people anywhere inside or outside an organization.
Microsoft’s IPM Solution, built on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution, helps organizations foster a culture of innovation and manage ideas throughout their entire lifecycle to effectively deliver the resulting innovations to market.
During this session we will discuss why Innovation Management is becoming a corporate priority and present a live demonstration of Microsoft’s IPM Solution. Please join to learn how to:
- Capture ideas from anywhere within the organization
- Collaborate to review and rank ideas
- Build business cases to evaluate each idea
- Employ portfolio management techniques to select the best ideas
- Execute and deliver innovation projects to maximize RO
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Speaker(s): Kris Athey, Quantum PM | 300 - Experienced Level
For partners and their customers who want to prepare for a proof of concept using Microsoft’s IPM solution starter package. The IPM solution supports the full innovation lifecycle from ideation through deployment using MOSS, Project Server, and Project Portfolio Server. The session will cover:
- IPM solution architecture overview
- Use of the Installer package to set up the POC environment
- Licensing requirements for the POC and full deployment solutions
- Recommended approach for a full deployment requirements discussion
Details provided on the core code structure, target machine architecture, and planning for extension of the code base with custom code. This is an advanced topic discussion intended for those who will plan and deploy a POC in preparation for a full IPM solution. The POC can be set up with minimal customization so that requirements planning for the full deployment can be done in a prototype environment. |
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Speaker(s): Stavros Georgantzis, The Project Group | 300 - Experienced Level
Andreas Huber, Siemens IT Solutions and Services
Our presentation will include a demonstration an EPM/SAP solution in a Project 2010 test environment and will also provide background into the migration of SAP integrated implementations. This Siemens Energy Automation solution was created to meet the business requirements for cost and effort planning as well as time tracking in conjunction with their SAP system. The main challenge was to support five (5) types of projects that are reflected in four (4) different modules in SAP. All of which was to be integrated with EPM-driven effort planning along with a SAP-driven primary cost planning. Time postings for all types of projects were centralized in Project Web Access and updated to SAP CATS by using the comprehensive integration of TPG PSLink. |
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Speaker(s): Jim Patterson, EPM Live | 200 – Intermediate Level
Joe Larscheid, EPM Live
Microsoft Project and Project Server provide a great solution for Enterprise Project Management (EPM), and execution of the project management discipline.
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server provides the most widely used collaboration platform on the market today, with a powerful set of capabilities and features . However, in most organizations, these solutins operate mostly in parallel and separate from one another. See how EPM Live combines the power of both technologies to provide a powerful solution for effectively managing project, operational, development and all other types of work in your organization. EPM Live’s templates leverage SharePoint Server capabilities including workspaces, forms, Excel Services, workflows, enterprise search and more to meet customers unique requirements. Join this session to learn how leveraging a common platform and getting more value from technologies you already own, can streamline your operations, save money and have direct impact to your bottom line.
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Speaker(s): Anisha Mason | 200 - Intermediate Level
On a level of 1-5 where would you rate your organization’s project management maturity? If you’re like most companies you’re probably on the low end of the scale. So why spend tens of thousands of dollars customizing and configuring an EPM solution based on your current standards?
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VirtualePM is an on-demand software solution that comes pre-configured with industry and Project Management Institute (PMI) best practices. The solution leverages the configurations of some of the world’s largest and most mature project organizations. With VirtualePM you get a powerful pre-built solution that includes configuration, training, training guides, software* and a block of on-demand support hours. All of this for one low, fixed price and a per user monthly fee.
You need to be successful solution when you can buy something off the shelf and implement it across your organizations in as little as three weeks? According to Daniel B. Stang Analyst for Project and Portfolio Management at Gartner “Organizations unable to support or afford a large enterprise project and portfolio management implementation should consider the software-as-a-service or on-demand (application service provider) option as an alternative to an expensive, long-term commitment.” Join us for this session which includes a real-time demonstration and overview of VirtualePM.
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Speaker(s): Eamonn McGuinness, BrightWork | 200 - Intermediate Level
The Challenge … Many customers today still manage work and projects using whiteboards, email and Excel. More to the point many of these customers do not have a commonly applied mature process for managing work and projects. Some combination of Project Desktop 2010, Office and SharePoint 2010 would greatly help these customers be way more productive with their work and project management.
The Solution … This session will: (1) Present a reusable real world process model for managing work and projects of various types and sizes. (2) Demo how Project Desktop 2010 and SharePoint 2010 can sit well together. (3) Explain and demo a simple but pragmatic process to use Project 2010, Office and SharePoint 2010 for the flexible management of work and projects.
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Speaker(s): Christophe Campana, Campana & Schott | 200 - Intermediate Level
Stefan Haffner, Campana & Schott
Campana & Schott currently offers 15 Enterprise Project Management (EPM) add-on products and has long-term experience with EPM extensions. Session will include the impact Project Server 2010 will have on their product portfolio, provide early feedback on their technical migration and present live-demos of some of their most successful products.
In sharing their experience from the TAP (Technology Adoption Program, they will cover:
- Which EPM extensions have turned obsolete due to enhanced PS functionality?
- What did we experience during technical migration?
- Which are important remaining areas to add value to PS 2010?
- Live demo: How to make EPM an unbeatable platform even for the most demanding customers
- Integrating EPM with SAP/ MOSS/ Team Foundation Server (TFS)
- Extended Management reporting for EPM (print/PDF reports including trends and KPIs)
- Managing large and complex programs with EPM
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Speaker(s): Michael Patrick, Western Principles | 200 - Intermediate Level
This session will go through how the integration of AX with project server enables the coverage of additional key project management processes such as procurement, expense tracking and fully automated project controls. Additionally it will show how the solution allows the support of more sophisticated projects through the use of multiple currency budgeting, invoicing and planning. Finally, as part of this overview we will also review the technical requirements for implementing the solution.
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Speaker(s): Scott Chapman | 200 - Intermediate Level
Project on demand is especially 'right' right now.
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Hosting is the fast, affordable way to enjoy the benefits of Microsoft Project web collaboration:
- increase visibility, communication and access for all stakeholders
- slash costs and time by 75% without sacrificing flexibility or control
- unburden IT, leapfrog backlogs
- just turn it on
Effective project management is a must-have for companies of every size in every industry. You need to engage not just your project managers, but extended teams of colleagues and executives across your organization, and, increasingly, customers and partners beyond it – all of whom are stakeholders.
We’ll show how hosted Project collaboration improved results for companies large and small using streamlined on-ramps for small teams, packaged applications for mid-size teams and custom implementations for large groups. Whether your long-range plan is on-demand or on-premise, hosting is the fastest way to enjoy the full benefits of Microsoft Project.
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Speaker(s): Kimberly Joyce, DecisionEdge | 200 - Intermediate Level
Join this session to see the power of integrating DecisionEdge with Microsoft Project to provide project managers with a powerful reporting and Business Intelligence views.
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Keeping your eyes on the project as well as the project details is crucial to the projects success. However, spending too much time on one versus the other could lead you down a misleading path. Using the right set of metrics can highlight potential problems in the making so corrective action can be taken as soon as possible.
Learn what types of best practice reports are used in industry to give you insight into your projects for straightforward answers and clear cut decisions. This session will use DecisionEdge for Microsoft Project to display charts, reports and dashboards.
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Speaker(s): Alban de Bergevin, Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
As your organization needs you to track more efficiently the progress of your projects and programs, Earned Value Management (EVM) is the perfect solution to your challenge. How intensive your EVM will be, depends on regulations, Project Management Maturity and requirements. Join us at this session to understand better how the Microsoft Project Platform will enable you to manage EVM from “EVM Lite” to “Enterprise-Grade EVM”. This session will include demonstration of EVM Solutions.
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Speaker(s): Brad Bart | 200 - Intermediate Level
Super charge MS Project with detailed estimating, resources, coast loading and production controls. Learn how to keep all aspects of cost, production and changes dynamically in synch throughout the life of the project. Integration provides advanced earned value reporting, historical production capabilities and costs and a dynamic ability to create “what if” scenarios before and during the project.
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Speaker(s): Tim Runcie, Advisicon, Inc. | 300 - Experienced Level
Businesses and government organizations depend on innovation and efficiency like never before. Tim Runcie, a Microsoft Project MVP, will share ways that are working today to tap the power of Project, Project Server and Office, and SharePoint, showcasing the benefits already being realized by organizations.
Tim will demonstrate how to use project management techniques and using out of box Microsoft Office Project and Project Server to help you learn to leverage techniques that are successfully helping energy, construction, banking, manufacturing, and IT organizations. He will highlight proven techniques, best practices, tips and tricks to make project management technologies more relevant and valuable to users and organizations to achieve maximum adoption and utilization.
Bring your questions and organizational project challenges to this upbeat, interactive session. Learn how the right use of technology can enable people and organizations to achieve more with less.
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Speaker(s): Mike Gruia & Ava Dadabhoy, UMT Consulting Group | 200 - Intermediate Level
Join this session to learn how your organization can benefit from comprehensive Project and Portfolio Financial Management enabled by the Project Financial Server 2010 add-on to Project 2010. A Project moves through various stages in its lifecycle as it goes from being a Proposal, to it being approved and funded, through to completion. Financial data on the project, both costs and benefits, is essential at every stage of the project in making key Project and Portfolio decisions. However, the project data available and required to make decisions varies based on a number of factors including the project lifecycle stage, project size and type. The Project Financial Server 2010 provides a means to establish and ensure a governance framework for Project Financial Management throughout the lifecycle of the Project in-line with best practices and customizable to your organization environment and maturity. It enables ‘top-down’ financial planning in a flexible and scalable manner with the ability to seamlessly integrate with bottoms-up planning, so that different stakeholders ranging from Executives, Project Manager, PMO, to Finance have the data they need, when they need it.
Built as a seamless extension to Project Server 2010, the Project Financial Server 2010 uses project task, timesheet, resources, and other project data relevant to financial management in a manner transparent to the end user. During this session we will discuss and demonstrate Project Financial Management best-practices and how they are supported by the Project Financial Server 2010. The session will include:
- Defining and ensuring a governance framework for enterprise Project Financial management
- Setting organization standards including cost and benefits structures
- Defining data validations based on project lifecycle stage
- Requiring approvals and notifications
- Ensuring security and access
- Developing Project financials including costs and benefits and the project budget
- Tracking project financials
- Actuals
- Forecasts
- Variances
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Speaker(s): Chet Farmer; forProject Technology, Inc. | 300 - Experienced Level
Integrating Microsoft Project Server into a heterogeneous IT environment can be a challenge. Project management systems need to converse with legacy data warehousing tools, estimation systems, accounting or even ERP databases, and all manner of custom-built in-house systems - and the larger the installation, the greater the likelihood of complex integration needs. This has traditionally meant custom integration code, which adds dollars and weeks to an implementation's up front and long term maintenance costs.
At forProject, we have encountered this particular problem over and over in the marketplace, and consequently have a number of options in our toolbox for connecting disparate systems without writing a single line of code. We'll discuss some of the more common integration requirements and solutions we've crafted, and how we've folded those client requirements into our suite of tools on the desktop as well as the server-to-server level.
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Speaker(s): Ben Howard, Applepark Ltd | 300 - Experienced Level
Successful Project Server deployments needn't take an army of consultants. As a single consultant I've deployed Project Server 2003 and 2007 in many organisations with minimal resources. The key is to focus on the business requirements and configure project server accordingly, and importantly, work out how to correctly use of Project Professional. Without covering all the above bases, your installation is likely to fall short in one or more areas.
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Speaker(s): Treb Gatte, Jan Kalis & Bobby Burns; Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
An overview of how to prepare for and migrate to the EPM 2010 environment from your current environment whether that is Project Server 2003, 2007, or Portfolio Server 2007. This session is designed to arm you with the technical information you need to be successful.
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Speaker(s): Chris Boyd, Microsoft Corporation | 300 - Experienced Level
This session will provide an overview of programmability enhancements to the upcoming version of Microsoft Project and Project Server. In this session, new programmability features such as Workflow, Windows Communication Foundation and Ribbon programmability will be highlighted. In addition to the new features, writing backwards compatibility for Project 2007 applications will be discussed.
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Speaker(s): Jean-Francois LeSaux, Microsoft Corporation | 300 - Experienced Level
In this session, you will learn the power of Microsoft Search Technologies as a new reporting solution for your Microsoft EPM 2007 or Microsoft Project 2010 environments. This session will demonstrate how to deploy and configure the Indexing and Search technologies with the goal to extract hard to find data with conventional reporting solutions. We will show several demonstrations and provide best practices.
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Speaker(s): Michael Jordan, Microsoft Corporation | 300 - Experienced Level
Microsoft Consulting Services completed a series of tests to produce a white paper on capacity planning on Microsoft Project Server 2007. Providing recommendations and guidelines about how to plan for capacity and how to size a Project Server 2007 environment, requires a systematic testing approach and thorough data analysis. This session discusses how we ran the performance tests for Project Server 2007 using Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition, the results from our performance labs, and the capacity planning recommendations and guidelines that we extrapolated from these results and from numerous customer deployments.
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Speaker(s): Sam Chung, Microsoft Corporation | 400 - Advanced/Expert Level
Biatrice Ambrosa, Microsoft Corporation
Project Server has a new infrastructure for building out a demand management process. This session covers the capabilities built in and how the workflow can be customized and extended to meet your business needs. This session will go over the following concepts:
- Developer experience in creating a Workflow
- Deployment story for Project workflows
- Administrator experience in creating Workflow Controlled Enterprise Project Types
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Speaker(s): Pat Malatack, Microsoft Corporation | 400 - Advanced/Expert Level
Jesse Carnathan, Microsoft Corporation
Project Server 2010 has a variety of new features in PWA that give developers the ability to create dynamic, rich solutions. This session will focus on extending current PWA features as well as using the new javascript based grid control to create features of your own.
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Speaker(s): Rod Gill, ACE Project Systems Ltd | 400 - Advanced/Expert Level
This session is filled with examples of how Project VBA has been used to make schedulers more productive for the many organizations I have helped. You will learn what makes Project VBA so useful and how it helps you be much more productive when using Project, especially for larger projects. Examples will be shown on how to interact with Excel and databases such as the Project Server Reporting database so come and see what up-skilling yourself in Project VBA can do for your career!
The speaker, Rod Gill, is author of the only book on Project VBA.
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Speaker(s): Christophe Fiessinger, Microsoft Corporation | 300 - Experienced Level
Discuss deployment scenarios with Project Server and SharePoint (together or apart/single farm or two farm), pros and cons of each scenarios and recommended best practices.
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Speaker(s): Shane Young, SharePoint 911 | 300 - Experienced Level
Todd Klindt, Solanite Consulting
This session takes you through the process of developing a successful implementation plan for your Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (WSS) or Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) deployment. Determining the goals and vision, stakeholders, level of customization or development, rollout, phasing, intranet, extranet, and Internet considerations and taxonomy of your portal are all discussed through lectures, hands-on experience, and case studies. This class not only covers what you should do, but also real world scenarios and best practices. |
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Speaker(s): Jean-Francois LeSaux, Microsoft Corporation | 300 - Experienced Level
This session covers Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 Server virtualization best practices using Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V technology. It includes deployment best practices with respect to virtualization, including optimum architecture configuration (which component should be deployed on a virtual environment and which ones should be deployed on a physical environment), and how to architect a high-availability virtual farm. The session will also cover the recommended architecture supporting Development, Test, QA and Production environments.
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Speaker(s): Andrew Connell, Critical Path Training | 300 - Experienced Level
Project Server's integration with SharePoint facilitates collaborating on projects within an organization and members of a team. With this integration, developers can extend both platforms to satisfy specific and custom requirements to facilitate unique business processes and add new functionality to improve productivity and efficiency. In this session you will learn what is involved in developing custom solutions for SharePoint.
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Speaker(s): Chris Boyd, Microsoft Corporation | 300 - Experienced Level
This session will focus on customizing and extending the Project desktop client leveraging the object model as well as other extensibility features such the Fluent UI. The session will focus on using Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO).
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Speaker(s): Stephen Sanderlin, MSProjectExperts | 200 - Intermediate Level
This session will provide an overview of the Project Server Interface (PSI) and the Reporting Database (RDB), along with discussions concerning their capabilities, usage, and limitations. This session seeks to build a foundational understanding of these components for the new Project Server developer.
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Speaker(s): Stephen Sanderlin, MSProjectExperts | 300 - Experienced Level
The Project Server Interface (PSI) contains a wealth of functionality spread across numerous components. Developers who are new to Project Server often find the sheer complexity and depth of the PSI to be extremely intimidating. In this session, we will show you how to build a basic PSI consumer application and provide some best practices. This session seeks to increase the new developer’s comfort level with the PSI.
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Speaker(s): Stephen Sanderlin, MSProjectExperts | 400 - Advanced/Expert Level
Colby Africa, forProject Technology, Inc.
When developing an interface between Project Server and an external Line of Business (LoB) application, the depth and complexity of the Project Server Interface (PSI) can present a whole host of issues. One of the most challenging issues is the substantial effort required for a developer that is unfamiliar with Project Server to gain solid experience and comfort with the PSI. One possible approach is to assign a small team to encapsulate the PSI interactions inside of a custom API. In this session, we will demonstrate and discuss various strategies and best practices for PSI encapsulation.
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Speaker(s): Kathy Schwalbe, Augsburg College | 200 - Intermediate Level
Many organizations understand basic project management and its value, yet they struggle to implement it well. There is great value to learning about best practices in project management on a case-by-case basis. For example, the recent project to rebuild the 35W bridge in Minneapolis was a huge success, as was President Obama's campaign. You can also learn a lot from research on best practices. Kathy will share information on how companies use various project management tools and techniques, including Microsoft Project, to add value to their organizations.
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Speaker(s): Mary Morabito & Jason Carlisle, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated | 200 - Intermediate Level
Due to SOX and compliance with SOP 98-1 it was necessary to have accurate project accounting to support SAP capitalized costs. Using PWA tools we created custom fields, custom data analysis reports, and set up a procedure to close our financial periods. In our presentation we will map the PWA tool activities and the monthly reconciliation process to SAP.
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Speaker(s): Lisa O'Brian, Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
This three year case study includes Microsoft IT, Microsoft Customer Service & Support (CSS) and several other business groups, who have overhauled their internal decision making processes, instilled a governance culture, and delivered tangible impact to the corporate bottom line.
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This presentation will provide insight into how these groups successfully implemented a cross-divisional strategy and solution for improving decision-making, the challenges that were overcome, and the goals for improving this solution moving forward. The focus will be how Microsoft Customer Service & Support delivered tangible value by (a) first, improving their portfolio visibility leading to an immediate 10% savings in portfolio investment; and (b) developing a solution for documenting and managing strategic project commitments over time, and connecting these directly to business performance improvements. These successes led to the organizational commitment for a global deployment, with all groups within CSS adopting this solution to both report on strategic initiatives, and to manage their internal group projects. Best practices will be shared for delivering quantitative business value with a portfolio management solution, securing executive buy-in and managing a global rollout.
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Speaker(s): Carl Dalby, Pcubed | 200 - Intermediate Level
Engineering has a stronger record on successful program delivery than the business change and IT industry. Perhaps it isn't that engineering projects are inherently easier, but that the engineering industry has learned lessons that could be applied on IT-enabled change programs. Pcubed offers five key points for the IT industry.
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Speaker(s): Chris Beck, Shire Pharmaceuticals | 300 - Experienced Level
Ira Brown, Project Widgets, Inc.
Shire Pharmaceuticals, a global specialty biopharmaceutical company, lacked consistent project and resource planning methods, which hindered decision making.
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To address that need, Shire deployed a customized Microsoft® Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solution that automated the project creation process using standardized templates, leveraged resource-forecasting algorithms, offered advanced schedule-variance reporting, and provided a convenient Microsoft Office Excel® interface for specific users. With the EPM Solution, Shire can now meet its strategic milestones more consistently, plan its resources more accurately, manage change proactively, and provide key leaders across the organization with consolidated, critical information to support decision making. Chris Beck, Vice President of Program Resources and Decision Support at Shire Pharmaceuticals will share his the journey of deploying an EPM solution at Shire, Bob Cantwell from Microsoft will describe how Microsoft Consulting Services delivered and supports Shire's EPM solution, and Ira Brown, President and CEO of Project Widgets, will provide a demonstration of the powerful, automated capabilities of the solution.
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Speaker(s): Glen Alleman, Lewis & Fowler | 200 - Intermediate Level
Five core processes provide end-to-end coverage of all the technical, operational, and programmatic activities encountered in a project.
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- Capabilities: A description of the needed business capabilities from the stakeholders
- Requirements: A list of the technical and operational requirements needed to enable the business capabilities
- Master Cost and Schedule: A time-phased network of the work activities, resources, and allocated budget needed to produce the product or services to meet these requirements
- Execution: A Periodic assessment of the physical percent complete to assure progress is being made to plan and all risks are being handled in some planned manner
- Continuous Risk Management: Knowledge of the impediments to progress, their mitigation or retirement.
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Speaker(s): Ed W. Rosenthal, PepsiCo International | 300 - Experienced Level
Grainger was founded in 1927, with 18,000+ employees, 1300 suppliers, over 600 branches with $6.4 billion in sales. They has access to 850,000 products in United States, Mexico, Canada, Panama, India and China.
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The ERP project methodology used a "Big Bang" implementation approach, which deploys all SAP functionality over a single cutover. It built a platform of common processes, with a single source of reference for all information. It is one of the world's largest SAP cutovers.
During the critical aspects of the project planning performance process the PMO looked for a tool set to centralize and communicate with all teams from one location. A standard project methodology was being used with a variety of performance metrics. We partner with consultants with leadership support to define goals and strategies for the Project Server ERP system rollout.
While focused on solving a business problem at hand with a large "Big Bang" Cutover, we needed to have all the teams reporting from a single collaborated source and with an eye toward delivering the SAP Cutover without any interruptions. Our teams tested extensively and as always, we incorporate lessons learned. Our Team Leaders were actively involved in results to what happens when the users use this new environment.
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Speaker(s): Michelle Barnett, The Walt Disney Studios | 400 - Advanced/Expert Level
Microsoft Project Server 2007 is used by the Post Production Supply Chain Operations team to manage collaborative planning and execution of global titles released theatrically and Home Entertainment. A team of 5 Title Planners, 55 task owners and 290 report consumers manage over 400 titles per year with plans consisting of 20 - 1500 tasks and milestones over 17 process areas per plan.
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Our Project Management application requires complex portfolio level reports leveraging SQL Reporting Services and ProClarity, integration through the PSI with other operational applications and custom user interfaces to support the needs of the operations teams. The tool is used to keep all the decentralized teams of the supply chain on the same page during planning and project execution activities.
We have a unique application of Project Server 2007 which provides flexibility, accuracy, accountability and rapid data accessibility. Prior to implementation of this tool, each group planned separately according to their own view of the world. "One version of the truth" became our mantra and goal. The application has been in production since 2006 and saved millions by allowing us to take advantage of early delivery discounts and avoiding expedited charges and enabled enhance revenue by working with the Marketing teams to maximize product street dates.
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Speaker(s): Beth Britt PhD, UMT Consulting Group | 200 - Intermediate Level
This case study will describe a global effort to pilot and launch a comprehensive EPM solution across Baxter Bioscience Manufacturing, a global manufacturer of treatments for hemophilia and other conditions, with over $5B in annual sales and 25,000 employees.
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In 2007, Baxter formed a global PMO consortium charged with the development of collaborative best practices for portfolio and project management for all manufacturing facilities. This group of PMO Directors began taking steps towards a consolidated vision and implementation of a comprehensive EPM solution, which were (a) requirements activities and a rigorous tool selection process, leading to selection of Microsoft EPM and UMT Consulting Group to assist in their implementation; (b) successfully pilot a global solution for portfolio management, and then a shared solution for project and resource management; (c) passing gate review criteria of a cross-manufacturing Executive Review Board; (d) planning for a global rollout of these solutions to all manufacturing facilities, beginning with Los Angeles in the Summer of 2009. This enterprise wide initiative provides many best practices and a successful model for planning and deployment for a large manufacturing organization, and for overcoming the many challenges inherent in a global project of this nature.
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Speaker(s): Dr. Aaron Shenhar, Rutgers Business School / Technological Leadership Institute | Level TBD
Most projects today are uncertain, complex, non-linear, and changing; and they are highly impacted by the dynamics in the environment. Virtually every successful project is faced with changes that were unpredictable upfront, and in reality, no modern project is executed exactly as planned. However, few of these realities are being addressed by the traditional approach to project management, which is often decoupled from changes in the environment or the business needs.
Strategic Project Leadership® is a new, integrated approach to project management that combines the strategic business-related aspects of projects, the operational needs of getting the job done, and the leadership sides of organizing, motivating, and inspiring the project team. This approach is helping organizations to deal with their projects in a more flexible and adaptive way; and more important, it focuses projects on creating value, competitive advantage and winning in the marketplace. We will show how this model can be applied on top of the current organizational processes to increase the chances of project success. |
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Speaker(s): Keith Vadas, ProModel Corporation | 300 - Experience Level
Critical questions concerning any organization’s KPIs are typically met with an “according to plan…” answer. While static portfolio analysis is a starting point for making crucial decisions, simulation provides more robust answers to strategic questions by simultaneously taking into account a large number of risk factors to yield a more probabilistic “given the accumulated uncertainty, the likelihood is…” answer.
This presentation explores how simulation bolts onto MS Project Server allowing EPM customers to:
- Begin understanding their EPM data in a new, more dynamic way while easily layering on new information to account for the potential impact of previously unaccounted for risks.
- Not only dynamically plan which projects to work on, but know when projects should be started to avoid resource contentions and budget overruns, while maximizing KPIs.
- Automatically combine existing resource algorithms from spreadsheets with the timelines from EPM in a “what-if” friendly sandbox.
- Pinpoint the cause of project delays and budget overruns, while simultaneously understanding the likelihood of meeting key milestones.
- Evaluate possible initiatives or alternative portfolio plans side-by-side in an EPM-linked sandbox while considering risk-adjusted outcomes before making decisions.
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Speaker(s): Mark Price Perry, gantthead | 200 - Intermediate Level
This presentation discusses the insights and techniques required to have a business driven PMO and successful EPM implementation. Based upon input and real case studies from Microsoft EPM-based PMOs of all shapes and sizes, this presentation challenges the traditional thinking within the project management community about PMO setup and best practices that for far too long has jeopardized the successful implementation of project management solutions. For any organization setting up a PMO or implementing Microsoft EPM, this presentation is a must see. |
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Speaker(s): Margo Visitacion, Forrester | 200 - Intermediate Level
In today's world, organizations must be able to balance the demands driven by a tight economy and low-risk tolerance while not missing out on opportunities that enable business to get ahead. There's no lack of information, yet project organizations continue to struggle to capture important details and data to communicate the real status of programs and portfolios - let alone day-to-day communications. PPM processes and tools are mature and accessible, yet organizations don't often realize they already have the bulk of the tools needed for that level of visibility. This presentation will discuss the practices and tools that can enable organizations to capture and share information in the time frames needed to make proactive decisions. |
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Speaker(s): Scott Clausen & Anisha Mason, RCM Technology & Betsy Guthrie, Autodesk | 200 - Intermediate Level
Industry studies suggest more than 70% of IT projects fail completely or are abandoned prior to completion. Billions of dollars are wasted every year on failed IT projects and technology implementations. As executives, what can we do to ensure implementation success and reap the benefits promised by technologies like Microsoft SharePoint, Project and Portfolio Server? In this executive session, Betsy Guthrie, Project Manager and Change Agent at Autodesk, the leading developer of state of the art 2-D and 3-D applications will share her adoptions strategies used to successfully deploy an enterprise project and SharePoint implementation at one of the largest software development organizations in the world. |
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Speaker(s): Bill Beattie & Oscar de Lucio, UMT Consulting Group | 200 - Intermediate Level
Bill Beattie, McAfee PMO Manager will provide a real world view on how McAfee successfully implemented an Enterprise Project Management Solution using a phased approach. The focus of this session will be on change management and organizational adoption strategies; the key aspects of your implementation beyond the technical work that will truly ensure a successful adoption.
Learn how McAfee successfully implemented the 2007 version of the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management Solution leveraging the Project Server 2003 experience and proactively strategizing on the change management and organizational adoption approach.
Some of the keys to Adoption Success that will be discussed during this session:
- Understand your stakeholders and their resistance to create incentives to adopt the new Solution;
- Begin with a pilot to identify quick wins;
- Get executive support using the full MOSS capabilities;
- Target the Project Managers as an early adoption group; and
- ‘Create the culture’ around the enterprise wide utilization of the new Solution.
McAfee leveraged UMT Consulting Group to implement an Enterprise Project Management Solution to gain visibility into and to drive the maturity of their project management processes. Discuss with Bill how they worked through various challenges and how you might be able to apply their successes to your own situation. |
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Speaker(s): Mark Virnig, LMR Solutions | 200 - Intermediate Level
Join this session and learn of the powerful value these two solutions, working seamlessly together, provide at ensuring optimal Project Profitability while streamlining organizational processes. Project Managers are empowered to make quick informed decisions with access to financial information available to them at any time/anywhere. You will see how customers are experiencing immediate results on accessibility to relevant information and effective end-to-end management of their Project Management, Project Accounting and ERP processes. From easy Project Invoice and Timecard Approvals, SharePoint document sharing to Flexible Time Entry, you will be amazed at the strength a full featured Project Accounting solution connected to Project Server can deliver to Project Driven Organizations.
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Speaker(s): Jeff DiPasquale & Tom Malfi; UMT Consulting Group | 200 - Intermediate Level
Jeff DiPasquale, BD Global Information Technology Portfolio Management Leader will provide a real world view on how BD designed, implemented and deployed a portfolio and project management solution in order to gain total visibility of their global R&D demand and provide corporate executives with detailed portfolio analyses for optimization and rationalization of all investments. In addition, hear how the IT organization is leveraging this framework to deploy similar portfolio management capabilities thereby providing leaders with a single view of both R&D and IT project-type investments.
BD leveraged UMT Consulting Group to implement a Portfolio Management framework to help their organization make more informed and effective decisions. Discuss with Jeff how they worked through various challenges and how you might be able to apply their successes to your own situation.
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Speaker(s): Eric Zenz, Microsoft Corporate | Product Version: 2010 | 200 - Intermediate Level
Explore the major improvements of Project 2010:
- Scheduling capabilities that makes it easier as well as supports a broader set of planning scenarios from user-controlled scheduling
- Top-down planning
- Resource leveling improvements
- Team Planner feature
- Leverage SharePoint for collaboration even when EPM hasn’t been deployed
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Speaker(s): Pradeep GanapathyRaj, Microsoft Corporate | Product Version: 2010 | 200 - Intermediate Level
Explore the major improvements of Project Server 2010:
- Demand Management
- Portfolio Analysis
- Timesheets and task progress tracking
- Business Intelligence and Reporting
In this lab we will walk you through entering proposals, running workflow, discussion portfolio analysis, drilling into online project editing. We also discuss timesheeting and reporting and describe richness of the Reporting and Data Analysis area in Project Server 2010.
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Speaker(s): Treb Gatte, Jan Kalis & Jean-Francois LeSaux; Microsoft Corporate | Product Version: 2010 | 400 - Advanced/Expert Level
These labs give you hands-on experience on tools and best practices for migration from Project 2003 and Project 2007 to Project 2010. In case you are migrating from 2003 you need to migrate your data to 2007 first in order to continue to 2010.
In the first part of the lab we show the "Virtual Migration Environment" (VME) along with comprehensive documentation that helps you to accomplish the first part of your migration easily without necessity to install or configure new 2007 farm.
The second part uses the pre-configured 2010 image and shows steps how to attach set of 2007 databases and provision PWA instance. This part also talks about new 2010 feature Backwards Compatibility Mode. |
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Speaker(s): Treb Gatte, Jan Kalis & Jean-Francois LeSaux; Microsoft Corporate | Product Version: 2010 | 400 - Advanced/Expert Level
These labs give you hands-on experience on tools and best practices for migration from Project 2003 and Project 2007 to Project 2010. In case you are migrating from 2003 you need to migrate your data to 2007 first in order to continue to 2010.
In the first part of the lab we show the "Virtual Migration Environment" (VME) along with comprehensive documentation that helps you to accomplish the first part of your migration easily without necessity to install or configure new 2007 farm.
The second part uses the pre-configured 2010 image and shows steps how to attach set of 2007 databases and provision PWA instance. This part also talks about new 2010 feature Backwards Compatibility Mode. |
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Speaker(s): | Product Version: 2007 | 300 - Experienced Level
Integrating Application Development and Project & Portfolio Management improves visibility and control throughout a projects lifecycle. It ensures project managers and developers can follow their own methodologies supported by different productivity tools, while remaining seamlessly connected with each other.
Integrating Microsoft’s EPM Solution with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server helps to ensure: 1) Executives can make informed decisions about their portfolio, 2) PMO can better plan and utilize resources, 3)Project managers can more easily manage and track work, 4) Developers and testers can focus on releasing a high quality product without being over burdened with administrative tasks. |
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Speaker(s): | Product Version: 2007 | 200 - Intermediate Level
In today’s fast-paced global economy, innovation is the key to the next big breakthrough in products, services, and processes. However, businesses are often challenged with facilitating innovation due to governance, technical and other logistical pitfalls. The Microsoft Innovation Process Management (IPM) Solution is built on the Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007, and the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution, enabling organizations to:
- Capture ideas from anyone within the organization
- Develop business cases for each idea
- Gather community feedback and ratings
- Run portfolio analytics to select the best ideas
- Successfully execute the resulting project
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Speaker(s): | Product Version: 2007 | 200 - Intermediate Level
For many government agencies, gathering accurate investment data is often an arduous and unsuccessful process. Agency data is often contained within several siloed and poorly integrated systems. Although many commercial project and portfolio data tools are available to government agencies, these tools often do not meet government agencies’ unique needs, leading government executives to purchase additional tools to complete their planning and investment responsibilities.
The CPIC solution, built on the Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007, and the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) Solution, provides government executives with powerful collaboration and analytical tools designed to:
- Provide visibility and control throughout a project’s lifecycle
- Standardize the collection if investment requests
- Enhance the portfolio selection process
- Meet the OMB 300 requirements
- Improve project execution and return on investment
- Evaluate and measure investments' effectiveness
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Speaker(s): | Product Version: 2007 | 200 - Intermediate Level
Project and Portfolio Management helps organizations gain visibility and control across all work, enhancing decision-making, improving alignment with business strategy, maximizing resource utilization and enhancing project execution to optimize ROI. Take some time to view this demonstration to understand how the EPM Solution helps organizations to:
- Capture all project requests
- Develop detailed businesses cases
- Prioritize and select project portfolios that align with strategic priorities
- Maximize resource utilization
- Deliver projects on time and within budget
- Improve visibility and control with comprehensive reporting
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Speaker(s): | Product Version: 2007 | 300 - Experienced Level
This lab will make you understand how to leverage the portfolio of Microsoft business intelligence tools and solutions applied, but not limited to, Enterprise Project
Management (EPM) data. This lab will make you discover how to leverage Excel Services, PerformancePoint Server, SQL Reporting Services 2005, Visio 2007 as well as SharePoint Server 2007 Dashboard and Project KPIs to provide full-feature solutions to solve your customers’ requirements. |
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Speaker(s): | Product Version: 2007 | 200 - Intermediate Level
This image demonstrate how the integration of Project Server with Dynamics AX enables the coverage of additional key project management processes such as procurement, expense tracking and fully automated project controls.
This solution allows the support of more sophisticated projects through the use of multiple currency budgeting, invoicing and planning. |
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Speaker(s): Heather O’Cull, Microsoft Corporate | Product Version: 2010 | 200 - Intermediate Level
You’ve seen the demos, now try out the features. Explore the major improvements of Project 2010:
- New User Interface
- User-Controlled Scheduling
- Timeline View
- Team Planner
- Leverage SharePoint for collaboration even when EPM hasn’t been deployed
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Speaker(s): Treb Gatte, Jan Kalis & Jean-Francois LeSaux; Microsoft Corporate | Product Version: 2010 | 400 - Advanced/Expert Level
These labs give you hands-on experience on tools and best practices for migration from Project 2003 and Project 2007 to Project 2010. In case you are migrating from 2003 you need to migrate your data to 2007 first in order to continue to 2010.
In the first part of the lab we show the "Virtual Migration Environment" (VME) along with comprehensive documentation that helps you to accomplish the first part of your migration easily without necessity to install or configure new 2007 farm.
The second part uses the pre-configured 2010 image and shows steps how to attach set of 2007 databases and provision PWA instance. This part also talks about new 2010 feature Backwards Compatibility Mode.
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Speaker(s): Brian Smith, Microsoft Corporate | Product Version: 2010 | 200 - Intermediate Level
Explore the major improvements of Project Server 2010:
- Demand Management
- Portfolio Analysis
- Timesheets and task progress tracking
- Business Intelligence and Reporting
In this lab we will walk you through entering proposals, running workflow, discussion portfolio analysis, drilling into online project editing. We also discuss timesheeting and reporting and describe richness of the Reporting and Data Analysis area in Project Server 2010. |
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Speaker(s): Patrick Conlan, Microsoft Corporation & Siddharth Bhatia, Microsoft Corporation | 300 - Experienced Level
Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) provides a complete solution for development teams to develop great software. With TFS, software development teams can manage their requirements, track their bugs, execute their tests and get visibility into the progress and quality of the software product. Microsoft Project integrates tightly with TFS and provides project managers an end-to-end solution for planning and tracking the progress of software projects. In this session, we will discuss the benefits of Microsoft Project and Team Foundation Server for project managers and team members alike and demonstrate how project managers and team members can use Project 2010 and TFS 2010 to manage software projects. As a bonus, we will also preview Project Server and Team Foundation Server integration.
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Speaker(s): Daniel Zitter, Matan | 400 - Advanced/Expert Level
The Program manager's point of view differs from that of a project manager. During this session, we will showcase the difference between the needs of a project manager and a program manager. We will focus on the program manager's roles and responsibilities, the challenges, the amount of details and the integration points that he or she needs to manage.
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After highlighting the challenges, we will present program management scenarios in each of the project phases (Initiation, Planning ,Execution). We will conclude with real-world demonstrations of the activities the project and program manager do in each project stage. During these demonstrations we will focus on the difference between the tool's role and the manager's role. Some of the topics we will cover include: identifying project interdependencies, program critical path, program reporting, and much more.
The scenario will be based on real issues and requests ,that we encountered along the years with many customers, and the process, tools and reports we have implemented to accommodate the needs. Whether you are a program manager of a large program or a project manager in a program, you will learn valuable tips and techniques that will help you better leverage EPM in your job.
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Speaker(s): Tad Haas, Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
The Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solution and Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007 together provide the infrastructure and functionality you need to make project management and collaboration easier than ever across all levels of your organization. Combining the functionality of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 can help your organization create, manage, and collaborate on projects more effectively across the following three project phases:
- Demand Management
- Plan and Execute
- Business Insight
Are you new to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server? Are you interested in how it might improve your project management processes? Is your company deploying SharePoint today and you want to understand how it can be used with Project Server? If so, this is the session for you. Prior sessions will offer an overview of SharePoint, this one will discuss and demonstrate how it adds value to your EPM efforts and following sessions will describe how technically this can be accomplished.
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Speaker(s): Daniel Renier, Milestone Consulting Group | 400 - Advanced/Expert Level
Poorly constructed project plans are ineffective, and increase the challenge of successfully managing projects. Many scheduling tools including Microsoft Project make use of task dependencies to sequence activities and calculate schedules. Used appropriately, task dependencies create schedules with estimated completion dates that respond with precision to the dynamic events occurring in projects. When used incorrectly, task dependencies can create Gantt charts that are difficult to understand, schedules that are difficult to manage, and unreliable date estimates, all potentially leading to the abandonment of project schedules altogether.
In this session, Dan Renier from Milestone Consulting Group will provide real-world advice learned from helping several of the nation's most prestigious companies develop robust and reliable Microsoft Project schedules based on Milestone's YJTJ (Your Job Tool's Job)TM process for managing task dependencies.
This session will conclude by discussing how this simple set of rules will help you achieve more effective management of the smallest projects to the most complicated programs.
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Speaker(s): Hagit Landman, H. Landman Consulting | 300 - Experienced Level
EPM combines standardized project management processes and supporting tools to meet the organization's project management goals. Tools that provide a business solution for EPM are available from Microsoft.
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The PMI offers a set of proven project management processes described in the PMBOK. These processes are widely applied. Implementing an EPM solution that combines project management methodology and supporting tools to enable all project stakeholders in the organization to perform the defined processes effectively is not a simple task. It includes:
- Defining the organization project goals and objectives
- Defining the project management methodology and processes aligned with the above goals
- Establishing tools that support the above processes
- Training all the stakeholders on the developed methodology and its implementation with the use of the supporting tools
- Ongoing support from the Project Management Office to ensure that all the stakeholders adhere to the methodology, and that they have all that they need to perform their work efficiently
In the presentation I'll show how easy it is to configure the EPM to support the Project Management methodology, and bring examples from real life projects. I'll provide examples of principles and guidelines needed to define, implement, and deploy an EPM solution in the organization.
Tackle issues that may arise in the implementation and how to solve them.
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Speaker(s): Nic Smith, Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
What is Microsoft BI? What is the Microsoft BI value proposition? How do the Microsoft products come together across SQL Server, SharePoint Server, and Microsoft Office to provide a complete BI offering from the BI platform through end user tools. Here is a recent slide deck for the Microsoft vision and strategy.
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Speaker(s): Jon Kaufthal, Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
Come learn how the next release of Project Professional can help you:
- Clearly see your team’s work over time, pinpoint problems, and drag-and-drop to make adjustments in the new Team Planner
- Sync your Project tasks to SharePoint, so that teams without Project Server can collaboratively plan and track their work
We’ll show you how these new features of Project Professional can help anyone from team leads to “advanced” project managers keep their plans on track and make the best use of their people’s time.
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Speaker(s): Bonny Lau, Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
Peter de Vries, Microsoft Corporation
Project is introducing major improvements in its scheduling capabilities that makes it easier as well as supports a broader set of planning scenarios. This session will cover all the enhancements from user-controlled scheduling, top-down planning, to resource leveling improvements.
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Speaker(s): Keshav Puttaswamy, Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
An overview of the investment areas and capabilities of the Project 2010 desktop and server. The session will cover the key bets of unifying project & portfolio management, improving execution with effective collaboration, enhancing user experience & appeal, and simplifying deployment & interoperability.
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Speaker(s): Eric Zenz, Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
Project 2010 is the most ambitious release of the Project desktop client in the last decade! Project managers of all maturity levels will find new tools to manage work in this version. Attend this session to learn how Project 2010 makes it easier to start, plan, track, and report on projects in your organization.
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Speaker(s): Heather O'Cull, Microsoft Corporation | 300 - Experienced Level
A complete overview of the reporting capabilities provided by the Project client both in 2007 as well as the enhancements in 2010. If a key part of your job is to communicate project information effectively to the team and stakeholders, this session is for you!
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Speaker(s): Treb Gatte, Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
EPM is all about getting visibility and insight into work in the organization. This session will cover Microsoft's BI vision and how the built-in capabilities in Project Server 2010 supports creating better reports, KPIs, and dashboards.
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Speaker(s): Pradeep GanapathyRaj, Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
Demand management is a key investment area in the next release of Project Server. This session will provide an overview of how organizations can define a process for demand management including setting up a workflow and defining the business case. The session will also cover the end-user experience for creating new project requests.
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Speaker(s): Luke Humphrey, Microsoft Corporation | 300 - Experienced Level
Catalin Olteanu; Microsoft Corporation
Project Server 2010 will have portfolio analytics integrated into Project Server. This session will cover the capabilities around business driver prioritization, portfolio optimization, and the new portfolio planning capabilities.
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Speaker(s): Treb Gatte, Microsoft Corporation & Shilpi Sinha, Microsoft Corporation | 300 - Experienced Level
This session demonstrates how to build reports, KPIs, and dashboards using the various Microsoft BI technologies that are part of Project Server 2010.
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Speaker(s): Eric Zenz, Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
This session will demonstrate the enhanced server scheduling and browser-based project editing capabilities with Project Server 2010.
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Speaker(s): Patrick Conlan, Microsoft Corporation | 300 - Experienced Level
Rohan Thakkar, Microsoft Corporation
There are some major improvements on tap in Project Server 2010 aimed at making it easier for end-users to enter time whether it is for reporting progress to the project manager, filling out a timesheet, or both.
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Speaker(s): Miguel Morales, Straight Line | 200 - Intermediate Level
Developing a Mature Resource Management Model.
- Common objectives of resource management
- Resource management challenges
- Cultural implications
- Steps of maturing resource management
- Example / case study of this model and a Project Server 2007 demonstration to show how Project Server 2007 can be used to enable effective Resource Management
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Speaker(s): Patrick Conlan, Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
Alex Sourov, Microsoft Corporation
Timesheets and task tracking are a key capabilities in a successful EPM deployment. Project Server 2007 allows end-users to report progress giving organizations the controls they need to effectively track time. |
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Speaker(s): Maryam Gholami, Microsoft Corporation | Level TBD
- Did you know 70% of users selecting Project, also select and utilize Visio as well?
- Did you know that Visio is the worldwide leader in diagramming and contextual data visualization with 15+ million users, with more than 80 diagram types?
Come to this session to hear the exciting story of Visio and Project 2010, better together!
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Speaker(s): Gideon Bibliowicz, Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
SharePoint provides Microsoft customers and partners a platform to build extraordinary collaboration solutions that encompass content management, business intelligence, social computing and enterprise search. This session is aimed at providing an overview of the SharePoint platform, why SharePoint offers a compelling value to the enterprise today and how it enables MS-Project users to create value for both employees and customers. This session will also provide a brief sneak peek into new features coming in SharePoint Server 2010.
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Speaker(s): Cindy Lewis & John White, IIL | 200 - Intermediate Level
Sometimes running projects where you need to do more with less can be difficult, especially in deciding how to apply these optimizations to time, budget, and resources within your schedule. Analyzing your schedule to identify critical problems is the recommended way to see where you are and plan an approach to correcting it. In the section on time, you will see how to compare the schedule against corporate targets and shorten the critical path to meet deadlines. In the budget section, you will see how to set a corporate budget and compare against planned costs. Expensive tasks will be identified and cost-reducing measures will be applied. In the resource section, resource shortages will be identified and options to work with those limitations will be discussed. Finally, a technique to modify the critical path, to include resource limitations, will be presented to see what a resource constrained critical path looks like. |
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Speaker(s): Robert Happy, PM Practice, Inc. | 200 - Intermediate Level
Microsoft Project 2010 has new and exciting easy to use, powerful planning, tracking and communicating tools. With this short tips and tricks session we will enable you to review the benefits of using Microsoft Project 2010. You will see how to get up and running fast, while obtaining a foundation of success to enable utilization of Microsoft Project 2010 throughout the organization.
This session has three primary modules that can be applied to any type of project:
1. Planning
Learn how to easily and effectively set-up your project plans using all the enabling new tools in Microsoft Project 2010. We will walk you through a proven effective planning process using project management best practices for planning your scope, timeline (schedule) and cost (resources) in Project 2010. Learn how to plan the right way!
2. Communicating
Effective communication on any project is key to your success and it is never an easy job. In this module we will walk you through the key communication tools to generate reports you need to be successful in a format your various stakeholders want to see. Whether it is communicating to project team members, senior management, or project customers, we will walk you through the vast array of new communication tools available to you to generate custom reports in a format your audience desires. With Microsoft Project 2010 you will be in the communication “driver” seat.
3. Tracking and Analyzing
Once a project begins, managing change and keeping your project on track has never been more effective than with Microsoft Project 2010. Learn how to manage scope creep and easily deal with the impact of change on your projects’ constraints. You will also learn how to manage towards a deadline and understand your critical path and the controlling factors to your completion. There are powerful new analysis tools in Project 2010 to make it easier for you to better manage your project and make more effective decisions.
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Speaker(s): Michael Jordan, Microsoft Corporation | 400 - Advanced/Expert Level
MCS led session that will dive deep into analyzing customer EPM environment and sharing the best practices on troubleshooting and tuning the performance.
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Speaker(s): Adrian Jenkins, Microsoft Corporation | 300 - Experienced Level
Project Server 2010 will leverage SharePoint 2010 and there are a number of new capabilities and tools that make it easier for deploying Project Server in a SharePoint farm. In addition, this session will cover how to administer Project Server effectively using some of the new capabilities such as departmental custom fields.
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Speaker(s): Adrian Jenkins, Microsoft Corporation | 200 - Intermediate Level
Soroush Salehian, Microsoft Corporation; Rohan Thakkar, Microsoft Corporation
Get answers to some common Project 2007 support questions. As this is meant to be a chalk talk we encourage you to bring your own questions for the Questions and Answers portion of this session.
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Speaker(s): Michael Jordan, Microsoft Corporation | 300 - Experienced Level
In this session, we discuss Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 disaster recovery options and best practices. We discuss how to recover from a catastrophic failure on your Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007/Project Server 2007 farm, including what your options are for recovering from a loss of any component of your farm, like Microsoft SQL Server, application server, or disk. We also present farm and database restore options. This webcast is part of a series targeted at IT professionals.
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Speaker(s): Patrick Conlan, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Corporation & Michael Jordan, Microsoft Corporation | 300 - Experienced Level
Get answers to some common Project Server 2007 performance tuning questions from experts from the engineering team and Microsoft Consulting Services. As this is meant to be a chalk talk we encourage you to bring your own questions for the Questions and Answers portion of this session.
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Speaker(s): Todd Klindt, Solanite Consulting | 400 - Advanced/Expert Level
Shane Young, Sharepoint 911
Are you a SharePoint administrator that's been thrust into the job of keeping SQL happy whether you want to or not? In this session we cover how SharePoint uses SQL and how to keep SQL happy. We look at which version of SQL is right for your farm, how maintain it, and some of the options you have for backing it up. By the end of this session you will no longer be afraid of SQL.
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Speaker(s): Jean-Francois Lesaux, T.R. Sloan & Bulent Guzel, Microsoft Corporation | 300 - Experienced Level
This session will show you how to make the EPM system work for you by deploying a powerful reporting solution based on the new EPM Report Pack. The new EPM Report Pack is composed of 30 reports providing Management, Governance and Business reporting. In this session, several demonstration will show how to deploy, integrate and customize the reporting solution in your EPM environment.
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Partner Led Session
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The Developer “icon” denotes programmability interfaces overview, usage, best practices as well Business Intelligence/Reporting sessions. It excludes sessions that showcase value of existing solutions developed either by partner or Microsoft that do not expose code.
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Denotes Instructor Led Lab. During this session you will use one of our lab computers and follow the instructor walking you through the script step by step. Number of lab assistants will be around to address your questions!
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Getting more Results by Getting Back to Basics: Using Microsoft Project / Server & SharePoint Best Practices to Achieve Results and Organizational Culture Change
Project 2010 - Programmability
Project Professional 2010 Overview