Archive for March, 2010
How To Get Started In Social Media When You Have Nothing To Say
31 March 2010Is this the first in a series? Don’t know. But it is the first 30-minute session.
Date: April 12 2010
Time: Eastern: 2pm, Pacific: 11am, GMT: 7pm, CET: 8pm
Location: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-project-shrink
The number one argument I hear why professionals are not engaging in social media:
“I have nothing to say.”
or it’s twin
“I don’t know what to say.”
In this 30 minute “lunch” session (someone must be having lunch at this time) I will show you ways to start engaging in social media when you don’t know what to talk about. And how to find out what it is you want to say (seriously, you have a story to tell).
The format is fast and simple:
15 minutes presentation
15 minutes Q&A.
And, yeah yeah, it’s free.
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How To Get Started In Social Media When You Have Nothing To Say
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Project Server 2010 Webcast – 8:00AM Pacific Time Wednesday March 31st
31 March 2010Don’t miss tomorrow morning’s TechNet Webcast: Managing the Project Life Cycle with Demand Management!
Here’s some details :
Language(s):
English.
Product(s):
Microsoft Office Project,Microsoft Project 2010.
Audience(s):
IT Decision Maker,IT Generalist.
Duration:
60 Minutes
Start Date:
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Event Overview
Demand Management, a new feature in Microsoft Project Server 2010, captures work proposals in one place and takes them through a multi-stage governance process using a SharePoint workflow model. In this presentation, we provide an overview of Demand Management and its importance in managing project life cycles, and we explain how to configure Demand Management and the required components.
Presenter: Rolly Perreaux, Senior EPM Consultant / Instructor, PMO Logistics Inc.
Rolly Perreaux is a senior enterprise project management (EPM) consultant and instructor for PMO Logistics Inc., a company that specializes in EPM consulting services and training. Rolly has more than 25 years business experience and holds various designations from the Project Management Institute (PMP), Microsoft, Compaq, IBM, CheckPoint, and CompTIA, and he has just been awarded a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Microsoft Project. Rolly’s detailed dossier can be viewed at www.pmologistics.com/bio/rollyperreaux.htm, and he frequently blogs at http://rperreaux.spaces.live.com.
View other sessions from Microsoft Project: Align People, Work, and Priorities
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Check out these other recent webcast recordings in case you missed them live:
Original Air Date: March 24, 2010
Original Air Date: March 10, 2010
TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Project 2010 Portfolio Analysis (Level 200)
Original Air Date: February 26, 2010
Microsoft Office System Webcast: Project Risk Planning and Microsoft Office Project 2007 (Level 200)
Original Air Date: February 23, 2010
TechNet Webcast: Resource Management in Microsoft Project 2010 (Level 200)
Original Air Date: February 23, 2010
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Plan for Authentication in Project Server 2010
31 March 2010Project Server 2010 topics for authentication are currently up in beta on TechNet at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee922606(office.14).aspx.
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I completed my SharePoint Saturday Arabia Session
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Project Server 2010 Webcast: Managing the Project Life Cycle with Demand Management
31 March 2010Another Project Server 2010 “must see” webcast on Wednesday morning, March 31, 2010 8:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada): Managing the Project Life Cycle with Demand Management
Demand Management, a new feature in Microsoft Project Server 2010, captures work proposals in one place and takes them through a multi-stage governance process using a SharePoint workflow model. In this presentation, we provide an overview of Demand Management and its importance in managing project life cycles, and we explain how to configure Demand Management and the required components.
Learn from one of our Project MVPs: Rolly Perreaux why this great new capability of Project Server 2010 is a major enhancement:
As usual to stay on top of upcoming and past Microsoft Project webcasts, subscribe to the following RSS: http://www.microsoft.com/events/series/epm.aspx?tab=rss
For instance if you missed it, check out this other must see webcast from Michael Jordan: TechNet Webcast: Project Server 2010 - Performance Part 2: Architecture, Sizing, and Capacity (Level 300)
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Project Server, PowerShell and the 2010 Scripting Games
31 March 2010Within the blogging community at Microsoft we get plenty of “opportunities” (aka requests) for cross product announcements. Occasionally they catch my eye and today was one of those days. You may have noticed a new badge in my left NAV area (unless you are reading the RSS feed… so click the link) announcing the 2010 Scripting Games. PowerShell is going to be so useful for SharePoint and Project Server 2010 – for deployment, management as well as monitoring and troubleshooting, so if you want to improve your scripting skills, or learn as you go – try the Scripting Games.
For other Project PowerShell resources see the TechNet article at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee662497(office.14).aspx, the MSDN Code Gallery cmdlets samples from Mike Shughrue at http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/pj14PowershellPSI and of course, the Scripting Guys’ blog for the broader topics and find things you can do with PowerShell that you never thought you needed to do!
Enjoy!
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Tips and Tricks: Add a custom bar to your print legend
31 March 2010A popular request for printing project plans is have the legend display a custom bar that you’ve created in your project to highlight specific tasks. For example, if you want your printed project to display pink bars tasks in your project to indicate proposed task cuts AND you want the legend on the printed report to display this custom bar, you need to do more than just format specific bars with a new color. You also need to create a custom bar style that matches the bar formatting. Let’s look at this more carefully.
1. Before you do anything else, format the individual task bars by right clicking on them and selecting Format Bar. (Or select multiple bars by using Ctrl + click.) In the example, I formatted two bars in pink to make them display more clearly. If you were to print the project at this point, the pink bars would print correctly, but the print legend would not indicate the significance of the new bar color.
2. Now it gets a little tricky. After formatting the individual bars, create a style for the new bar. On the Format Menu, click Bar Style. (If you’re using Project 2010, On the Format tab, click the down arrow on Format, and then click Bar Styles.)
Note Keep in mind that normally you create a bar style to format specific types of tasks (like milestone or critical tasks) throughout your project without manually formatting all the bars. But in the case of improving the usability of the print legend, you need to create a new bar style as a type of workaround.
3. Go the end of the list of bar styles, and type a name for the new bar style, for example, “Proposed Cut”.
4. Click in the Appearance column for the new bar, and give the bar a new color, for example, “Fuchsia.” (OK, fuchsia not pink.)
5. In the Show For column, indicate which task types will be formatted with the new bar. In the example, I indicated that “Normal, Summary” tasks will be formatted with the new color. Entering “Normal,Summary” in the Show For column prevents the bar from appearing on other non-customized bars in your Gantt Chart.
Your "custom" bar format will now appear on the print legend.
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Announcing April’s MPUG Melbourne : Resource Management, The Holy Grail
29 March 2010A
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Beach. Shorts. And Leadership.
29 March 2010Darren Rowse is an Internet celebrity. He is a full time blogger. He is making a good living from his blog ProBlogger.net. This Australian new media role model is writing about “how to make money from a blog”.
He is talking about a dream some people have. Not necessarily a vision of spending your days at the beach, in your shorts earning a living with your laptop. But nevertheless, this dream is oozing with “freedom”.
Problogger.net is one of the more popular blogs on the Internet. A lot of people comment on his articles.
Every. Single. Time.
They provide positive feedback. They discuss among each other.
Darren’s readers are all on the same journey. Beach. Shorts. Freedom. And, oh yeah. Money.
Darren’s influence is huge. He holds no formal authority over his crowd. He doesn’t pay them any money. Yet, he can make them move.
He is creating a vision. He is teaching by example. He motivates with words. He provides feedback to the crowd.
This is leadership.
Projects need leadership. Teams need motivation. With vision, the right words and positive feedback.
By observing how Darren operates on Problogger.net you can learn a lot about effective leadership. This is true for a lot of blogs and social networks on the Internet.
By participating on the Internet, you can train your leadership skills. The skills you need to create a small online community around your blog, are the same skills you use for leading your project team.
Same.
Well. Almost.
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Beach. Shorts. And Leadership.
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Announcing a Business Intelligence focus on Project 2010
29 March 2010
Jan tells me….
We are pleased to announce a new TechCenter for Project 2010 focused on Business Intelligence! Based on the partner and customer feedback we are concentrating all technical information about BI in Project 2010 into one single location. The BI center currently offers number of Presentations, WebCasts links to blogs and technical articles as well as links to the “uber” BI center for SharePoint 2010. As you know we leverage the power of SharePoint 2010 in Project 2010 – this is especially true for reporting– if you want to learn basics about SharePoint 2010 BI – the BI center for SharePoint 2010 is your best bet. If you are looking for specific information for Project 2010 – e.g. how to set up BI, create and customize reports – the BI center for Project 2010 is the place to go!
Business Intelligence Resource Center for Project Server 2010 exists in context of the “uber” as per the following illustration:
Q&A
Q: Is the content final or will it grow in the future?
A: The content of the BI Center for Project 2010 will continue to grow in the future as new content becomes available.
Q: Could I use Visio Services to visualize Project data?
A: Absolutely – you can use Visio Services, Performance Point Services as well as Excel Services to build reports and data visualizations in Project 2010. We are working on specific materials for this as well.
Q: I have been using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) in 2007 for data visualization. Could I continue using it in 2010?
A: You can still continue using SSRS reports against 2010 with minimal changes. People often look for securing their SSRS reports based on Project Server security – check this out.
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