Microsoft just released new lab sessions, so you have over an hour to access Project Server 2010..for free!

Click through our website to start your session (http://www.advisicon.com/pro2010.htm). While you are there, watch Advisicon’s President (and Microsoft Project MVP) give his thoughts about the new product.

There is more buzz about the anticipated release of Microsoft Project 2010. We continue to work with the technology and I can say we are genuinely excited with this product.

The technology platform is more comprehensive, with project lifecycle and portfolio management threaded through the product, the end the user experience is much more rich with the business/program capabilities enhanced.

You can also test out Microsoft Project 2007, and various industry solutions at http://www.advisicon.com/web_demos.htm

Christophe Fiessinger and the Microsoft Project Team also post a number of valuable links and updates to the product on their blogs.

More soon to come, stay tune, and…

Get Microsoft Project 2010 Ready!

Regards,  

Tim Cermak

www.Advisicon.com

On January 27th, 2010, Advisicon’s President Tim Runcie was the host of a Microsoft worldwide Enterprise Project Management (EPM) webcast titled Microsoft Office Project 2010 – Enhanced Project Management. Tim showcased the abilities of Project 2010 as it relates to managing, controlling, and progressing dynamic project schedules.

In Tim’s webcast, he covers a number of significant updates and improvements which streamline the project management processes in Microsoft Project 2010 including:

• New Enhanced Interface
• User Controlled Scheduling
• Ease of Use, Large or Small (Existing features Supercharged)
• Time Saving Functions
• Task & Resource Modeling

In additiont to detailing how Project 2010 allows users to work with these processes with ease and simplicity, Advisicon sponsored the Webcast to count for 1 PDU from the Project Management Institute.  Please contact us for details on how to claim your PDU after watching the webcast! Additional information related to the Microsoft Project technology, including the pending release of Microsoft Project/Server 2010.

Click here to view the Webcast.

Web Link:  http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?EventID=1032432978&EventCategory=4&culture=en-US&CountryCode=US

Kevin Williamson, MCTS, PMP

Many project managers forget to include project planning in their Project schedules: reviewing and authorizing tasks and activities, project monitoring and reporting, reminding resources to update tasks and submit their updates, team meetings. These are involved in delivering successful projects, and are often the points that need the most attention from a project manager, so they should be included in your Project schedules.

One time PM tasks: Some tasks are specific to a particular stage of the project and occur only one-time, such as writing the project initiation request or developing the project budget. For these, create either a task in the sequence where you will perform it, like any other task.

Stage-specific Recurring Tasks: Some project management tasks are specific to a stage or an activity in a project. E.g., Monitoring and controlling project performance. Insert a Recurring Task at the bottom of the activity (just before the milestone for that activity). Project will automagically populate the date range of the recurring task based on date range of the activity. If it does not, you can adjust the date range manually.

Project-long Recurring Tasks: Many project management tasks are routine and recur throughout the duration of the project or from one point in the project to the end of a particular stage, such as project team meetings. Insert a Recurring Task at the project level (Outline Level 1) at the bottom of the Project Schedule, which will set it to coincide with the project start date and finish on the project finish date (for tasks that will occur throughout the project lifecycle) or at the date of end of the project stage at which this recurring task will end. Inserting a Recurring Task at the bottom of your schedule helps prevent inadvertently linking it with false dependencies and lengthening your schedule in unexpected ways.