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PROJECT KNOWLEDGE - the project learning newsletter

Dear Project Manager,

Volume 7, number 4

Welcome to the fourth Project Learning newsletter of 2009.  Firstly, a big thank-you to all those who provided me with feedback about newsletter content and frequency.  The unanimous opinion is that you'd like Project Learning newsletters to be published as regularly as possible, with as much content as we have at the time.  Therefore, starting with this newsletter, we're looking to get the newsletter out to you by the second Tuesday of each month.  That means you'll have more regular content from us and also you'll receive it at the same time; month in, month out.

In this month's newsletter you'll find the third instalment of our tips and tricks handouts.  Many of you have commented that these tips and tricks really do help with overcoming the day-to-day issues when using Microsoft Project in the real world.  I hope that this final instalment completes the set. 

Also, we've published our New Zealand public course dates for Project Management and Microsoft Project classroom-based courses for the remainder of 2009.  If you've been looking for some practical hands-on training, why not find a training course to suit you?

Sincerely

Andy Jessop
CEO and Founder
andyj@projectlearning.net

Microsoft Project Tips and Tricks - Part 3

In conjunction with Microsoft, we recently delivered a series of high-impact tips and tricks sessions to a wide and varied audience of Microsoft Project users in Wellington and Auckland, NZ.  Within the sessions, we covered subjects that included:

  • Calendarising your projects to match the way that you work.
  • Create flexible, structured schedules that plan what you need to do and how you need to do it.
  • Identify schedule changes quickly and easily, reviewing their impact on your project’s key deliverables.
  • Plan, allocate and delegate work to your team more effectively.
  • Create meaningful reports that meet the varying needs of all your project’s stakeholders.
  • Capture actuals, evaluate variances and re-plan work to keep your project on track.
  • Create programmes of work and manage key dependencies and resource utilisation across multiple projects.

We received some excellent feedback from the attendees, so we'd like to share these tips and tricks with you.  We've broken down the delegate handouts into three parts; following a typical project's lifecycle.  If you've already downloaded parts 1 or 2, just click on the link below for part 3:
Microsoft Project Tips and Tricks #3

To download parts 1 and 2, just click on these links:
Microsoft Project Tips and Tricks #1
Microsoft Project Tips and Tricks #2

All of these tips and tricks come from Project Mentor, the computer based training package for Microsoft Project.

Why not...

As one satisfied user told us
"I would describe it as something I use with great success. I am an experienced project manager with many years experience using MSProject - yet, I'm learning continuously. I highly recommend it for new PM's as well as the older dogs..."
MJ Fick, Cape Town, South Africa

Find out what other project managers are saying about Project Mentor

Microsoft Project tips and tricks 

New Zealand Public Course Dates: July - December 2009

Our 2009 public course schedule has been a great success.  We've had great feedback from delegates about our training venues and, most importantly, about the quality of the training and how it will help them to plan and manage projects more effectively.  We're therefore delighted to announce a schedule of public training courses for the remainder of 2009. 

Delivered at our centrally-located venues in Auckland and Wellington, this new schedule provides probably the most comprehensive set of Project Management theory and Microsoft Project training available within New Zealand.  To view the courses and scheduled dates, just click on the link below:

View courses and dates on the projectlearning.co.nz website

If you have a number of people to train, but don't have your own training facility, why not come to us?  Our training venues are also available for company-specific training events.  Just click on this link: to view our list of company-specific courses

 

Prize draw winners

The winners of the draw of new newsletter subscribers are:

June 2009

  • Syed Zaidi, Canada
  • Fashoto Stephen, Nigeria
  • Melody Moates, U.S.A.
  • Prasad Somashekar, Singapore
  • Rana Thakur, India

Each of them will receive a $10 Amazon voucher with the compliments of Project Learning.

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