MS/Project is Dead: Long Live MS/Project

As reported in Computerworld and discussed here, Microsoft has announced MS/Project 2007, a new version that offers some usability and performance enhancements.

Perhaps the bigger news is that Project Portfolio Server 2007 has been announced, leveraging UMT's technology (which Microsoft acquired last year). It has the requisite bubble charts, strategy alignment tools, and what-if simulations. It even includes governance workflow, something long missing from the Microsoft suite. This should give the other big EPM tools a run for their money.

One thing worth noting about the Computerworld article (below) is the 20 million user base for MS/Project. Considering that the most frequently used project management tool is still MS/Excel, and that there are plenty of other project managers using non-Microsoft products, it gives a sense of how many project managers there are in the world. The last estimate I had heard several years ago was 16 million. That number is most likely quite a bit higher now, perhaps double.

Microsoft Looks to Boost Project Software’s Appeal

Getting to grips with Project 2007

Microsoft Office Project Server 2007 - to be formal about it - has been on the price list and RTM (Released To Manufacturing) for nearly three months now. And it's still hard to find definitive manuals or books about how to configure and use many of the new features. There have been a number of white papers and promotional documents released. These typically address technical installation (up to a point) and quite a lot on the server side architecture.
But best practices for how to use the new time sheet feature, reporting the new budget category costs, using the new resource plan feature and so on are elusive.
Most information is being spread through blogs, such as Microsoft Office 2007 Project Blog and discussion groups.
Microsoft does offer courses which are loosely described as 200-300 level. Information on these can be found at the 'EPM University'. The curricula for the two courses offered at the moment do not look as though they answer the Best Practice questions. For now the best source is still individual experience!

Ford Microsoft Sync Digital Automotive Experience

Microsoft and Ford integrate Sync digital experience into Ford cars. The software will enable hands-free calling with voice activation, seamless transfer of phonecalls on car entry through Bluetooth, text to speech for phone SMS messages, and hands-free music management through voice activation. See Bill Gates discussion of Sync at the CES. ...

... "Sync offers consumers two ways to bring electronic devices into their Ford, Lincoln and Mercury vehicles and operate them seamlessly through voice commands or steering wheel controls: Bluetooth, for wireless connection of phones and phones that play music. A USB 2.0 port for command and control and charging of digital media players " ...

Via Microsoft: FORD TEAMS UP WITH MICROSOFT TO DELIVER SYNC; IN-CAR DIGITAL SYSTEM EXCLUSIVE TO FORD ...

Microsoft Live: Project Management App ...

Review of the Microsoft Office Live servicce by CNet ...

... "The Premium version has more back-office tools, like a project management application and a time manager. " ...

Via CNet: Link

Microsoft enters the project certification arena

This press release from Microsoft, timed shortly before the PMI Global Congress, announces a certification programme for users of Microsoft Project 2007. The new version of Project Server is due to be released in the New Year and aims to integrate further with other organisation systems and processes. Offering a standard for training does seem like a good idea. It will be interesting to see how the new certification from Microsoft, which has a reputation for setting its own standards, aligns with the PMBOK.
The announcement says the "training and certification product lines ... were developed after consulting the A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge ...".Microsoft Advances Its Project Management Technology and the Project Management Profession

Talent Development: Girls and IT Industry ...

Excellent idea by Microsoft to create that spark of interest in emerging female technologists. Q+A discussion with Microsoft diversity consultant ...

... "To help remedy that problem, the company supports initiatives and programs developed to attract and retain top female talent. One of those programs, DigiGirlz – organized as a summer camp with a focus on technology and now in its sixth year – has expanded to four states and the Redmond camp expanded from four days to five. " ...

Via Microsoft: Microsoft Expands DigiGirlz Summer Camp ...

IT Governance: Green Data Center ...

The information technology department can enable a green enterprise through smarter use of energy in the data center and on the desktop. Simple things, like Windows power management and double-sided printing, can make a difference. And, server virtualization ensures higher utilization rates and greater efficiency. ...

... "In today's world of high energy prices and green awareness, doing so should be a key element of IT governance at any organisation. " ...

IT Governance: Green Data Center: Via silicon.com: IT power crisis - what can CIOs do? ...

Microsoft Gates Retirement: Fast Follower ...

Bill announces his transition to full-time philanthropy, leaving a successful business career, punctuated with fast-follower strategies in the marketplace. ...

... "The IBM deal also highlighted another aspect of Mr Gates's success: his opportunistic use of breakthroughs made by others to seize the initiative in a new technology market. " ...

Microsoft Gates Retirement: Fast Follower: Via Financial Times Business News: Innovator, motivator and canny businessman ...

Project Management Institute: NA Congress ...

PMI NA Congress this fall with Microsoft as hosting sponsor. ...

... "Project Management Institute (PMI) will hold its North America congress in Seattle, Washington, USA, 21-24 October 2006. PMI Global Congress 2006-North America is the major project management educational and networking event of the year. " ...

Project Management Institute North American Congress to be Held 21-24 October in Seattle, Washington: Via Yahoo! Finance

Project 2007 Templates: Various Scenarios ...

Project 2007 will expand its repertoire of templates, to include scenarios such as Six Sigma DMAIC, new product development, merger and acquisition (M+A) evaluations, etc. ...

... "In Project 2007, we have added about 25 new templates to cover additional project scenarios. Each template suggests milestones, dependencies, and generic resources to give you a starting point. Obviously, you may change the proposed work breakdown structure to fit your needs. " ...

Project 2007 Templates: Various Scenarios: Via MSDN: Microsoft Office Project 2007 : New Templates in Project 2007 ...

Enterprise Project Management: Microsoft Specialization ...

Microsoft partner achieves specialization in enterprise project management ...

... "Berbee Information Networks Corporation has become the first Microsoft Gold Certified Partner headquartered in the Midwest to achieve the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) specialization. The specialization, achieved in April 2006, recognizes Berbee's expertise in project management consulting for businesses needing tools and processes to effectively manage projects across entire organizations. " ...

Enterprise Project Management: Microsoft Specialization: Via Berbee: Berbee Earns Microsoft Enterprise Project Management Specialization

Microsoft Project 2007

Thursday's Microsoft Webinar was the latest event in the gradual unveiling of the future version of Project. It now has a name - Project 2007 - not really more imaginative than the development name of P12 but it does give a clue as to the intended release date. After the news about the postponement of Vista's release date, one can believe that Microsoft would tend towards caution rather than optimism in deciding a release year.
The product itself still shows its credentials as a beta release. The demonstration of the client functionality suffered from a couple of minor glitches. The functions shown include some which will be popular with people who have struggled with some of the constraints of earlier versions of MS Project.
The multi-level undo feature - instead of the current single step undo - gets a lot of attention. It does seem to have been a major technical challenge to provide the function and now one can afford to be a little less careful about keeping track of changes as you go through an editing session.
A neat feature is change highlighting. This is the one that shows what dependencies cause a task date to be the way it is. Useful when you have a lot of predecessors, calendar constraints and other factors.
Anyone who has finally mastered the nuances of Outline codes and custom fields will have a new learning experience. Outline codes are no more. They are just treated as another variants of custom fields with fixed value lists.
And more functions for organisations that track costs - resources can be flagged as budget resources and assigned at the project summary level.
Something that sounds like a good idea but will probably take a bit of getting used to is the notion of team resources. Resources are defined as belonging to a team using a custom field value - and the team resource is assigned to the task. Sounds like you need to be careful about working with max units, particularly if a team member could be on multiple teams.
Plenty to get familiarised - and plenty of time to get familiar before the roll-out.

Microsoft Vista Project Management: Scope or Schedule Management ...

Microsoft struggles with Vista project management. Working the triple constraint, Microsoft adjusts scope and schedule - and, likely, costs are increasing as well. Article explores options for improvement, including ruthless schedule management, better requirements management, etc. ...

... "With Vista, Microsoft originally hoped to make major changes to the underlying code, adding in a new file storage mechanism called WinFS, along with all-new graphics and communications methods. It eventually had to pull out WinFS entirely and scale back several other architectural changes in order to make the project more manageable. " ...

Microsoft Vista Project Management: Scope or Schedule Management : Clouds over Redmond: Via ZDNet Australia ...

IT Strategy: Corporate Interests Can Influence Architecture and Career Path ...

Ancedotal evidence illustrates the impact of external forces when enterprise architecture transformation is being considered. Those forces can impact the architecture and the career path of those involved. Who said enterprise architecture wasn't risky business? Ethan Butterfield reports on the status of Massachusetts' Enterprise Technical Reference Model. ...

... "Without mentioning Microsoft by name, John Weathersby, executive director of the Open Source Software Institute of Oxford, Miss., said powerful corporate interests used their leverage to aggressively fight the state’s initiative. It demonstrates the lengths to which some will go to try to slow the adoption of open standards within public-sector IT environments, he said. " ...

IT Strategy: Corporate Interests Can Influence Architecture and Career Path: Via GCN: Loss of advocate Quinn doesn’t slow down state’s effort ...

Microsoft Office Project "12" - new blog

Anyone who's tried to reach Dieter's P12 blog recently will have seen a link to this new one. Dieter's moved on to another position within Microsoft but the communication goes on. As the launch date gets closer, we can expect the volume and precision of the information about Microsoft's new version of Project to increase. Read it here first!
Microsoft Office Project "12"

Project Management: Microsoft Office Live Beta Now Available ...

Office Live Beta is now available to support collaborative project management in a software-as-a-service model ...

... "the Microsoft Office Live Collaboration service offers small businesses password-protected online workspaces (intranets and extranets). Capabilities include customer management, project management, sales and marketing management, employee management, and company administration, as well as password-protected internal shared sites to facilitate collaboration among employees, customers, suppliers and other business partners. " ...

Project Management: Microsoft Office Live Beta Now Available: Via Microsoft: Microsoft Launches Beta Program for Microsoft Office Live Services: Internet-based services include free Web site, domain name and e-mail accounts ...

Microsoft on Scrum & Extreme Programming

One way Microsoft's development teams intend to deliver products to market faster is through the use of agile development methodologies, such as extreme programming and Scrum. You may have seen some of our many other blogs on Scrum.

David Treadwell, corporate vice president of the .Net Developer Platform group at Microsoft, said that while Microsoft welcomes the use of methodologies like Scrum, "we're not mandating them, but we're encouraging them..."

"The other is extreme programming—the concept where you might have two people working on a given piece of code and the idea is that two minds are better than one. Because you can find problems faster."

Scrum process can not only be used for developing applications, but also to test them for quality assurance sign-off.

Thanks to e-Week for the news. For more see:
Microsoft Lauds 'Scrum' Method for Software Projects

Microsoft Project P12

More news from Redmond. Thanks to Dieter for being the man on the inside who's prepared to publish information about the new features of the new version of Microsoft Project due for release later this year.
The last couple of posts in his blog give more detail about some of the features we can expect. In particular the functions that allow a user to create activity lists and resource plans through a browser shouldmake the first iterations of planning a project simpler.
Dieter's ProjBlog

Microsoft Poised to Take the IT EPM Market

It's like the tortoise and the hare. For years, Microsoft has been evolving its low-cost MS/Project suite and capturing the IT market, while mega-EPM providers such as Mercury, Niku, and Planview focused on meeting enterprise portfolio needs.

Now things are about to change. As we reported a few weeks ago, Microsoft acquired UMT, a leading EPM consulting firm. This brought technology and expertise to enable Microsoft to release a truly enterprise-driven product. Since Microsoft still owns the IT market by a wide margin, this will no doubt steer IT organizations in this direction. Whether other industries follow suit remains to be seen.

Microsoft has code-named their new product Microsoft Office Project "12". It is expected to be delivered in the second half of 2006, so design work has been well underway.

For more details about what Project "12" will offer, see PMForum's news update...

PMFORUM, Connecting the World of Project Management PMFORUM Breaking News: MICROSOFT ANNOUNCES NEW INNOVATIONS IN ENTERPRISE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Scrum: Microsoft Adopts For Project Speed ...

In keeping with our scrum theme, this method focuses on delivering value early in the product lifecycle. Simon Avery reports on Scrum software development method employed by Microsoft to accelerate new product cycle time to market. ...

... "To get its classified system to market as fast as possible, Microsoft is relying on what it calls the scrum method of software development, which involves a very small team of engineers. For the on-line classified product, code named Fremont, there are just six developers. " ...

Via The Globe and Mail: Executive Decision: Classifieds force sluggish Microsoft to scrum

Additional resources on Microsoft and scrum ...

Via Microsoft: Download details: Project 2003 Tool: Scrum Solution Starter: "Scrum is an Agile project management practice that employs short iterations and continuous improvement. The Scrum solution starter extends Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003 or Project Standard 2003 and enables project managers to perform basic Scrum work. "

Via Chris Flaat's WebLog : People are not fungible resources: "We are currently using both Scrum and more traditional project management on several efforts going on within our product unit, and I thought I'd share some learnings. Something we're running into is that getting people dedicated to one effort can be hard, depending on the management style of the relevant managers. "

Software Tools and Methods: "This presentation started with a brief context-setting look at why Agile approaches are gaining in popularity. It then discussed the fundamental principles that are common to most Agile methods, and used the Scrum approach to give a more detailed view by example on how Agile projects work. "

Project Server 2003 Service Pack 2a (SP2a)

For anyone who got caught by the first release of Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Project 2003, your cries have been heard. As the release page for Service Pack 2a says, it includes stability improvements resulting from the Online Crash Analysis. They don't say whether the problems users had with Outline code value lists were also a cause for this new release but they are reported to have been fixed.
Download details: Project Server 2003 Service Pack 2a (SP2a)

Microsoft to Acquire UMT IP.

With the next version of Microsoft Project in pre-release beta, this may be a little late for Microsoft to really include UMT Portfolio Management into P12 but this is certainly a move in that direction. See the MS press release at Microsoft to Acquire UMT, a Leading Provider of Portfolio Management Software and Solutions.

CIO ITStrategy: XBox Approach ...

Gartner recommends that we expand our horizons and understand emerging and consumer technologies to support the next wave of IT strategy. ...

... "The analyst group says technology professionals should see, touch and use at least three of the following in 2006: 1. Web based micro-applications such as Writely.com or Num Sum; 2. Flickr; 3. A new generation of consoles such as Nintendo Revolution or Xbox 360; " ...

CIO ITStrategy: XBox Approach: Via CNET: Gartner: IT managers should use Xbox ...



IBM delivers Power-based chip for Microsoft Xbox 360 worldwide launch: "Microsoft's aggressive timetable required that IBM take the Xbox 360 chip design from concept to full execution in just 24 months, said Ilan Spillinger, IBM Distinguished Engineer and director of the IBM Design Center for Xbox 360. IBM's success in delivering the chip to meet Microsoft's worldwide launch illustrates our commitment to innovative processor design that builds on IBM's wealth of intellectual property. The Xbox 360 project called upon the full range of IBM's On Demand technology capabilities, including our Engineering & Technology Services unit for custom design work and our world wide manufacturing resources to meet the aggressive time to market demands for this advanced microprocessor, said Jim Comfort, vice president and Strategic Client Executive, IBM Systems and Technology Group."

Microsoft Security: Risk Govern Audit ...

Microsoft is making concerted effort on security management, appealing to technology independent partners with services focused on security policy, governance, compliance, risk assessment, risk management and auditing, while balancing its focus on infrastructure security, the technical perspective. ...

Microsoft Security: Risk Govern Audit: Via ISACA: Microsoft Partner Program Includes ISACA Certification in Restructure of Its Security Solutions Competency ...

... "Having a skilled and innovative security partner ecosystem is central to the company’s approach and, therefore, a large part of the effort has been significant changes to the Microsoft Partner Program, Security Solutions Competency, announced this week in partnership with long-established certification programs from Information Systems Audit and Control Association® (ISACA®) and International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2. " ...

Michael Domingo provides update on Microsoft's updated approach to security, which balances the technical with the strategic security management: risk, govern, audit. ...

Via Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine: Security Competency Gets Revamped

... "Microsoft says it has taken a technology agnostic approach within its Security Solutions competency, splitting it into two specializations that address technical issues and the other that looks at security policy and risk management, governance, and auditing. " ...

With more than 47,000 members who live and work in more than 140 countries, the Information Systems Audit and Control Association® (ISACA®) is a recognized worldwide leader in IT governance, control, security and assurance. Founded in 1969, ISACA sponsors international conferences, publishes the Information Systems Control Journal®, develops international information systems auditing and control standards, and administers the globally respected Certified Information Systems Auditor™ (CISA®) designation, earned by more than 40,000 professionals since inception, and the Certified Information Security Manager® (CISM®) designation, a groundbreaking credential earned by 5,200 professionals.

Microsoft Gates Ozzie Memo: Project Management Services ...

Microsoft Gates Ozzie Memo: Project Management Services: Via InfoWorld: Gates/Ozzie Memos-full text ...

... "Innovations abound from small developers ? from RAD frameworks to lightweight project management services and solutions. Many startups treat the ?raw? internet as their platform. At the grassroots level, such projects actively use standards such as vCards and iCal for sharing contacts and calendars. Most all use RSS in one way or another for data sharing. " ...

PMI Delaware Valley Tools Conference

An interesting morning on Saturday at Valley Forge for the Delaware Valley Chapter 2nd annual tools conference. Apart from chatting to a number of interesting people with a variety of project management tales to tell, there were the presentations.
Ken Barnhart gave the keynote address. His opening story about planning and executing an attack through a minefield against vastly superior numbers and with a number of strategic constraints during the first Gulf War gave a real world perspective to the phrase 'mission critical'.
One of his views that really resonated was dislike of the need for heroics. When the heroes are doing their stuff - commandeering resources, breaking rules, ignoring risk management - the rest of the organisation has to suffer all the disruption and clean up afterwards. The overall theme was 'Value Recovery' with a strong emphasis on doing the work that adds the most value.
And then there was the closing quote 'the man who says he can - and the man who says he can't - they're both right'. Deeep!
For the tools presentations, one could choose three out of seven presentations. The Planisware, Primavera and Microsoft Project (by Ken Barnhart) sessions were all interesting and well presented. Eventually one was left with a sense of deja vu.

Project 12

The project software community is buzzing with the rumours about the functionality that will come with the successor to Project Server 2003. Microsoft has generally clamped down on information release with Non-Disclosure Agreements. This blog gives an interesting glance behind the curtain and makes good reading.
Dieter's ProjBlog

Software as a Service: Microsoft Office Live: Project Collaboration ...

Microsoft Office Live will be released in beta in a software-as-a-service model (similar to Salesforce.com), which can support online project collaboration. ...

Via Scobleizer - Microsoft Geek Blogger: Matt Rolak says that Office Live is up

... "Matt Rolak links to the new Office Live site. " ...

... "Via Microsoft: Microsoft Office Live: Microsoft Office Live will offer you and your employees expert business management applications, such as customer, project, and document management tools, and a security-enhanced private Web site ... " ...

ITIL Leader: David Ratcliffe Pink Elephant

ITIL is the recipe for IT services management success. Philip Quinn catches up with David Ratcliffe, CEO of Pink Elephant. Pink Elephant is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with operations worldwide. Pink Elephant works with organizations, including many of the Fortune 500, to improve the quality of IT services through the application of established best practices, such as the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). ...

Via National Post: Flies around the world four times a year ...

... "We were the ones who launched this best-practice framework we support called the IT infrastructure library. If you think [in terms] of a restaurant ... it's the recipes you follow and the routines around how you keep the place clean... " ...

Additional PMThink References on ITIL:

• For Well-Rounded IT Project Management - Learn ITIL and PRINCE2


• IT Service Transformation Through ITIL Service Catalogs ...


• ITIL Certification BTO Software ...


• ITIL Helpdesk Transformation: Services Model


• ITIL IT Management Processes ...


• ITIL IT Service Management Differentiators


• ITIL Market Assessment: Podcast


• ITIL Microsoft Operations Framework Assessment ...


• ITIL Process Approach: Federated CMDB ...


• ITIL Process: Run IT Like Business ...


• ITIL Project: Cultural Implications ...


• ITIL Projects: Avoid Pitfalls ...


• ITIL Technology Standard Framework ...


• ITIL: IT Service Catalog: Alignment Focal Point ...


• Microsoft ITIL Sans CMDB ...


• Process Models: ITIL ITGovernance ...


• Ready or Not; Here comes ITIL


• Siebel CRM ITIL Ready: Helpdesk Capabilities ...

IT Governance: New Initiatives Executive Alignment

IT Governance still requires a degree of executive alignment before significant investments can be approved. Any delay can seem bureaucratic, however it is necessary to build an executive support network, or coalition, to align behind a major multi-year investment program. Lawrence M Walsh explores the challenges vendors face when they must align their sales cycles with public sector governance processes.

IT Governance: New Initiatives Executive Alignment: Via CRN: VARs Must Play Politics To Expedite Government Sales

... "Even with centralized IT governance, such as Takai's in Michigan, in which the CIO has budget and oversight of all IT deployments, it still takes time to build consensus for new initiatives. " ...

PMThink references on IT governance:

• CA Niku ITGovernance Growth Engine?


• Centralized IT Governance: Enterprise Architecture Modeling Tool


• COBIT Course: IT Governance Controls Framework ...


• Discussion on Distributed IT: Governance ...


• Does Architecture Visualization Enable ITGovernance?


• EPM Software IT Governance Market Growth ...


• From CIO Magazine - A Cry for Full-Cyle Governance


• Governance Alignment: Project Portfolio Management (PPM)


• Governance Software: OMB A123 Compliance


• IT Governance Common Themes ...


• IT Governance Integrated Application Development: Software Solution


• IT Governance Repeatable Processes ...


• IT Governance Road Map ...


• IT Governance Role: Architecture


• IT Governance Solution: Maturity Acceleration ...


• IT Governance Transformation: New York State CIO


• IT Governance: Application Services Flexibility or Efficiency?


• IT Governance: Board-Level Visibility ...


• IT Governance: Board of Directors ...


• IT Governance: SAP ESA Strategy


• IT Governance: Services Transformation ...


• IT Governance: Service Portfolio Management Applications ...


• IT Governance: Shift Investment to Business Value Opportunities


• IT Governance: The Board ...


• IT Governance: Value and Cost Measurement ...


• IT Governance; Where the Value of IT is Hiding


• IT Savvy: Governance Best Practices: Peter Weill


• Leadership and IT Governance


• Microsoft IT Governance Woes ...


• Process Governance Tool Upcoming ...


• Process Models: ITIL ITGovernance ...


• Project Management and Governance


• ProjectManagement ITGovernanceSoftware Linux Capable ...


• SOA and IT Governance ...


• SOA Governance: Best Practice Strategies Webinar ...


• SOA IT Governance


• Software Supports ITGovernance CorporateGovernance

Business Strategy: Align Objectives and Execute

IBM launches new software that enables workers and managers throughout an organization to align their personal and departmental objectives with business strategy and drive execution of their workplace activities ...

Business Strategy: Align Objectives and Execute: Via IBM: IBM Software Helps Employees at All Levels Align Their Objectives With Company Strategy ...

... "According to feedback from IBM's customers and partners, more companies are recognizing that while they have lots of data and a sound business strategy, the execution of the strategy needs improvement. IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution helps employees understand their company's strategy in concrete terms, focus on what is important, and remain current on status and risks. A department leader can use IBM Workplace for Business Strategy Execution to clearly communicate team objectives and how they fit into the company's strategy; link to and monitor internal and external dependencies that could affect the ability to reach objectives; track progress toward the objectives though intuitive scorecards and dashboards; and initiate actions to correct gaps in performance. " ...

PMThink references on strategy and alignment:

• Achieve Strategy Execution: Accelerate Plan Funding Support


• Business Continuity Project: Key Part of IT Strategy ...


• Business IT Alignment: Business-Relevant Metrics


• Business IT Strategy: Successful Alignment


• Governance Alignment: Project Portfolio Management (PPM)


• IT Alignment: Cost Benefit Analysis ...


• IT Governance: SAP ESA Strategy


• IT Strategy: Motorola Exec Podcast ...


• ITIL: IT Service Catalog: Alignment Focal Point ...


• Microsoft Framework: Business IT Alignment


• PMO Role: Align Business and IT ...


• Project Failure: A Success Strategy


• Project Management Strategy Integration Conference December2005


• PublicSector CIO: Enterprise View IT Strategy


• Software Aligns Project Management With Enterprise Strategy: Enhanced Portfolio Analytics ...


• Strategic Alignment: Project Portfolio


• Strategy: Visualize the Design ...

Microsoft Project Management Webcast: Upcoming ...

Microsoft Project Management Webcast: Upcoming: Via Microsoft: Microsoft Webcast: Getting the Most from Your People, Processes, and Projects with Effective Resource Management ...

... "Microsoft Webcast: Projects are the lifeblood of your business. Are your resources allocated appropriately? Do you have a sufficient understanding of costs and interdependencies between projects? In short, do you have the visibility you need? This webcast shows you how the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management solution helps you get the most value from your resources. Learn how to forecast resource usage in a multi-project environment; understand resource utilization, costs, and interdependencies across multiple projects ...

Start Time: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:00 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) " ...