MPUG Lunch-N-Learn Event Description

Session date/time:   Friday, February 17, 2012; noon-2pm Central time

Location:

Microsoft, Edina Office

3601 West 76^th Street, Suite 275

Edina, MN  55435

Title:  Mastering Microsoft Project Scheduling – Part 1

Event description:  You’ve read the books, you’ve gone to class, and you’ve learned the techniques; but are you using the right approach to best manage a schedule, or do you just manage by the tips and tricks that you picked-up along the way?  PMI identifies the two primary project scheduling techniques as “Time-based scheduling” and “Resource-based scheduling”.  Do you know that the effectiveness of the way you set-up and manage a project depends primarily on the scheduling technique that best matches your project? 

This is an in-depth, three-part series of sessions that do not teach just about the features, but rather they demonstrate how to use the right features to properly and easily schedule and track your project.  These sessions assume the audience has a solid working knowledge of Microsoft Project.

·         Session one:  Overview of the scheduling techniques and general best practices that are used across all projects

·         Session two:  Best practices for setting-up and tracking a Time-based project schedule

·         Session three:  Best practices for setting-up and tracking a Resource-based project schedule

Note that these sessions build on one another to provide a complete picture of understanding how Microsoft Project is used to manage enterprise projects.  

New Microsoft Location:  Microsoft Edina, 3601 West 76^th Street, Suite 600 

Speaker:  Larry Christofaro, PMP, MCITP 

Larry Christofaro is a senior consultant for Tribridge, with over 15 years of project management experience.  Larry has combined his strengths in EPM architecture and project management to successfully manage EPM and Microsoft Project deployments for clients ranging from 50 – 2000 users.  Larry is a Microsoft Certified IT Professional and a Microsoft Certified Technical Specialist for MS Project and Project Server.