Advisicon 2010 News and Events

August: Advisicon Project Management Training Now Available Online!
Advisicon will start offering online training courses this month. The initial courses, Practical Project Management (Best Practices) and PMP Exam Prep, will begin September 27th. The courses are structured in 2 hour sessions for 5 consecutive days.

For more information about these and other courses, visit Advisicon Training. To register for online courses, visit the Advisicon Course Registration portal. More classes coming soon!

August: Advisicon Sponsors PMI Portland Chapter’s Professional Development Day!
Advisicon is sponsoring PMI Portland Chapter’s Professional Development Day event. The event will be held at the Doubletree Hotel – Lloyd Center in Portland, Oregon on August 18th. Advisicon President, Tim Runcie, will be presenting a session on Collaboration, Dashboards & More with Microsoft Project Server 2010. Advisicon Senior Project Advisor, Kevin Williamson, will also be presenting a session on SharePoint 2010: Project Management Powers Revealed! You do not want to miss these informative sessions!

For more information about PMI Portland chapter’s Professional Development Day, see PMI PDX PDD event. To register for the event, go to http://www.pmi-portland.org

Advisicon White Papers & Webcasts — Project Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010: Better Together
Advisicon recently released its third Microsoft White Paper and Webcast series—Project Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010: Better Together. The accompanying webcasts are Project Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010: Focus on Project Management and Project Server 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010: Focus on Collaboration.

The webcasts presented by Advisicon Senior Portfolio Advisor Tim Cermak and Advisicon Senior Project Advisor Manmeet Chaudhari highlight tools and integration features of SharePoint Server 2010 and Project Server 2010 that contribute to improved collaboration and communication in project management.

Previous white papers and webcasts in the series are Project Server 2010: A Look at Portfolio Strategy and Project Server 2010: A Look at Demand Management.

Advisicon White Papers & Webcasts — A Look at Portfolio Strategy
In Mid-June, 2010, Advisicon released its second Microsoft White Paper and Webcast series—A Look at Portfolio Strategy in Microsoft Project 2010. The first accompanying webcast was Overview of Project Portfolio Management using Project Server 2010 which was followed up with Deep Dive into Project Portfolio Management using Project Server 2010.

Our May 2010, White Paper and Webcast on Demand Management in Project Server 2010 was very well received.

Past Events:

Advisicon Sponsored the June 4th, 2010 meeting of the Bend Oregon SharePoint User Group
We presented on Project Server 2010 capabilities, and its deep integration with SharePoint Server 2010. The event was a great success! If your organization is interested in having Advisicon present a SharePoint info session to your group, contact us!

Microsoft Project 2010 has Been Released! 
Microsoft Project 2010 is now available to the public.  Prior to this, however; Advisicon kept up along the leading edge of Microsoft Project 2010's development, beta testing it, observing its new features and Demand Management capabilities, developing webcasts, and authoring a white paper for Microsoft that details Demand Management in Project Server 2010 from an end user's perspective.  Check out the White Paper!

Microsoft Project Server 2010 Demand Management Webcast Series Advisicon President and Microsoft MVP, Tim Runcie, and Advisicon Senior Portfolio Advisor Tim Cermak presented a four-part webcast directed at end-users and the concepts of Demand Management.  Advisicon also published a White Paper on the topic.  Information and additional details about the content of each webcast. Part 1: Overview Part 2: Create and Select Phases Part 3: Plan, Manage, and Close Phases Part 4: Test the Theory and Review

January 2010: TechNet Webcast: Microsoft Office Project 2010 Enhanced Project Management presented by Advisicon President Tim Runcie. "Discover how you can do more, better, faster, and cost effectively, by taking advantage of the new features in Microsoft Office Project 2010. In this webcast, we discuss how advanced new features in Project 2010 help you to better manage, control, and progress dynamic project schedules with amazing ease and simplicity." Register Online to watch a re-broadcast of this webcast

January 2010: Advisicon President Tim Runcie presented a lecture, "Project Fluidity: What are (and what will be) Project Management Tools" to the PMI Willamette Valley Chapter, Corvallis Branch. To hear Tim's lecture, click here.

Microsoft Project Conference 2009, Phoenix, AZ

Advisicon was a sponsor of the Microsoft Project 2009 conference and highlighted it's involvement in the Project community with an experience level 300, Partner Led Breakout session given by Advisicon's president, and Microsoft Project MVP, Tim Runcie.  The session was titled "Getting more Results by Getting Back to Basics: Using Microsoft Project / Server & SharePoint Best Practices to Achieve Results and Organizational Culture Change".