BrightWork and SharePoint Project Management Webcasts
Webcasts are an excellent way for you to see SharePoint and BrightWork in action and hear from the experts about the benefits of using BrightWork to manage your projects on SharePoint.
SharePoint Project Office JumpStart
Get your SharePoint Project Office up and running in as little as three to four weeks!
Date: Tuesday, May 22nd
Time: 9am PT; 12pmET; 5pm GMT
The Project Office JumpStart uses best practices and a proven deployment approach to rapidly implement a fully working Project Office using Microsoft SharePoint and BrightWork.
Project Office JumpStart Benefits:
- Ideal for organizations challenged with project delivery, project visibility and project management methodologies.
- Rapid deployment of an automated project management office (PMO) tool.
- Implements a proven process for determining your organizational requirements.
- Utilizes industry experience to avoid common implementation pitfalls.
- Provides in-depth solution training for end users and technical staff on BrightWork.
- Allows organizations to pilot and showcase a world‐class project management solution – driving user adoption and PMO automation.
This webcast will present the SharePoint Project Office JumpStart, including a solution demo and an explanation of the deployment approach.
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Free SharePoint Project Management Template
Live Webcast: How to install it, how to use it, how to modify it.
Date: Wednesday, 9th May
The free Project Management Template from BrightWork will get you started managing projects with out-of-the-box SharePoint today. The template extends out of the box SharePoint 2010 to provide a collaborative workspace to manage a project.
Project teams will be able to capture and organize project goals, issues, risks, tasks and more. My Work reports, Gantt charts, discussion forums and team calendars will help project teams execute their work and stay connected. The template also has the option to sync with Microsoft Project.
Project status reports will give project managers and executives real-time project visibility, providing the information they require to make informed decisions and get work done.
All of these capabilities are available in the SharePoint Project Management Template from BrightWork. And it’s yours for free!
Join us for a short training session that will show attendees how to install the template, how to use it, and how to configure it. All attendees at the webcast will receive access to download the template, including a copy of the training recording.
The Shoot out!
Which Is The Best Solution For PPM?
Date: Tuesday, April 17th
Which is the best solution for Project and Portfolio Management? Excel or SharePoint or Project Desktop or Project Server?
Excel is likely in the hands of about 500 million licensed users and some say it is the most common solution for Project Management. SharePoint Server is considered by many to be the de facto industry standard platform for collaboration and Microsoft Project Professional 2010 has been widely acclaimed as the best ever release of Microsoft Project. Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 now has a task list that synchronizes with Microsoft Project while Microsoft Project Server is in the Gartner Group and IDC leaders quadrant.
All products have loyal communities of followers, but which is the best solution for PPM? And what if you choose more than one of the solutions - how do they integrate, plug and play - or do they?
This session will explain and demonstrate:
- how to use out of the box SharePoint to manage projects
- how to use the out of the box Microsoft Project to SharePoint sync
- the typical extensions made to the SharePoint/Project combination
- how to manage across projects in SharePoint, Project Desktop and Project Server
Extend SharePoint for PPM with Templates, Project Metrics, and Status Reports
Date: Thursday, March 15th
Time: 9am PT; 12pm ET; 5pm GMT
Microsoft SharePoint is the perfect solution for collaboration. The challenge is figuring out how to leverage it for work, project and portfolio management.
This live webcast will explain and demonstrate what SharePoint looks like when it is extended with templates, project metrics, and status reports to deliver a really smart platform for any organization that wants to manage varying types of work and projects. Attendees will also learn how to evolve/change project management with the flexibility needed to configure templates and reports in one central SharePoint environment.
Improved Schedule Management with Microsoft Project and SharePoint Integration
Featuring the New Project Management Templates in BrightWork Release 10
Date: Tuesday, March 6th
Time: 9am PT; 12pm ET; 5pm GMT
The launch of Microsoft SharePoint 2010 included a task list that synchronizes with Microsoft Project, extending the capabilities of both SharePoint and Project to manage work and projects.
BrightWork 10 for SharePoint, which released last week, includes a new collection of project management templates that enhances this out-of-the-box capability, making it easier and safer to use the Project to SharePoint Sync. This extended capability is based on extensive customer feedback, as well as a large amount of investigation and research into Sync best practices.
This webinar will fully explain and demonstrate the Microsoft Project to SharePoint sync usage scenarios, as well as the enhancements included in BrightWork 10.
Project Metrics, KPIs and Status Reporting on SharePoint
Featuring the New Project Metrics List in BrightWork Release 10
Date: February 22nd , 2012
SharePoint is the perfect collaborative environment for project management, but it’s difficult to get simple views of the progress, health, and risk level of a single project or of the projects in an entire portfolio.
This webinar will present and demonstrate the new reporting capabilities that were released this week in BrightWork 10 for SharePoint work, project and portfolio management. As well as new Periodic Status Reports and KPI’s, this session will show the new Project Metrics List that can automatically capture and track critical project metrics, assign warning and danger indicators to metric values, and visualize how the metrics have evolved over time (a day, week, month, quarter or year).
5 Templates for Project and Portfolio Management using SharePoint
Featuring New Templates from the upcoming BrightWork 10 Release
Date: February 8th, 2012
SharePoint is widely seen as the de facto industry standard for collaboration. It can also be extended with project management templates to successfully manage projects and portfolios. Project management templates from BrightWork mimic different levels of project management complexity, but can be easily configured for precise project control and visibility.
This live webinar will fully explain and demonstrate how SharePoint can be extended with templates to become a comprehensive project and portfolio management solution. This session will also feature a sneak peek at the new templates that will be released with BrightWork 10.
All attendees will receive a copy of the slide deck and webinar recording.
Manage Projects on SharePoint – Right Out-of-the-Box!
Date: January 24th, 2012
The release of SharePoint 2010 included many of the features required to manage work and projects, and even has the ability to sync with Microsoft Project. It is clear that the SharePoint team wants you to manage projects on SharePoint, the problem is that many organizations are not familiar with the functionality available out-of-the-box. In this 30 minute webcast, you will see why out-of-the-box SharePoint is such an awesome platform for collaborative project management in any organization.
Join us for a webinar in which Éamonn McGuinness will fully explain and demonstrate why SharePoint is the perfect solution for work, project or portfolio management. All attendees will receive a copy of the slide deck and webinar recording.
Customer Spotlight! SharePoint for Project Management: Allyis
Date: December 14th, 2011
Allyis is a provider of technology, consulting, and managed services in the areas of web, application and SharePoint development, project and program management, marketing, and business intelligence. They found that the organization lacked consistent project management processes or templates, and many project teams used different systems to track their project work.
In this webinar, Imran Sheikh, Senior Project Manager at Allyis, will explain and demonstrate how Allyis uses BrightWork on SharePoint to identify and standardize new processes, templates and a new methodology to ensure teams provide consistent information to all clients and project team members.
In this webinar, you will see:
- A custom Team Project Dashboard
- A standardized project management process and methodology
- Customized, team specific project templates
- A Project Plan template that integrates and syncs seamlessly with BrightWork
A Repeatable Model for Work and Project Management on SharePoint
Many organizations struggle to find a proven and repeatable model for project management within their organization. With project management templates on SharePoint, organizations can quickly and easily establish a project management process while maintaining the flexibility to manage projects of varying size and type. The “one-size-fits-all” approach does not work in project management, making SharePoint templates the perfect solution. SharePoint templates allow you to meet the various requirements of individual projects in a repeatable, yet flexible way.
Using SharePoint for Work, Project and Portfolio Management
Many organizations have already invested in SharePoint for general collaboration, but do not realize that it is also the perfect solution for collaborative project management. Out of the box, SharePoint 2010 has a feature set that can be used to mimic the project management structure required for projects of various types and sizes. Whether you are using SharePoint Sites and Workspaces for project organization or creating informative reports and digital dashboards to keep stakeholders and sponsors informed, you can utilize this features-rich product to work more efficiently and increase project success. We will also show you how SharePoint can be easily enhanced and extended to manage work, individual projects and portfolios of projects.
Some project management solutions are quite expensive and complex, in just 30-minutes we’ll show you how to make SharePoint a practical project management solution for any organization.
SharePoint for Project Management: Top 5 Features you get right out-of-the-box
Date Held: October 13th, 2011
SharePoint is a revolutionary platform for collaboration and information sharing. However, it can be challenging trying to manage one or more projects in SharePoint, if you do not know all of the functionality that is available right out-of-the-box. This webcast will explain and fully demonstrate the top 5 features you get with base SharePoint to manage projects and programs; from Project Lists, Automated Workflow, Microsoft Office Integration to the new Microsoft Project 2010 to SharePoint sync.
Project and Portfolio Management Using SharePoint
5 Case Studies that provide a glimpse into real life experiences – challenges and all
Date: September 20th, 2011
Microsoft SharePoint is a great platform for Project and Portfolio Management (PPM). It's economical, easy to use and an effective alternative to the more complex, costly PPM tools out there. The challenge is most organizations don't know how to leverage it for PPM.
This 30 minute webcast will walk you through 5 case studies detailing problems companies faced and the solutions they implemented. These case studies explore the entire spectrum of project management, from simple task management to full program management. Organizations including Children's Hospital Boston, Sheppard Mullin, Brandwise, Amsurg and the Georgia Farm Bureau have explained the challenges they faced and how templates and reporting on SharePoint delivered a practical solution to collaboratively and efficiently manage projects.
Deploy a Project Office on SharePoint in 60 Minutes!
Date: June 8th, 2011
SharePoint is an amazing tool for collaboration, but it can also be enhanced and extended for work and project management, making it the perfect platform for a project office in many organizations. In this webcast you will learn how to deploy a project office on SharePoint in just 60 minutes! We will show you how to quickly create projects, assign work items, integrate with Microsoft Project, generate reports across projects and complete the typical tasks associated with managing a project office.
Join us on Wednesday June 8th for a webcast in which Éamonn McGuinness of BrightWork will walk through two approaches for deploying a project office on SharePoint. He will fully explain and demonstrate how to deploy a project office and customize it to meet your project management needs. All attendees at this webcast will receive the webcast recording and slide deck.
Managing the Entire Project Lifecycle Using SharePoint
Date: April 27, 2011
Many organizations experience delays at various points throughout the project lifecycle. Microsoft SharePoint is a collaborative solution that can be used to eliminate these delays at any stage in that lifecycle, from project initiation to closure. In reality, different projects and different stages of the project require differing amounts of process and collaboration, making SharePoint the perfect solution. SharePoint can be customized and extended with templates and reporting to become a powerful project management tool, providing the necessary structure to successfully manage a project throughout its entire lifecycle.
Collaborative Project Management – a How-to Guide
Date Held: 24th February, 2011
Project management is a discipline, and as such can be quite difficult without the proper training. Some project managers have had formal training (for example PMI’s PMBOK or PRINCE2) and some lucky project managers instinctively know how to initiate, manage and close projects to success. Many project managers however, are thrown into the deep end with little or no training.
At BrightWork we believe we can assist such project managers with a step-by-step, how-to guide. Our Collaborative Project Management Guide is simple and easy to follow, and describes the typical stages, steps and sub-steps involved in starting, setting up, managing and closing a typical project.
