Manage Projects with SharePoint (Upcoming Webcasts)
Webcasts are an excellent way for you to see SharePoint 2007 and BrightWork pmPoint in action and hear from the experts about the benefits of using BrightWork pmPoint to manage your projects on SharePoint.
Live Webcast: SharePoint 2010 & Microsoft Project
- Date: Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
- Time: 9:00 am Pacific; 10:00 am Mountain; 11:00 am Central; 12pm Eastern; and 4pm GMT
- Duration: 1 Hour
Webcast Description:
The release of the next generation of Microsoft’s SharePoint Server has been scheduled for May and many of the features that benefit project managers have been redesigned and improved. With SharePoint Server 2010, many of the necessities required for project management can be had out-of-the-box, without having to resort to an assortment of 3rd party add-ons.
With this web seminar we would like to demonstrate many of SharePoint's project management capabilities and improvements, including:
- A review of SharePoint's basic feature set, including: sites, lists, libraries, and web parts
- Explore SharePoint's newly overhauled user interface
- New project management features of SharePoint
- Working offline with project data
- Working with external project data
- Explore the social aspects of SharePoint
- Integrating Microsoft Project 2010 and SharePoint
- Extending SharePoint 2010's out-of-the-box feature set
And more…
SharePoint Server 2010 has built upon SharePoint's existing foundation and included many of the advanced features that project management requires. Having been redesigned with a new easy-to-use interface and the ability to work with data outside of the SharePoint platform, SharePoint Server 2010 will enable project managers to better utilize the platform to manage both simple and complex enterprise projects.
Webcast Presenters:
Mark Weinstein has over 25 years in the technology industry and is a systems analyst and consultant now based in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a consultant specializing in collaborative technologies, Mark’s attention is primarily focused upon Microsoft’s Exchange and SharePoint servers. Mark consults on several high-end projects for enterprise companies with thousands of users. His forte is building and teaching courseware that makes hands-on material practical and usable in a real-world environment, while keeping the general information on the subject easy to retain. In addition to being a published author and a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Mark holds several industry certifications and serves a diverse customer base ranging from healthcare to large public universities.
Éamonn McGuinness is the Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors at BrightWork. He is responsible for the strategic direction and continued growth of the company. He has over 20 years of executive experience at various technology organizations including The Armed Services, The United Nations and Digital Equipment Corporation. He received his MSc from Dublin City University, Ireland. Since 1987 Éamonn has been involved in various international process and project management standards and was a TickIT/ISO 9001 Lead Auditor and a Software CMM (Capability Maturity Model) Lead Assessor. At BrightWork he has worked with organizations like Microsoft, Boeing, Eastman Kodak and US Army assisting with the introduction of project management practices and project offices.