Managing Projects with SharePoint (Recorded Webcasts)
At BrightWork we believe that SharePoint is the best platform bar none on which to build project management applications. The webcasts described below expand on this belief. Registering gives you access to all the webcast recordings.
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Webcast: Manage Projects on SharePoint – Right Out-of-the-Box!
Date: Wednesday, 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: Wednesday December 14th
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
Date: Wednesday, December 7th
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.
Leveraging SharePoint for Collaborative Project Management
Date: Wednesday, November 16th
Microsoft SharePoint is a fantastic tool to house and share information, but many organizations are not using the platform to its full potential. With templates and reporting, SharePoint can be transformed into a comprehensive work and project management solution. SharePoint templates are built to enable team members to easily find and manage their own work, while powerful reporting allows project managers to manage single projects or across multiple projects. Reporting on SharePoint also provides senior management with a “birds-eye-view” of all projects going on. With SharePoint templates and reporting, your organization can use SharePoint to enable collaboration and visibility at all levels of the project team.
Join us on Wednesday November 16th for a webinar in which Éamonn McGuinness will fully explain and demonstrate a practical approach to leverage SharePoint for Collaborative Project Management. All attendees will receive a copy of the slide deck and webcast recording.
Customer Spotlight: SharePoint for Project Management - Maranatha Baptist Bible College
Date Held: Wednesday, November 9th
Maranatha Baptist Bible College is a comprehensive, liberal arts college founded in 1968 in rural Wisconsin with approximately 1,000 students. MBBC is an AQIP (Academic Quality Improvement Program) Institution which requires extensive continuous quality improvement activity and processes. In over 20+ years with AQIP, MBBC has built a strong culture of “Quality” improvement, but their ability to track activity across the campus was limited-to-nonexistent.
In this webinar, Matt Davis, Executive Vice President of MBBC will explain and demonstrate how the college uses BrightWork on SharePoint to track and manage their strategic plan. In this webinar, you will see:
- BrightWork fit into their existing SharePoint infrastructure
- Highly customized project templates
- A hierarchy of project offices reflecting organizational structure
- An innovative approach for new project requests/initiation.
SharePoint for Project Management: Top 5 Features you get right out-of-the-box
Date Held: Thursday, October 13th
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 Management on SharePoint – In 4 Easy Steps
Date: Thursday, September 29th
Those involved in project management know that all projects differ in size, type and complexity, therefore demanding varying degrees of process and collaboration. For many, it can be a daunting task trying to transform project management in an organization.
We at BrightWork have a simple solution for transforming work and project management on SharePoint which will help you develop a successful and sustainable model for project management within your organization. Join Éamonn McGuinness of BrightWork where he will present a simple four-step approach for transforming project management using SharePoint. Our approach is both practical and easy to implement, so please join us! All attendees at this webinar will receive a copy of the slide deck and webinar recording.
Manage Projects with SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010
Date: Wednesday, September 28th
The latest releases of SharePoint 2010 and Project 2010 were launched over 12 months ago with many of the features required for managing work and projects. Microsoft Project Professional 2010 has been widely acclaimed as the best ever release of Microsoft Project.SharePoint is considered by many to be the de facto industry standard platform for collaboration.
In this webcast, Mike Kremer, EPM Specialist at Microsoft and Eamonn McGuinness of BrightWork, will explain and demo the new out of the box capabilities that make Microsoft Project and SharePoint such an awesome combination for project management. Eamonn will also show you how SharePoint 2010 can be extended to manage work, projects and pottfolios of projects.
Project and Portfolio Management Using SharePoint
5 Case Studies that provide a glimpse into real life experiences – challenges and all
Date: Tuesday, September 20th
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.
Customer Spotlight: Gig Werks use BrightWork as Cornerstone of its Project Management Methodology
Date: September 15th
As a systems integrator, Gig Werks’ core business model revolves around rapid delivery of high-quality, custom-tailored technology solutions for the enterprise. To manage the array of simultaneous projects, Gig Werks leverages BrightWork project templates and reports to record, track, and review project schedules.
At this webinar, Christian Hoslin will show how Gig Werks:
- consolidate each schedule into a single view providing full visibility into all current and projected tasks across the company’s project portfolio
- expedite reviews of active projects by perusing a roll-up view of key performance drivers
- customized predefined Project Standard and Project Office templates out-of-the-box to provide a distinct, authoritative interface for client and project sites
- increased operational efficiency by providing key employees with instant access to all the activity occurring in the shop
About Gig Werks
Gig Werks, winner of Microsoft’s 2010 2011 technology partner of the year, is a Microsoft Gold and Field Managed Partner with certified expertise in SharePoint , Business Intelligence, custom application development and advanced infrastructure. Our skills in these areas deliver solutions that ensure maximum value and ease of use for end users while achieving the lowest total cost of ownership all while delivering on your company's vision to optimize your business process infrastructure.
Using SharePoint for Project Management
Many organizations use SharePoint to share information, 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, single projects or across many projects.
Some project management solutions are quite expensive and complex, in just 45-minutes we’ll show you how to make SharePoint a practical project management solution for any organization.
Project Governance and Management Reporting using SharePoint
In this webinar, K2 and BrightWork will present an economical solution built on Microsoft SharePoint that provides a quick, cost effective solution to manage and track the full project life cycle from idea through timely portfolio reporting. The webinar demonstrates how you can use the two solutions together (BrightWork for project and portfolio management and K2 for project management lifecycle processes) to leverage SharePoint as a collaborative platform.
Reporting on Work and Projects with SharePoint
SharePoint is an excellent container, it can store vast amounts of information on many different work itemsand projects. However, it is difficult to get the information back from the same lists, librariesand siteswith the native SharePoint capabilities in a form suitable for Project and Portfolio Management.
We will explain a model and show extensions to SharePoint for reporting across work, projects and portfolios, from SharePoint lists, libraries, sites and site collections.
The reporting extension will be presented in three layers as follows:
- Presentation layer - what the end user gets
- Configuration layer - what the average user can easily configure to create new report
- Editing layer - the capabilities for advanced reporting and report management
5 Templates to Maximize SharePoint for Project Management
Date: July 13th, 2011
Many organizations have adopted SharePoint to maximize their Project Management capabilities. SharePoint can be enhanced by customizing and extending templates that give the necessary flexible structure and reporting required for work, project and cross-project management. Using SharePointfor Project Management can help organizations’ easily apply common and practical project management concepts that can aid efficient communication and collaboration among team members.
Join usfor a webinar in which Éamonn McGuinness of BrightWork walk through 5 Templates to Maximize your SharePoint investment for Project Management. He will fully explain and demonstrate this approach.
Managing Projects with SharePoint – Ensuring User Adoptions
Date: June 23rd, 2011
Many project managers are struggling to keep their work and projects on track and sometimes fall behind on project planning, scheduling, time tracking and reporting. Microsoft SharePoint is an excellent platform which allows organizations of all sizes to collaborate more efficiently on work and projects of all types. Different projects require different amounts of management and structure, making SharePoint templates the perfect solution for collaborative project management. SharePoint templates are a fast yet practical starting point and can be customized to meet your needs.
Éamonn McGuinness of BrightWork will show you how easy it is to transform your project management needs with SharePoint. Attendees will receive the webcast recording and slide deck after the webcast.
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.
A Template Driven Model for Work and Project Management on SharePoint
Date: May 19th, 2011
SharePoint is a fantastic tool for collaboration and information sharing, but it can also be enhanced and extended for work and project management using templates. Projects can vary in size and complexity, meaning there is no “one size fits all” approach to project management, even within the same organization. Different projects require different amounts of management and structure, making SharePoint templates the perfect solution for collaborative project management. SharePoint templates are a fast yet practical starting point and can be customized to meet your needs. The templates can be used to manage work, single projects, or across many projects.\
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.
SharePoint Templates to Manage Work and Projects
Date: April 7, 2011
SharePoint is the market leading platform for collaboration and information sharing, but it can also be extended and enhanced with templates for work and project management. SharePoint templates can be built to manage work, individual projects or to manage across many projects. Templates provide the flexibility to mimic the varying structure required on different types of projects. Templates are also a pragmatic way to easily promote reuse and the spread of common practice.
Using SharePoint 2010 to Collaboratively Manage Projects
Date Held: March 23, 2011
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 has a template for managing a project and also has a list that synchronizes with Microsoft Project, so it is clear the SharePoint team is encouraging us to use SharePoint to manage work and projects. The question is how?
Join Éamonn McGuiness of BrightWork as he:
- Demos why SharePoint 2010 out of the box is such a suitable platform for collaborative project management
- Demos how the out of the box Microsoft Project to Microsoft SharePoint two-way sync works
- Explains and demos a sample process for managing projects in a collaborative style with SharePoint
- Explains where it is best to use Microsoft Project Desktop with Microsoft SharePoint versus deploying Microsoft Project Server with SharePoint
- Shows exactly where the limitations are with the out of the box functionality, so attendees know where they have to customize or extend
Managing Projects Using SharePoint is as Simple as 1-2-3
Date Held: March 1st, 2011
The Dilemma!
The customers we meet are at pains to tell us that they do not have the time or the budget to train people in formal project management – but yet they need project management discipline. They want an approach so simple that it is obvious.
A Simple Solution
Over the years we have been helping customers develop such a simple approach. More recently we have been working on an approach that can be described and always decomposed into three steps. Why three steps every time? Why not? Three is an easy number to work with. It is a bit quirky and fun. It is easier to remember and manage. It forces us all to be concise rather than long-winded.
This Webcast:
Will present a simple 1-2-3 approach that can be used for project management and show how this simple 1-2-3 approach can be implemented on the SharePoint platform
Collaborative Project Management – a How-to Guide
Date Held: 24th February
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.
Maximize Project Management with SharePoint Templates
Date Held: 27th January 2011
One size does not fit all when it comes to project management. Within any organization, work and projects require differing amounts of structure, process and management depending on the particular needs of individual projects. This webcast on “Maximising Project Management with SharePoint templates” will explain and fully demonstrate how SharePoint can be customized and extended with templates that give the necessary flexible structure and reporting required for work, project and cross-project management.
SharePoint for Project Management-The Top 12 Features you get right Out-of-the-Box
Date Held: 14th December 2010
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 12 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.
Integrate Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 Today!
Date Held: 19th November 2010
Presented by: Tod Monchecourt of Microsoft and Eamonn McGuinness, CEO at BrightWork
Share project plans, create task lists for Team Members and receive ‘real time’ project status… Without Project Server!
Join us for this informative webcast which will walk you through the new ‘synch’ feature with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010.
This webcast will also give you some ideas on how you can extend SharePoint for project management. There will be a live demonstration during this webcast.
Gartner Research Case Study on Easing Project Creation and Control with Collaborative PPM Tools
Date Held: 11th November 2010
Matt Light from the Gartner Research group wrote an interesting case study on implementing a collaborative solution in a leading organization. For IT executives facing delays at points throughout the project life cycle, this Case Study offers important lessons in streamlining project management.
This informative case study looked at:
- Eliminating the wait time in project reporting
- Streamlining project management
- Making the best use of tools already in place like Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Project
Project Management on SharePoint in 4 Easy Steps
Date Held: 27th October 2010
Those involved in project management know that all projects differ in size, type and complexity, therefore demanding varying degrees of process and collaboration. For many, it can be a daunting task trying to transform project management in an organization.
We at BrightWork have a simple solution for transforming work and project management on SharePoint which will help you develop a successful and sustainable model for project management within your organization. Join Éamonn McGuinness of BrightWork where he will present a simple four-step approach for transforming project management using SharePoint. Our approach is both practical and easy to implement, so please join us and learn how you can transform project management in your organization.
Manage Projects with SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010
Date Held: 21st October 2010
The latest releases of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Project 2010 have been launched with many of the features required for managing work and projects. Microsoft Project Professional 2010 is the Best Release Ever. In this webcast, Doc Dochtermann will introduce the new capabilities that make Microsoft Project 2010 the easiest product ever for project planning and re-planning, including but not limited to the new user interface, the new timeline view, the ability to manually schedule and the capability to 2-way sync from Microsoft Project to SharePoint.
Join Doc Dochtermann, EPM Specialist at Microsoft and Éamonn McGuinness of BrightWork for this informative and valuable webcast which will demonstrate how you can manage work and projects with SharePoint 2010 and Project 2010.
Using SharePoint to Manage Projects – Ensuring User Adoption - The Six Factors Critical for Success
Date Held: October 13th 2010
Microsoft SharePoint is an excellent platform which allows organizations of all sizes to collaborate more efficiently on projects of all types. When SharePoint is setup the correct way it can be used to manage projects and programs in a really successful manner. We at BrightWork have a solution for managing work and projects on SharePoint and as such have seen many instances of SharePoint used really well and also deployed very poorly for Project Management. Since Project Management is a business process and a discipline, having sustained and successful project management in place is very challenging for most organizations. BrightWork have looked over hundreds of deployments to find the factors most critical for success. Please do learn from our experiences. It will cost you nothing and will save you lots.
Customer Case Study Webcast: Using SharePoint for Practical Project Management
Date Held: August 5th 2010
Presenter: James Ewing, President, Enterprise Leadership Consultants
For the last few years, the City of McKinney’s IT department worked diligently on concurrent IT projects. However, while the IT department was working hard at meeting the needs of their departments (their customers), they were falling prey to a common misperception throughout so many organizations, “IT isn’t doing what I need for my department.” They decided to commission James Ewing (from Enterprise Leadership Consulting) to examine their project management processes. James recommended implementing a SharePoint for Project Management Solution and customizing it to meet their specific needs.
SharePoint 2010 and Project Desktop 2010 and Project Server 2010
Date Held: 19th & 20th May 2010
The next generation of Microsoft’s SharePoint Server, Project Desktop and Project Server are to be launched tomorrow, May 12th and many of the features required for managing work and projects of varying degrees of complexity, structure and process can now be found out-of-the-box – unlike previous generations. With so much on offer, it begs the question: How do project teams decide what Microsoft product or mix of products to use and when?
This webcast will answer this question and present the scenarios and criteria that make it easy for project teams to make the right choice at the right time.
Project Management for Mere Mortals – using SharePoint!
Date Held: 9th March 2010
Most of us will agree that a software application is essential to support the successful implementation of project management. Anyone involved in the execution of real world projects knows that they differ in size, type, and complexity – ranging from the loosely structured to semi-structured to extremely structured projects. These varying projects require varying degrees of process and collaboration.
This webcast is a must for those of us – the mere mortals – that are involved with the execution of work and projects – large, medium or small - regardless of industry or product.
Build a Project Office on SharePoint in 30 Minutes!
Date Held: January 14th & 27th, 2010
Learn how you can build your first project office on SharePoint using pmPoint in just 30 minutes! See how you will be able to quickly create and assign work items, generate reports and complete the typical tasks associated with managing a project office on the SharePoint platform.
“The excitement and energy from our users has confirmed that we made the best choice in purchasing BrightWork pmPoint.” University of Chicago
Microsoft Project Desktop 2010 and Microsoft Project Server 2010 – What’s New!
Date Held: September 22nd, 2009
The Microsoft Project teams have been busy developing new and very exciting versions of their flagship products, Project Desktop 2010 and Project Server 2010. Some of the pre-announced key investment areas include: (i) Enhance user experience and appeal; (ii) Improve execution with effective collaboration; (iii) Unify project and portfolio management; (iv) Simplify deployment and extend interoperability.
But what does all that mean in practice?! What are the coolest new capabilities? What are the most exciting developments? What are the biggest changes? What does this all mean for your work and project management plans? What will the new 2010 platform enable you to do with ease that you can not do today?
