Webinars

Run Effective Project Meetings

Effective meetings are essential to successful project management, helping to energize and connect the team. Unfortunately, too many project meetings are a waste of time!

Put an end to bad meetings. Register for this webinar to learn more about:

· The ‘DAFT’ approach to better meetings

· Using a sample agenda for team meetings.

3 Steps to Track and Re-Plan Your Project with SharePoint

This recorded webinar outlines three practical steps to leverage SharePoint to track and re-plan your project.

Watch and learn how to:

1. Check and understand the project’s progress
2. Find and manage exceptions (e.g., issues, risks, change requests) with configurable reports
3. Re-plan the project.

Using Your Free SharePoint Project Management Templates

Watch this recorded webinar to get the most value from your free project management templates for SharePoint and Office 365.

Learn how to:

1. Install the templates in your site collection
2. Create and setup a project site
3. Get started tracking a project.

Making Project Management Easy with SharePoint and BrightWork

This recorded webinar showcases BrightWork features that make project and portfolio management easier for you.

Discover how BrightWork can help you:

• Get started managing projects with best-practice templates
• Control portfolios and track the health of all projects across the organization
• Bring all project information together in one collaborative environment
• Easily capture, reuse and deploy new processes.

Create Portfolio Management Dashboards on SharePoint

See how you can easily extend SharePoint to deliver:

1. Program / department level dashboards
2. Organization-wide dashboards including exception reporting
3. Key performance indicators and metrics
4. Automated cross-project reporting

Project Management 101 – One Page Plan for Project Basics

Watch this recorded webinar to discover these 4 basics of successful project management:

1. Asking the right questions
2. Checking the criteria for a successful project
3. Producing the project artefacts
4. Performing a project health check

Project Visibility and Portfolio Reporting in SharePoint

Use SharePoint to improve project visibility and portfolio control.

This recorded webinar demonstrates how to:

1. Roll-up data from the relevant project offices
2. Assess project progress by drilling down into real-time dashboards
3. Set up the right reports for project stakeholders.

Project Lifecycle Management Using SharePoint

Watch this recorded webinar and see how you can use SharePoint to:

1. Manage your pipeline of project requests
2. Organize in-flight projects
3. Efficiently control projects of all sizes from initiation to close

Using BrightWork for Project and Portfolio Management on SharePoint

In this recorded webinar, learn how BrightWork will help you get up and running with successful project management on SharePoint.

Here’s a closer look at what you’ll see:

• Portfolio dashboards and reports for increased visibility and control
• Templates that help you initiate, track and manage projects to success
• Work management dashboards for efficient team collaboration
• A flexible solution that meets your immediate needs.

Cultivate Collaboration in Distributed Project Teams Using SharePoint

Leveraging the collaborative powers of SharePoint will get your teams connected and working together – regardless of their location.

View this recorded webinar for actionable insights on:

1. Setting up a SharePoint project team site and connecting team members.
2. Using reports and dashboards to track individual and project team progress.
3. Leveraging discussion boards to solve problems and share solutions.

SharePoint + MS Project = The Perfect Combination for Project Collaboration

See how you can use SharePoint and Project together to:

• Start with managing a simple project schedule with tasks, issues and deliverables
• Evolve to manage a more complex work breakdown structure, with timelines and automated reports
• Manage across project and portfolios with metrics, dashboards and status reporting

Start - Evolve: Project Management Made Easy in 2016

In this recorded webinar you will see:

1. Standardized project management templates for quick & consistent project setup.
2. A collaborative toolset for intuitive project management.
3. Automated reporting to connect and inform stakeholders.

BrightWork New Release: Task Scheduling, Metric Tiles, Enhanced Scorecards

The spanking new release of BrightWork has arrived, headlined by the innovative in-browser task scheduling capability!

Watch this recorded webinar and see the main highlights, including:

1. Task scheduling right in your SharePoint site!
2. Metric tiles for increased visibility to your team
3. Enhanced scorecards configured for your projects and context
4. Easier project site creation process for the right start, every time.

Portfolio Management & Resource Tracking using SharePoint

In this recorded webinar you will see:

1. Top reasons why SharePoint is awesome for project management
2. Crucial components of project & portfolio management sites
3. How to manage and track resources in SharePoint with configurable reports

How to Manage Project Issues in SharePoint

During the life cycle of any project, unexpected issues are a certainty. What matters most is the way you deal with them, as these issues will affect the project outcome and success!

Interactive Time Management Workshop

Did you know that saving 10 minutes a day at work rewards you with an extra week a year? Making small changes to the way you go about your day and the important activities within it can help you save those precious few minutes!

How to Manage Projects Using Out-of-the-Box SharePoint 2013

Learn how to leverage these capabilities to enable a collaborative environment where project teams can:

1. Consistently initiate, plan, track and control all projects.
2. Get real-time status reports and make decisions faster.
3. Communicate efficiently and stay connected to their work – and each other!

SharePoint Reporting for Project and Portfolio Management

Learn how to connect and inform project stakeholders through your SharePoint site, using reporting capabilities to:

1. Provide project updates
2. Create project status reports
3. Deliver program visibility
4. Schedule automated reporting to stakeholders

CEO Webinar - The BrightWork New Release is Here

Some of the highlights from the latest BrightWork release include:

• Improved help and guidance – when and where you need it
• Navigation enhancements – to quickly move around your project office
• Enhanced Project Ribbon – for unparalleled project control
• Project management improvements – especially project status reporting
• Continued template evolution – providing a more seamless experience

5 Key Steps for Setting up a Successful PMO on SharePoint

Watch this recorded webinar to understand to understand a 5 step process that sets out how to successfully setup a PMO on SharePoint.

The 5 steps include:

1. Assessment and Strategy
2. PMO Initiation
3. PMO Establishment and Development
4. Staged Implementation
5. PMO Continuous Improvement

Using Earned Value Management in SharePoint Projects

Watch this recorded webinar and learn how to use a project site template to:

1. Define a Task Plan
2. Set Planned Value
3. Track Project Progress
4. Calculate Earned Value
5. Track Actual Cost
6. Calculate Performance Indices

Top 4 SharePoint Templates for Project Portfolio Management

What if you could track and control all of your project portfolios in SharePoint and get the cross-project visibility you need to make real time decisions?

3 Ways to Deliver Project Team Success using SharePoint

Watch this webinar to discover three easy ways to help team members actively participate and deliver project success with SharePoint.

SharePoint 101: How to Get Your Users to Love & Adopt SharePoint

Watch, as we revisit our most popular webinar of 2015 and see how using these 5 tips, are sure to increase SharePoint user adoption:

1. Start-Evolve!
2. Create meaningful navigation
3. Explain the power of document libraries
4. Make it personal for each user
5. Training for the role – not the platform

Portfolio Management & Resource Tracking Using SharePoint

Did you know SharePoint can also be used as a platform for you and your team to track resource work allocation?

Watch this recorded webinar to learn:

1. The crucial components of project & portfolio management sites
2. How to manage and track resources in SharePoint with configurable reports
3. How to track non-people resources.

3 Must-Have Skills of a Project Leader

Many people believe that managing and leading projects is an innate skill. Not true!

Watch this recorded webinar to learn more about three essential skills that a project manager must have and practice:

1. Time Management
2. Energy Management
3. Email Management.

3 Essential Practices For Project Managers Using SharePoint

This recorded webinar firmly recommends 3 practices you can easily deploy on SharePoint, building yours and your project team’s reputation for continual improvement.

1. Start your project with standardized templates
2. Manage with a collaborative toolset
3. Inform with automated reporting

Collaborative Project Management – Process & Leadership

Watch this recorded webinar and learn:

1. A 5 step collaborative project management process
2. Information on the leadership attributes and style needed to manage a project collaboratively
3. Advice on how you can implement both of the above

Use SharePoint to Select & Approve the Right Projects

Do you find that the project approval process in your organization does not always select the right projects? With SharePoint, you can review, compare, rank, assess and approve or reject new project requests with ease!

BrightWork Free Templates Chalk Talk

During this recorded session you will be guided through how to successfully use the free SharePoint project management templates in your organization.

Use SharePoint Reporting to Connect and Inform Project Stakeholders

Watch this recorded webinar and learn how to connect and inform project stakeholders through your SharePoint site to:

• Provide project updates
• Create project status reports
• Deliver program visibility
• Schedule automated reports to stakeholders

Successfully Prioritize Your Project Pipeline Using SharePoint

Watch this recorded webinar and learn how to:

1. Create and manage a pipeline of project requests
2. Travel through the project request life-cycle
3. Create projects sites based on approved requests
4. Custom configure the Project Request Manager to suit your local needs and practices

Project Risk Management Using SharePoint 2013

Get started fast and stay consistent with your risk management process using SharePoint 2013. Watch this recorded webinar and:

1. Learn the essential elements of risk management
2. Explore ways to fully engage with your project team for collaborative risk planning
3. See how to build out your risk management module in SharePoint, including workflow and reporting
4. Understand enhanced portfolio risk management using BrightWork with SharePoint

3 Ways to Contribute to Project Team Success Using SharePoint

Watch this webinar now and learn 3 ways team members can contribute more effectively to make the projects they work on more successful using SharePoint.

1. Understand with a Team-focused Project Site
2. Deliver with a Work Management System
3. Collaborate with the Microsoft SharePoint Platform

How to Successfully Deploy a Project Office on SharePoint 2013

In this recorded webinar, Scott will demonstrate how you can deploy SharePoint to:

1. Manage and control all (on-going) projects and work
2. Report across portfolios and resources
3. Collaborate and connect with team members
4. Increase your overall project success rate
5. Continuously improve your project management practic

Collaborative Project Management: A 3-Step Framework

With so many challenges facing projects, organizations are increasingly turning to collaborative project management to ensure success.

What is collaborative project management and how can you adopt this approach in your project team?

Watch this webinar and learn more about a three-step framework for collaborative project management:

1. Collaborate to Innovate
2. Lead to Succeed
3. Evolve to Grow.

[Training Webinar] Get Up and Running With Your Free SharePoint Project Management Templates!

To make sure you get started on the right foot, we recorded a live training session where we show you how to quickly and easily setup and use your SharePoint project management templates.

Watch this free templates setup and training call and learn how to:

1. Create a project site from one of the free templates
2. Setup and plan your project in the collaborative site
3. Track and manage the project using the project site

[Product Demo] BrightWork Project and Portfolio Management Software for SharePoint

Watch and see some of the key features of BrightWork project management software in action.

During this product walkthrough, you will see how BrightWork will help you:

• Get started managing projects with best-practice templates
• Manage across all those project with portfolio dashboards
• Collaborate with your team through project sites

… all on SharePoint!

Top Templates for Project Portfolio Management on SharePoint 2013

In this recorded webinar, you will be given a full run through of our top 4 SharePoint templates for project portfolio management, including the:

1. Projects Tracker
2. Projects and Work Tracker
3. Project Office / Project Office Portfolio
4. Project Request Manager

Create Stakeholder Dashboards on SharePoint

Stakeholders need accurate data to manage portfolio performance and make informed business decisions. Instead of wasting time creating reports in Excel, use portfolio dashboards in SharePoint for immediate visibility across all projects.

This recorded webinar demonstrates how to:
1. Create portfolio dashboards
2. Automate cross-project reporting.

Crawl, Walk, Run: Evolve Your Project Management in 2015

Watch this recorded webinar now and see how you can get started quickly with just the right amount of project management and gradually evolve it to where you need it to be, by using:

1. Standardized project management templates for quick & consistent project setup.
2. A collaborative toolset for intuitive project management.
3. Automated reporting to connect and inform stakeholders.

3 Ways to Standardize Projects Using SharePoint

Consistency is key to project success. Using defined templates and processes makes it easy for team members to contribute to the project, even if they lack formal project management training.

This webinar showcases three ways to use SharePoint to standardize your project management processes:

1. Creating standardized project templates.
2. Setting up a collaborative project site.
3. Automating reports.

Using SharePoint & Project for Even Better Collaborative Project Management!

See how you can use SharePoint and Project sync together to:

1. Start with managing a simple project schedule with tasks, issues and deliverables
2. Evolve to manage a more complex work breakdown structure, with timelines and automated reports
3. Manage across project and portfolios with metrics, dashboards and status reporting
4. Leverage Microsoft Excel for advanced reporting capabilities

A Five Step Approach to Managing Your Time

Time is one of the most valuable resources in project management and in life! In order to be a successful project manager or project team member, you must be able to manage your time well.

Since time is at a premium, during this webinar, BrightWork CEO Éamonn McGuinness will walk you through a five stage approach to making the absolute most of your time.

Lightning Fast Project Management on SharePoint 2013

During this webinar, you will see a demonstration on how to:

1. Add projects to the Projects and Work Tracker.
2. Add tasks and issues to a specific project.
3. Enable team members to get a project focused view

[Setup and Training Call] Using Your Free SharePoint Project Management Templates

Watch this free templates setup and training call and learn how to:

1. Install the templates in your site collection
2. Create and setup a project site
3. Get started tracking a project

Successfully Control Project Requests Using SharePoint 2013

Watch this recording now and and you will learn how to:

1. Create and manage new project requests
2. Travel through the project request life-cycle
3. Create projects sites based on approved requests
4. Custom configure the Project Request Manager to suit your local needs and practices

3 Steps to Optimize Project Reporting Using SharePoint

With so many report options and tools in SharePoint, how do you select the optimal report format for your project?

Watch this recorded webinar and see the main highlights, including::

1. Selecting the right types of project reports in SharePoint
2. How to create an effective project report quickly
3. Using report automation to keep your team and stakeholders up-to-date with project progress.

Achieve Project Management Success in 2017 with BrightWork!

Do you want to improve your project and portfolio management this year? In this webinar, you will see how BrightWork will help you get started with:

• Best-practice templates to help you get projects started the right way every time
• Reports and dashboards for high-level visibility across projects and portfolios

Task Tracking in SharePoint

Struggling to stay on top of project tasks and non-project work?

Watch this webinar for practical tips on:

1. Tracking project tasks using SharePoint lists
2. Using the Work Tracker Template to track non-project activities
3. Creating roll-up reports for a complete overview of current work.

Using SharePoint for Project Issue Management

During this recorded webinar, you will learn:

1. Best practices for Issue Management
2. Suggested elements of a SharePoint project issue management system
3. How to build out your issue management system in SharePoint with lists, notifications, and reporting
4. Enhanced portfolio issue management using BrightWork with SharePoint

Top Factors to Consider When Choosing Your PPM Solution

During this recorded webinar, we will focus on the four major areas you should consider before choosing your project and portfolio management solution:

1. Portfolio management
2. Project management
3. Work management
4. Organizational project management.