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I am really excited to announce I will be speaking at Tech Ed Australia, presenting an interactive session entitled ‘Leveraging SharePoint 2010 for Project Management’ in the AvePoint Interactive Theatre. The session outline may sound familiar, but I have made some changes and pimped out a few of the demo’s..

Today it is more important than ever to ensure every project your organizations undertakes is delivered effectively. To accomplish this, it is essential that there is clear communication and effective tools to facilitate your project management process. Come and see how SharePoint 2010 can improve the management of your next project, including the new Project 2010 client integration, Visio Services and Team Site improvements.

As if the content wasn’t enough, I also have a one year Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate + MSDN subscription to give away during the session, courtesy of MSDN, valued at over $20,000 AUD. So please come along and support your favourite project management tools, SharePoint 2010, Project Server 2010 and Project 2010.

Update: Thanks for all of you that came along to the session at TechEd, whilst the presso was pretty short (only 30 minutes allocated) and the kind guys of the .Net Rocks podcast decided to sing using a VERY loud amplifier for the entire session, the feedback was great. The slide deck for those of you that asked, is available here.

This morning, I presented with William Cornwill a session at the Australian SharePoint Conference entitled ‘SharePoint 2010 and Managing Projects – A Match made in heaven’. The idea behind the session was to give people an idea of how SharePoint 2010 can be leveraged to assist in managing your next project using some of the out of box features.

The slide deck is available here for your viewing pleasure

As a companion to the presentation, I will be publishing a series of posts in the coming weeks outlining some of the great new features of SharePoint 2010 that could be leveraged in your next project including:

• Document Sets;
• Workflow;
• Managed Metadata;
• Wiki Improvements;
• Visio Services and;
• Graph web part

and possibly a few other features if time allows Stay tuned.

Just a reminder for those Australian readers, tickets are still available for the upcoming Australian SharePoint Conference, which is less than six weeks away.

The conference has something for everyone, covering both technical and business topics, with:

• 20 sessions of end user/power user/business content including some great case studies including Telstra, Volvo and a number of Industry verticals such as finance,  insurance, legal and engineering
• 20 sessions of pure technical content for IT Pro, Administrators, Developers and Analysts
• Content is relevant to those using WSS, MOSS 2007, and new 2010 products.

As well as a keynote from Arpan Shah, the cream of the Australian SharePoint industry will be on hand to present and assist.

Of course the highlight of the conference will be the session presented by myself and William Cornwill from Microsoft entitled:

Managing Projects in SharePoint 2010, a match made in heaven – 200 Level
Today it is more important than ever to ensure every project your organisations undertakes is delivered effectively. To accomplish this, it is essential that there is clear communication across the project team and effective tools to facilitate your project management process.
Come and see how SharePoint 2010 can improve the management of your next project, including the new Project 2010 client integration, Access Services, Reporting with Visio & Excel Services and team site improvements.

We are hard at work on some excellent content and demonstrations, so make sure your there to see it. To register head on over to http://www.sharepointconference.com.au. We hope to see you there.

Just a reminder, it’s not too late to register..

The Melbourne chapter of MPUG will be holding it’s next bi-monthly session on the 27th April 2010 at the Microsoft offices in Freshwater Place. This month there will be two presentations:

Martin Vaughan, a Director and Senior PMO Consultant with Core Consulting Group will present the first half of this session covering Project, Program and Portfolio resource management. Starting with the basics of the schedule model, this presentation will consider potential and practical tips relating to modelling resource needs on individual projects through to full EPM environments. Implications relating to scheduling standards, cost reporting, time sheeting and overall utilisation will be considered.

Alex Burton, a senior EPM consultant with OBS, will then provide a product tour highlighting Project 2010’s approach to Resource Planning and Management and its influences on project portfolio selection.

Location:             Microsoft Melbourne, Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place, Southbank VIC 3006.

Date:                     Tuesday 27th April 2010.

Time:                    5pm registration for 5:30pm session start. 7pm finish.

Registration:      Click here to register and get more information

Just a reminder, it’s not too late to register..

Are you ready for Microsoft Project 2010?

Microsoft EPM Specialists Darren Deason and Alex Burton will take you on a journey around the new enhanced features of the Microsoft Project 2010 product line-up.

Some of the topics discussed will be as follows:

· Project Timeline and Resource Planner

· Project to WSS Synchronisation

· Integrated Portfolio Management

· Enterprise Project Templates

· User Delegation

· Time Reporting Enhancements

· Web-based Project Editing

· And many more exciting new features …

Location:             Microsoft Melbourne, Level 5, 4 Freshwater Place, Southbank VIC 3006.

Date:                     Thursday 4^th February 2010.

Time:                    5pm registration for 5:30pm session start. 7pm finish.

Registration:      Click here to register and get more information

Hope to see you there, it will be a great night.