| Project Learning Newsletter |
Volume 2, No.6 |
| Dear Andy,
Welcome to edition six of the Project Learning newsletter. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers and newsletter subscribers who have supported us over the last year and to wish you all a peaceful and prosperous 2005. Sincerely, Andy Jessop In this newsletter: | |
| Season's Greetings | |
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Thousands of companies
around the world will currently be sending millions of greetings cards to
celebrate the festive season. At Project Learning, we've decided to not
follow this practice. Instead we're donating the money we would have
normally spent
on cards and postage to the following worthwhile causes: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) http://www.unicef.org/ The Multiple Sclerosis Society http://www.mssociety.org.uk/ I hope you'll agree with us that the money we would have spent can be spent much more productively by helping those less fortunate than ourselves. | |
| Technical Tips and Tricks | |
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A large number of Microsoft Project users find that, whilst they can update a project with actual progress, determining schedule variances can often prove to be trickier. Although visual baseline comparisons can be made against the schedule, these tend to be focused on specific groups of tasks. Variances across an entire project’s schedule can sometimes be difficult to spot. If you click on the link below, these tips and tricks illustrate a number of options and techniques that can be used to help find the tasks across the project’s complete schedule that aren't progressing according to plan. | |
| Tutor-Led Training | |
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Whilst the majority of our newsletter
subscribers know that we produce critically-acclaimed computer-based training
materials, not everyone is aware that our roots are in the more traditional
tutor-led training approach. Indeed, up until 2 years ago, all our training
was delivered by real people - us. If you are based in the UK or Europe and are thinking about attending a training course in best-practice Project Management or using Microsoft Project more effectively, why not follow these links to find out more about what we have to offer: http://www.projectlearning.net/personal_courses.htm http://www.projectlearning.net/company_courses.htm If you are based outside of the UK and are looking for training, let us know and we'll try and put you in touch with our training partners around the world. | |
| Project Management Survey | |
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For those of you who
haven't already taken part in our project management survey, why not give us
your opinions (and 5 minutes of your time). Don't forget that all completed
surveys will be entered into a draw to win a first prize of a Project Mentor
Single User system (worth £195 / $300) or 1 of 5 second prizes of £20 / $20
Amazon vouchers. Do ensure that you enter your email addresses at the end of
the survey.
The survey will be active until January 14th 2005. Results of the survey will be posted onto our web site later that month. Everyone who completes the survey will be given access to the surveys dataset as an Excel file (not including personal details, as we never provide these to third parties!). To take part in the survey, just click on the link below: | |
| November prize draw winners | |
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The five winners of
the November draw of new newsletter subscribers are:
Gerald Mc Tiernan -
Republic of Ireland Each of them will receive a $10 Amazon voucher with our compliments. | |
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