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Dear Andy,
Welcome to the sixth Project Learning newsletter of 2005.
As the Summer holiday season is still with us (although its
currently raining), we've consolidated the July and August
newsletters into one edition.
The
most exciting announcement this month is the revised and
upgraded Test Drive for Project Mentor. If you are a
Project Companion user, why not download an Evaluation Kit and
find out more about the critically-acclaimed content within its
parent system, Project Mentor?
With
this month's tips and tricks, we've gone 'back to basics' for an
introduction to resource assignments. If you wanted to
know about the fundamentals of assignments (or were afraid to
ask), why not review the tips and tricks for yourself?
Finally, why not take a look at our Knowledge Base of essential
downloads, service packs and
technical documentation?
Sincerely,
Andy Jessop
CEO and Founder
In
this newsletter:
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Upgraded Evaluation Kit |
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With Project Mentor Evaluation Kit downloads now well past the
1,000 mark, we've had plenty of positive (and sometimes
critical) comments about the content within the kit. One
key comment was that the old kit's Test Drive didn't provide a
rich-enough look and feel of the full Project Mentor system.
The result, we're delighted to say, is an upgraded Evaluation
Kit. Within the kit, you'll find:
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Additional (and enriched) factsheets and whitepapers.
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A completely-updated Test Drive with additional learning
content.
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Plus and enhanced user interface, modelled on our
recently-upgraded website.
The new Evaluation Kit is now available as a no-cost download. To
try it out for yourself, just go
to:
http://www.projectlearning.net/project_mentor_evaluate.htm
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Tips
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A fundamental Microsoft Project
Skill (especially if you are working in an Enterprise
environment) is to understand the nature of resource
assignments. On many training courses over the past few
years, we’ve had requests for a ‘back to basics’ introduction
about how assignments (and hence work and cost) are scheduled.
These tips and tricks
illustrate how assignments are created, work is aggregated and
costs are calculated. In addition, resource conflicts are
examined. All the examples shown were created using
Microsoft Excel for illustrative purposes, but would be
scheduled in exactly the same manner by Microsoft Project.
If you
click on the link below, get 'back to basics' about resources
and assignments:
http://www.projectlearning.net/newsletters_tipstricks.htm |
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Microsoft Project Knowledge Base |
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One of the most popular
upgrades to our website has been to incorporate links to popular
downloads, service packs and technical documentation all on one
easy-to-use page. Within our Knowledge Base we've collated
an essential collection of links, selected from many disparate
websites around the world.
If you haven't already visited
the Knowledge Base, just go to:
http://www.projectlearning.net/microsoft_project_knowledge_base.htm
If you
know of any links we should add to the Knowledge Base, just
contact me at
andyj@projectlearning.net |
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