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Dear Andy,
Welcome to the eighth Project Learning newsletter of 2005.
Project Learning Limited is coming to the end of its eleventh
successful year, full of ideas and innovations for year twelve.
In the next newsletter, we'll be letting you know what we have
in store, and we'll also be asking you for your invaluable
feedback.
A
great way for us to finish off year eleven is to receive
critical acclaim for our Project Mentor system from two distinct
and important sources. The first of these is a
highly-complimentary review in the influential journal Project
Manager Today. Fiona Powell, a respected Microsoft Project
trainer and consultant awards "Five big gold stars" to Project
Mentor. You can read the review for yourself by following
the links below. The second area of acclaim is illustrated
in a case study explaining how United Airlines Cargo has gained
measurable benefits from its use of Project Mentor as part of a
project management excellence
program.
With
this month's tips and tricks, we're again taking time to explore
tracking and replanning within Microsoft Project. Under
the spotlight this time are ways to see if your project is on
schedule or not. Don't forget to review the two AVI movies
on the website that explain these techniques in more detail.
Sincerely,
Andy Jessop
CEO and Founder
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this newsletter:
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Five big gold
stars
for Project Mentor |
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If you
subscribe to Project Manager Today magazine, you'll find that
the November 2005 edition carries an in-depth review of our
Project Mentor CBT tool. Reviewed by an experienced
project manager and Microsoft Project trainer, Fiona Powell had
this key comment to make:
"It’s
the best computer-based learning package I’ve ever used. Anyone
who wants to learn to use Microsoft Project for managing
projects in the real world should have a compulsory licence to
use it."
To
find out more what Fiona had to say, you can read the review for
yourself by going to our website. Just go to:
http://www.projectlearning.net/project_mentor_reviews.htm -
the general reviews page.
http://www.projectlearning.net/pdf/Project_Manager_Today_Nov05.pdf
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Tips
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Planning a project is one
thing; managing a project effectively is often something
completely different, and with its own set of challenges. Of the Microsoft Project users that
track actual progress against project tasks, disappointingly few
understand how to compare a planned schedule with what actually
happened. These users are probably unaware of the wealth of
information available to them, and the value they can get from
correctly interpreting that information.
If you click on the link below,
these tips and tricks illustrate a number of ways that
schedule comparisons can be made, together with how the
information available can be interpreted.
http://www.projectlearning.net/newsletters_tipstricks.htm |
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Project Mentor Case Study |
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With just over 40 Project
Mentor users, United Airlines Cargo have Project Mentor as in
integral part of a project management excellence program. Their
key requirements of Project Mentor were:
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To train self-taught
project managers how to use Microsoft Project more
effectively; improving their project management discipline
in the process.
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To assess and test
Microsoft Project competency to allow progression towards
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
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To have a training solution
that was cost effective, easy to deploy and didn't require
many hours of expensive classroom tuition.
To
find out more about their requirement, and how it was fulfilled,
take a look at:
http://www.projectlearning.net/project_mentor_feedback.htm#United_Airlines
http://www.projectlearning.net/pdf/Case_Study_United_Cargo.pdf
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compliments of Project Learning Limited. |
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