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Dear Andy,
Welcome to the third Project Learning newsletter of 2007.
If you've had a chance to visit our website recently, you'll see
that it has just had a major facelift, with lots of additional content
and improved navigation. We've already received many
positive comments from enquirers and customers alike, who find
our website not just a useful source of relevant information,
but also a pleasure to use. You may also have noticed that
we now have two websites:
www.projectlearning.net - for project managers all across
the world.
www.projectlearning.co.nz - for project managers
primarily based in
Australia and New Zealand.
By
having two distinct web presences, we're aiming to provide both
localised and worldwide project-related solutions that are
optimised by location. To find out why we now have an
Australasian presence, just read on below.
Also in this newsletter you'll find that Tips and tricks have
returned after a short break. We also have a new version
of Project Companion for download, this having been updated to
support Microsoft Project 2007. Finally, there is a link
to download a WBS modelling tool that is now available from
Microsoft.
I
hope that you find this newsletter to be a useful
project-related resource. If you have any suggestions for
future newsletter content, please do get in touch with me.
Sincerely,
Andy Jessop
CEO and Founder
andyj@projectlearning.net
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Project Learning in New Zealand |
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As
some of you may have spotted from our previous newsletter, we
now have a different postal address. No longer are we
based in the United Kingdom, we've moved 12,000 miles to a
completely different hemisphere!
As of
April 2007, Project Learning's headquarters is now based in New
Zealand. Our offices are in Lower Hutt, which is just
outside the capital city Wellington. Our complete range
of products and services are now available for both the New
Zealand and Australian markets - so if you are looking for
project management or Microsoft Project training, EPM training
and consultancy, or you simply want advice on how to manage your
projects better, just give us a call on +64 4 562 7661.
If you
are a Project Mentor customer (or you are contemplating becoming
one), rest assured that we are committed to ongoing product development and
support. In fact, we've just released our Project
Companion system for Microsoft Project 2007 to coincide with the
publication of this
newsletter. Please see below for more details.
If
you're not based in Australasia, don't worry. We're still
going to provide the same level of worldwide support that we
did from the UK, with 24/7 call messaging from our national-rate
USA and UK phone numbers and email replies as quickly as
international time zones will allow. Over the forthcoming
months, we're also looking to announce a number of strategic
alliances with partner companies around the globe to provide
project-related solutions wherever in the world you may be. |
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Tips and Tricks |
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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 and
understood.
http://www.projectlearning.net/newsletters_tipstricks.htm
These
tips and tricks were first published in newsletter 8, volume 3;
back in 2005. Between then and now, we've had several
thousand new newsletter subscribers - so we thought it wise to
republish these particular tips and tricks; especially as they
now contain content relative to Microsoft Project 2007. |
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Project
Companion for Microsoft Project 2007 |
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In our last newsletter we announced that our Project Mentor
distance learning system now supports Microsoft Office Project
2007. We're delighted to announce that we've just upgraded our
Project Companion system to support Microsoft Office Project
2007 as well. If you are already a Project Companion user
and you want to upgrade,
or you'd like to know more about the latest version, just follow
this link:
http://www.projectlearning.net/project_companion.htm |
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WBS Modeler for Microsoft Project 2007 |
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If
you use Microsoft Visio 2007, you'll probably already be aware
that you can produce Visual Reports from Microsoft Project 2007
(if you are a Project Mentor v 2.1 user, just use reference 4.3
to find out how). You may not be aware that you can also
interactively manipulate your project's work breakdown structure
(aka outline) and create or change projects within Visio by using a Visio add-in entitled WBS Modeler. The WBS
Modeler is a partner-provided tool that can be downloaded from
the Microsoft web site. Just go to the following page on
our website:
http://www.projectlearning.net/microsoft_project_knowledge_base_biz.htm
And
you'll find a link to download the WBS Modeler from Microsoft.
The WBS Modeler comes complete with documentation and it also
looks to be quite simple to use. |
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compliments of Project Learning International Limited. |
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