PROJECT KNOWLEDGE - the Project Learning newsletter

PROJECT KNOWLEDGE

the project learning newsletter

In this issue:

Earned Value Explained (EVA) - The 5 Minute Movie
Last Call for the Microsoft Project Usage Survey
Mission to Haiti
December & January Prize draw winners

Dear Project Manager,

Volume 8, number 1

Welcome to the first Project Learning newsletter for 2010. We hope that the new decade has started well for you. We’ve got some great ideas for 2010, so do watch this space.

Sincerely

Andy Jessop
CEO and Founder
andyj@projectlearning.net

Earned Value Explained (EVA) - The 5 Minute Movie
Our most downloaded hints and tips PDF last year was on EVA. This month we’ve uploaded our ‘Introduction to Earned Value Analysis in a Microsoft Project’ screencast for you to watch. Taken from Project Mentor, the movie: Introduces you to EVA Explains what the fields mean in real terms Shows you how you can use them in a practical way to determine the health of your project The movie contains an audio commentary, so don’t forget to turn your speakers on Watch the Screencast Alternatively Download an evaluation copy of Project Mentor Compare the cost of Project Mentor to classroom training
Last Call for the Microsoft Project Usage Survey
We’ve had nearly 500 responses to this survey and but we’d really appreciate if you could give us your thoughts and opinions on how you use Microsoft Project The survey is only 15 questions long and should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. As well as providing an analysis of the survey’s findings, we will be opening up the anonymized data set to the Microsoft Project community so you can carry out your own analysis if you wish. Take The Survey
Mission to Haiti
A short while ago I became aware of a practical and selfless act by one of our customers from Chicago IL. Stephen Michaelson, a Project Mentor user since 2003, is looking to travel to Haiti and donate his time and effort to help out with disaster relief and recovery on behalf of the victims and survivors of the devastating earthquake. This project of Stephen’s deserves support, so I wanted to publicise his initiative. To find out more, just go to http://www.firstgiving.com/stephenmichaelson If you are able to help Stephen meet his project’s objectives, then thank you.
December and January Prize draw winners
The winners of the December 2009 and January 2010 draw of new newsletter subscribers are:
December 2009	January 2010
Winai Ruangroj, Thailand William Chapin, U.S.A. Hitesh Kardani, India Victor Nwasor, Nigeria Singaravel Veerabadran, India	Alicia Hollow, UK Stefaan Lampaert, Belgium Farid Samir, Egypt John Murzin, U.S.A. Miguel Baez Presser, Paraguay
Each of them will receive a $10 Amazon voucher with the compliments of Project Learning.

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