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Whether you're a freelance
project manager, responsible for projects as part of a
larger team, or an integral part of a large program; if
you use Microsoft Project, then Project Mentor can
provide you with achievable and tangible benefits.
See below how Project Mentor is providing these benefits
to individuals and organisations around the world. |
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User Profile - United
Airlines |
25-50 Project Mentor Users |
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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 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.
They evaluated Project Mentor in late 2003 and
implemented it in early 2004. To date, their
average pre-learning and post-learning assessments
indicate a relative Microsoft Project knowledge increase
of more than 75%. |
"At United Airlines Cargo, Project Mentor is more than a
computer-based tutorial, it is a business tool and ready
reference for jump-starting our busy headquarters staff
to develop Microsoft Project and project management
skills as a core competency. Written by project
managers for project managers, Mentor unmasks the power
of Microsoft Project as a superior planning tool, with
real-world lab exercises that allow our managers to
learn basic and advanced techniques while adhering to
generally-accepted project lifecycle discipline.
I highly recommend Project Mentor and
projectlearning.net for self-paced or classroom training
in project scheduling that is knowledge-based,
professionally relevant, easily delivered, and very
affordable."
Stephen Michaelson – Program Manager United Airlines |
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User Profile - Pace
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A Corporate Program Office |
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As a company at the cutting edge of the consumer
electronics industry, Pace have developed and deployed a
sophisticated Enterprise Project Management (EPM)
solution that is in use every day by their project
management community. Ensuring consistent
best-practice EPM, Pace have a programme office acting
as a centre of project management excellence.
Project Mentor is the learning tool of choice for the
programme office to help them provide an essential
service to their project management community.
Project Mentor provides Pace with the following:
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As a ready reference, providing immediate answers to
a wide range of Microsoft Project questions.
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To help promote and reinforce EPM processes and
disciplines.
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Fulfilling the need to use Microsoft Project to its
greatest potential.
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"I find Project Mentor to be an invaluable tool in
helping me get the best out of Microsoft Project.
As my role helps to ensure that our EPM community uses
Microsoft Project to its utmost, I have to be able to
support and assist our team with any questions or issues
that they may have. I find the reference aspect of
Project Mentor especially useful as all I have to do is
lookup a particular keyword and comprehensive
information is at my disposal; from simple definitions
to detailed step-by-step practical explanations.
Project Mentor helps me fulfil my role as it always
provides me with the answers that I need, just when I
need them."
Richard Capenerhurst – Senior Programme Support, Pace
Corporate Program Office |
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User Profile -
Graeme Dick |
A freelance Project Management specialist |
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Graeme Dick is a freelance project manager, specialising
in the Government sector. Based in Wellington, New
Zealand, Graeme purchased Project Mentor directly from
the Project Learning website. |
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“As my role involves
providing best practice project management to my
customers, I always have to be ahead of the game. For
several years I had searched for training that filled in
the missing links for me. Unfortunately all the
classroom or PC-based options I tried failed to meet my
expectations. A web search brought Project Mentor
to my attention. Its promises appeared to fulfil
my needs, so I purchased it online. I have to say
that I’m impressed and think its one of the most
beneficial purchases I’ve made for my project management
work. Following the system’s recommendations, I
created my own Personal Learning Plan, advising me of
what I already knew. I then matched this to what I
needed to learn and I was away. Having used
Microsoft Project quite extensively before, I was able
to focus my time on learning tools and techniques that
were important to me – especially the more complex and
detailed aspects of Microsoft Project. It took me
about 15 days to work through Project Mentor, mostly in
my spare time. I now use Project Mentor primarily
for reference, with answers to my questions always to
hand.
What impressed me the most about Project Mentor is that
it taught me the best way to do something, filling in
the gaps in my knowledge and also correcting any bad
habits that I had developed over the years. As a
consequence, my confidence level in using Microsoft
Project has gone up significantly. Learning how to
customise Microsoft Project, especially in relation to
reporting, has been particularly useful.” |
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Graeme is one of our elite Project Mentor users,
belonging to a small (but growing) number of people
worldwide who have scored 90%+ in our Personal Learning
Plan competency evaluation. |
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User Profile - Marsh Inc.
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100+ Project Mentor Users |
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With almost 130 Project Mentor users, Marsh Inc. of
Chicago purchased Project Mentor for project managers
involved in a global project to deploy one of their risk
management solutions within their offices worldwide.
They initially purchased 10 Project Mentor licenses as
part of their evaluation and acceptance program.
This was followed in early 2003 with a full deployment
of a further 110+ Project Mentor licenses. Their
key evaluation requirements were:
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To have a training option that could be deployed
across multiple offices simultaneously, without the
need for people to travel to classroom-based
training sessions.
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To be able to assess learning gains for users on a
worldwide basis; without having to speak to or see
the users in person.
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To have a solution that provided consistency of
tuition, whether users were based in Chicago,
Chennai or Copenhagen.
Project Mentor provided Marsh with a solution costing
them less then $200 per user. The average Marsh
user had 50% more Microsoft Project knowledge after
using Project Mentor than they did before. |
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Marsh is one of the world's leading risk and insurance
services firms, with almost 30,000 employees and annual
revenues exceeding $5 billion. They provide risk
management and insurance solutions for clients in over
100 countries. |
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