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8 Steps to Microsoft Project Success

Date: This event took place live on September 25 2009

Presented by: Dux Raymond Sy

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Project managers today must work within tight schedules, changing scope and limited resources. If utilized appropriately, Microsoft Project is a powerful tool that can help you break a project down into manageable parts, define a realistic schedule, identify required resources and track projects accordingly.

In this presentation, you will learn how to leverage Microsoft Project by properly:

• Defining project schedule based on a project start or finish date
• Utilizing relevant project calendar
• Identifying tasks and dependencies
• Entering task estimates based on duration, work or resource
• Outlining resource availability and task assignments
• Tracking project actuals against project baseline information
• Creating reports for stakeholders

About Dux Raymond Sy

With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology, Dux Raymond Sy has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. He is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, Inc., a Microsoft-certified, business technology consulting and services company that serves startups to Global 50 clients.

As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he is focused on empowering organizations on how to leverage the benefits of collaborative tools with quantifiable goals such as: Increasing productivity and efficiency, decreasing collaboration redundancies and streamlining electronic communications. In addition, he is Bamboo Nation's resident project management expert.

A sought after trainer for Learning Tree International, he has developed and facilitated management and technology training to government organizations, Fortune 500 companies, non-profit institutions in the United States, Bahamas, Barbados, China, the United Kingdom and the Philippines and regularly writes about project management, SharePoint and globalization at MeetDux.com.

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