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Is your Project Online migration plan missing these 4 pillars?
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's June 2, 2026 In This Issue: New Article: 5 Reasons to Attend - 4 Pillars of Project Online to Be Aware of When Migrating Resource Article: Why Platform Migrations Fail (And How to Land Yours Successfully) Lesson Spotlight: Mastering Your Move - Planning for a Successful Migration from Project Online Live Event (6/3): 4 Pillars of Project Online to Be Aware of When Migrating PM Best Practice: Start Your Migration with a Data Inventory, Not a Timeline...
Are you using Jira Plans or just looking at it?
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's May 26, 2026 In This Issue: New Article: It's Not Unusual - Why Projects Behave Badly and Why Good PMs Expect It Resource Article: Decoding Jira - A Comprehensive Guide to Structure, Workflow, and Best Practices Video Tutorial: Intro to Jira Plans - Team Capacity Planning Live Event (5/27): Jira Plans Part 2 - The Deep End PM Best Practice: Set Capacity Before You Start Planning Tuesday Brief: Ronald B. Smith wants to know why you're still surprised...
Who's writing your status reports next month?
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's May 19, 2026 In This Issue: Featured Article: Two Project Manager Agent Features You Might Like Resource Article: Balancing AI and Human Expertise - The 4 C's Framework Video Tutorial: The Project Manager Agent in Action Live Event: Microsoft Planner and AI - Better Together PM Best Practice: Brief the Agent Like You'd Brief a New Hire Tuesday Brief: AI agents have arrived in Microsoft Planner, and the question every project manager is asking is a...
The schedule logic most PMs never actually look at
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's May 12, 2026 In This Issue: New Article: A New Look at Network Diagrams Featured Article: Microsoft Project Critical Path 101 Video Tutorial: How to Use the Relationship Diagram View in Microsoft Project Live Event (5/13): A New Look at Network Diagrams PM Best Practice: Don't rely on a single schedule view Tuesday Brief: Most project managers spend their days inside the Gantt view, but the dependency logic underneath that timeline is where schedule...
How do you get reports out of Microsoft Project Desktop?
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's May 5, 2026 In This Issue: New Article: 5 Ways to Get More Value from Your Microsoft Project Desktop Data Featured Article: Unleashing the Power of Reporting in Planner Premium with Dataverse and Power BI Tutorial Video: Power BI for Beginners - Build a Report for Free with Power BI Desktop Live Event (5/6): Connecting Microsoft Project Desktop to Dataverse: A Practical Approach to Data, Risk, and Continuity PM Best Practice: Define your reporting...
Why your risk register gets filed and forgotten
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's April 28, 2026 In This Issue: Featured Article: Are You Running a Risk Meeting or a Risk Workshop? New Article: The Toilet Paper Rule - Why Small Problems Become Big Failures Resource Article: Risk Identification Techniques and How to Brainstorm Well Live Event (4/29): Are Risk Workshops the Missing Piece to Your Risk Management Puzzle? PM Best Practice: Interview Your Team's Pessimist Tuesday Brief: Risk management is on the agenda this week, and...
Need a dashboard by Friday?
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's April 21, 2026 In This Issue: New Article: "I Need a Dashboard by Friday" — How AI Just Made That Possible From the Archive: Microsoft 365 Copilot and the PMO Live Event (4/22): Excel + AI: The Smart User's Guide to Faster, Easier Work with ChatGPT PM Best Practice: A quick tip on stakeholder updates Tuesday Brief: This week's issue is about AI as a practical working tool, not a future-of-work concept. Mike Thomas shows how ChatGPT can handle the "I...
Your PMO has the data. So why can't leadership see it?
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's April 14, 2026 In This Issue: Featured Article: Why Tools Matter More Than Ever in Project Management This Week's Live Event: Turning Project Data Into Decision-Ready Visibility with Smartsheet Resource Article: Scope Creep - How to Prevent a Major Source of Project Failure PM Best Practice: Design Backwards From the Decision Tuesday Brief: This week, we're looking at one of the quieter frustrations in project management - organizations have more...
The scheduling step that makes status reporting easier
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's April 7, 2026 In This Issue: New Article: The Integrated Master Plan - Terrible Name, but a Great Idea Quick Watch: Show Stakeholders Only What They Need to See Live Event (April 8): The Integrated Master Plan: Terrible Name, but a Great Idea PM Best Practice: Define "Done" Before You Build the Schedule Tuesday Brief: This week we're looking at one of the more underappreciated frameworks in project controls: the Integrated Master Plan. Eric Christoph...
What to do when your project schedule is already behind
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's March 31, 2026 In This Issue: New Article: Managing the Sands of Time: How IT Projects Reflect an Hourglass Course Spotlight: Project Scheduling Fundamentals with Microsoft Project Resource Article: Take Back Control of Deadlines and Constraints in Your Schedule On-Demand Replay: Crashing the CPM Schedule in MS Project: Back to Basics Ways of Working PM Best Practice: Stop Managing the Clock, Start Managing the Flow Tuesday Brief: Tuesday Brief: Time...