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Your Top Picks of 2025: The Content You Loved Most
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's January 6, 2026 In This Issue: Top Ranked Article: The New PMBOK Guide 8th Edition + AI Deep Dive of the Year: Mastering Microsoft Project Visualization Evergreen MVP: How to Remove Blank Values in Excel Pivot Tables Hidden Gem: Why Your Project Schedules Are More Optimistic Than You Think Quick Win of the Year: Executive Level Reporting in Microsoft Project – Customizing the Gantt Chart View to Create an Executive Milestone Report (Part 2) 🏆 Top...
Is fear driving your team's decision-making? Here's how to tell
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's Tuesday Brief: The most damaging thinking pattern in project management isn't poor planning or missed deadlines. It's the unconscious shift to "either/or" thinking when fear takes over. This week, discover how to recognize when your team defaults to binary thinking, understand the connection between fear and defensive behavior, and learn practical strategies for building critical thinking skills that strengthen collaboration and resolve conflicts more...
Still doing variance analysis at midnight? There's a better way.
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's Tuesday Brief: This week, we're tackling one of project controls' most consequential yet misunderstood activities: variance analysis. Discover why the real breakthrough isn't just AI - it's the properly structured foundation that makes AI actually useful. Plus, join us tomorrow for a live demonstration of how this transformation looks in practice when the Christoph brothers show you their AI-driven variance analysis system in action. December 2, 2025...
Master Dependency Analysis in Microsoft Project + Live SSI Tools Demo
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's Tuesday Brief: Ever stare at a Microsoft Project schedule wondering why that critical milestone just slipped three weeks? The answer is hiding in your task dependencies, and most schedulers waste hours manually tracing predecessor chains to find it. This week, we're diving deep into dependency analysis techniques that turn hours of detective work into seconds of clarity. From powerful SSI Tools add-ins to Microsoft Project's built-in analysis views,...
Why modern programs have outgrown the Work Breakdown Structure
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's Tuesday Brief: Modern programs have outgrown the Work Breakdown Structure. While the WBS has served project management for over 50 years, today's multi-dimensional contracts with multiple CLINs, funding streams, and reporting requirements strain a structure designed for simpler times. This creates bloated control accounts, fractured accountability, and forces project managers to invent workarounds for basic integration visibility. This week we examine...
Excel Expert Q&A + How to Prevent a Project Haunting
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's Tuesday Brief: This week, master DAX measures with Mike Thomas before his live Q&A tomorrow, plus Ronald Smith's beloved Halloween tradition returns with project management wisdom wrapped in spooky fun. October 28, 2025 In This Issue: Video Tutorial: Excel DAX Measures Explained (with Examples) Live Event (10/29): Excel Power Hour #3 - Q&A with Mike "TheExcelTrainer" Thomas Featured Article: Ronald Smith's PM Survival Guide Community Poll: What's your...
The MS Project field that shows if your tasks are actually on track
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's Tuesday Brief: This week we're diving deep into Microsoft Project fundamentals that even experienced users often overlook. Discover how the Status field can transform your schedule management, learn a visual trick for tracking project progress, and test your knowledge with our community poll. Plus, reserve your spot for tomorrow's interactive event where we'll uncover 10 common Microsoft Project mistakes and how to fix them. October 21, 2025 In This...
Why 80% of identified risks never get a response strategy
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's Tuesday Brief: Identifying risks is the easy part. It's knowing what to do with them that separates struggling projects from successful ones. This week, we're cutting through the analysis paralysis with clear response strategies for both threats and opportunities, plus a look at how enterprise-level tools operationalize these concepts in real project environments. October 14, 2025 In This Issue: Featured Article: From Threats to Action - Strategic Risk...
How data organization shapes every project decision you make
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's Tuesday Brief: Managing projects successfully requires more than just good people and solid processes. Increasingly, it demands thoughtful approaches to how we organize, share, and analyze information. Whether you're coordinating remote teams across time zones, presenting performance data to executives, or preparing for AI-assisted decision-making, the structure of your project information directly impacts your effectiveness. This week, we explore...
Risk Management That Actually Prevents Project Disasters + Live Primavera P6 Demo Tomorrow
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's Tuesday Brief: Most project disasters aren't caused by the risks you see coming - they're caused by the risks you never properly managed. This week, we explore systematic risk management using Primavera P6's integrated tools that go beyond simple risk registers to provide actionable threat and opportunity management. September 30, 2025 In This Issue: Featured Article: Managing Risks with Primavera P6 - Tools and Techniques for Threat and Opportunity...