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Do you plan how your project talks to its stakeholders?
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's October 20, 2026 In This Issue: Featured Article: Stakeholder Engagement - Building a Plan for Good Stakeholder Communication Resource Article: Two Project Manager Agent Features You Might Like Live Event: Coordinating Humans and AI Agents - The PM Role in a Hybrid Team PM Best Practice: Plan for the Messages You Didn’t Send Tuesday Brief: It's easy to plan the messages you send to stakeholders and forget the ones that come back. This week, Dr. Mike...
What does AI need to know about your project before it answers?
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's October 13, 2026 In This Issue: New Article: Context Engineering for Project Managers - Give AI the Project, Not Just the Question Resource Article: Prompt Engineering for Project Managers Featured Masterclass: Connect Microsoft Project Desktop to Copilot and AI Agents for a Modern PMO PM Best Practice: Date Every Figure You Hand to AI Tuesday Brief: An AI tool can only work with what you put in front of it. If the latest decision log, the moved date,...
A week after Project Online retired, what are teams struggling with?
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's October 6, 2026 In This Issue: Featured Replay: 4 Pillars of Project Online to Be Aware of When Migrating New Article: Teams Google Calendar Sync Retires in October 2026 - What Project Managers Need to Do Ask the Panel: Send Us Your Project Online Question Live Event (10/7): Life After Project Online - A Community Roundtable PM Best Practice: Hold New Features Until the Basics Land Tuesday Brief: Project Online has been offline for a week, and most...
What holds a team together when someone slips?
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's September 29, 2026 In This Issue: New Article: The Climbing Rope - Why Projects Rise or Fall Together Featured Article: AI Agents in Jira Can Now Write, Not Just Read - Rovo A2A Goes GA Live Event (9/30): Building a Lightweight Risk Management Framework in Jira and Confluence PM Best Practice: Give Every Dependency One Named Owner Tuesday Brief: Project Online retires tomorrow, and this issue looks at what keeps a team steady when the ground moves....
Project Online Retires in 8 Days. Have You Picked Where You're Going?
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's September 22, 2026 In This Issue: Featured Replay: Mastering Your Move: Planning for a Successful Migration From Project Online Resource: Track Your PDUs Automatically Live Event (10/7): Life After Project Online - A Community Roundtable PM Best Practice: Run a Premortem Before You Cut Over Tuesday Brief: Project Online shuts off for good on September 30, and once the calendar flips to October 1, there's no read-only window, no grace period, and no way...
The Planner feature that just stopped being premium
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's September 15, 2026 In This Issue: Featured Article: Microsoft Planner Redesign Rolls Out This Month - What Project Managers Need to Know Course Spotlight: Project Scheduling Fundamentals with Microsoft Project Video Tutorial: Custom 30, 60, 90 Day Lookahead Views in Microsoft Project Live Event (10/7): Life After Project Online - A Community Roundtable PM Best Practice: Tell Your Team Before the Interface Changes Tuesday Brief: Microsoft is rolling out...
Why do two PMs get different answers from the same AI?
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's September 8, 2026 In This Issue: New Article: Prompt Engineering for Project Managers Community Poll: Where does your organization stand with Project Online? Live Event (10/7): Life After Project Online - A Community Roundtable PM Best Practice: Read Your Own Report as the Sponsor Tuesday Brief: Most of the AI conversation in project management right now is about tools, and there is no shortage of them. This week we're looking at the other half of the...
Why your Power BI reports won't survive the move off Project Online
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's September 1, 2026 In This Issue: New Article: Three Things That Took the Longest in Real Project Online Migrations Resource: What Microsoft's Export Tool Actually Does New on MPUG: The PDU Tracker Live Event (10/7): Life After Project Online - A Community Roundtable PM Best Practice: Find the Dependency You Don't Control Tuesday Brief: Project Online retires on September 30, which puts a hard edge on this month for anyone still working through a move....
Can Copilot read your MPP files?
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's August 25, 2026 In This Issue: New Article: The Project Nobody Sees - Why the Real Project Never Appears on the Gantt Chart Tool Update: Copilot Credit Usage Now Has a Dashboard Featured Masterclass: Bridge the Gap - Seamlessly Connect Microsoft Project to Planner Premium Live Event (8/26): Connect Microsoft Project Desktop to Copilot and AI Agents for a Modern PMO PM Best Practice: Check the Logic Before You Point Anything At It Tuesday Brief: An AI...
What actually happened when these teams left Project Online
Join Now | Discussion Forum | Earn PDU's August 18, 2026 In This Issue: Live Event (8/19): Real Project Online Migrations - What Worked, What Didn't Featured Master Class: Mastering Your Move - Planning for a Successful Migration from Project Online PM News: The PMP Exam Changed Last Month PM Best Practice: Inventory Your Enterprise Configuration Before It Disappears Tuesday Brief: In February, Ira Brown walked us through the options for leaving Project Online. Tomorrow he comes back to...