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 teams are now working in whichever tool they moved to. Tomorrow, six of the people who guided those migrations meet to compare what's holding up and where teams are still stuck. This issue helps you get ready: Erik van Hurck on the stage that starts after cutover, a second Microsoft retirement landing this month, and a chance to put your own question to the panel.
Featured Replay:4 Pillars of Project Online to Be Aware of When Migrating
In June, Erik van Hurck walked through the four pillars he has seen in every successful Project Online migration: scope, data preparation, the migration itself, and rollout and adoption. The first three were about getting off the platform before September 30. The fourth is the one most teams are working through right now.
Erik's advice is to train people with documentation written in your organization's own language. He also says to keep talking with your project managers and schedulers about what's working, and to hold process changes until users are comfortable with the basics. Erik is on tomorrow's panel, so it's a good refresher before you bring your questions.
MPUG members can watch the full replay in PM Masterclasses.
New Article:Teams Google Calendar Sync Retires in October 2026 - What Project Managers Need to Do
Project Online isn't the only Microsoft tool going away this fall. Microsoft is retiring calendar sync between Teams and Google Workspace this month. After that, calendars that used to stay matched will stop updating each other automatically. If your team or clients split their scheduling across both platforms, this short read covers what changes and what to set up before it happens.
Ask the Panel:Send Us Your Project Online Question
What's the one part of life after Project Online you'd still like an expert's take on? It might be a report that won't rebuild, a team that's slow to adopt the new tool, or a destination you're second-guessing. Reply to this email or write to editor@mpug.com, and we'll bring a selection of questions to tomorrow's panel. Anyone can send one in, and MPUG members can hear the answers live or on the replay.
Live Event (10/7): Life After Project Online - A Community Roundtable
One week after the retirement, Erik van Hurck, Ira Brown, Nenad Trajkovski, Eric and Jeff Christoph, and Tim Runcie meet for an open conversation about how things are going. It's a roundtable, so where the discussion goes depends on what attendees are dealing with, and the panel takes questions throughout.
What You'll Learn:
How the post-Project Online landscape looks to practitioners who ran real migrations
The challenges teams are hitting now, and how they're solving them
What peers in the same position are running into
Direct answers from the panel on your own situation
🗓️ Wednesday, October 7 🕛 12:00pm - 1:00pm ET 📍 Live on Zoom 🏅 1 PMI PDU: Business Acumen
PM Best Practice:Hold New Features Until the Basics Land
Once your new tool is live, resist the urge to switch on every new capability at once. In the 4 Pillars replay, Erik van Hurck advises bringing in process changes only after people are comfortable with the core workflow. He also recommends checking in regularly with your project managers and schedulers about what's working and what isn't. Let that feedback set the pace for new features, so people still learning the basics don't get overwhelmed.
