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 back in. If you haven't picked where you're headed yet, this week's replay walks through the four real options and what each one actually costs you. We're also tracking the panel that picks up where the deadline leaves off, plus a quick way to keep your PDU record straight while everything else is in motion.
Featured Replay: Mastering Your Move: Planning for a Successful Migration From Project Online
Ira Brown of Project Widgets laid out exactly what happens on October 1: if you try to connect to Project Online, the system simply won't let you in. No grace period, no read-only access, and nothing Microsoft has signaled will change that. If you're still deciding where your projects land, this session breaks down the real tradeoffs:
Project Server Subscription Edition: the least disruptive move for end users. Same Microsoft Project desktop experience, just pointed at a new URL, with your data now living in a SQL Server database for easier reporting and integrations.
Planner Premium: Microsoft's lighter-weight, web-based option. Not built to match Project's enterprise features, and not trying to be.
Smartsheet: user-friendly and highly configurable, though you'll give up multiple baselines and task-level calendars.
Standalone MPP files: keeps you working, but you lose enterprise fields, calendars, and reporting once you're off the platform.
Ira's bottom line: whichever path you choose, start now. The longer organizations wait, the fewer options and the less runway they have to do it right.
MPUG members can watch the full replay in PM Masterclasses.
With so much in motion this month, your own credential maintenance is an easy thing to let slide. MPUG's PDU Planner keeps a running record of what you've earned through live events and on-demand content in your MPUG account, so you're not reconstructing it from memory when renewal time comes around.
Live Event (10/7): Life After Project Online - A Community Roundtable
Once the deadline passes, the conversation shifts from "what do I do" to "what actually happened." This roundtable brings together Erik van Hurck, Ira Brown, Nenad Trajkovski, Eric and Jeff Christoph, and Tim Runcie, with additional Microsoft MVP guests to be announced, for an open discussion of how their migrations actually went.
What You'll Learn:
Where each panelist's organization landed, and why
What surprised them once they were mid-migration
What they'd tell a team just starting the process today
Where the gaps still are, six days after retirement
🗓️ Wednesday, October 7 🕛 12:00pm - 1:00pm ET 📍 Live on Zoom 🏅 1 PMI PDU: Business Acumen
This session is exclusive to MPUG members.
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PM Best Practice: Run a Premortem Before You Cut Over
Before any major system cutover, gather your team and imagine it's six months from now and the migration failed. Have everyone write down why. It surfaces risks people won't raise in a normal status meeting, because you've given them permission to assume failure instead of defending the plan.
