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Project ideation, or Project Intake, is a mechanism that may be used to get project requests into the project online system. The Project ideation approach is one that involves using a SharePoint list as the location in which requests are entered into the system.

When it comes to the role of the Resource Manager in the context of Microsoft Project Online, there is much to consider. This is because project online provides considerable capabilities aimed at helping resource managers function in their role.

Microsoft Project Online is a powerful and effective project management tool built for Project Portfolio Management (PPM), as well as planning work of all types that is performed each and every day. Project Online is provided through Microsoft Office 365 and helps organizations of all types and sizes to manage project and resources, as well as select portfolios of projects that deliver the value required by the business.

Although a default instance of Project Web App is created upon signing up for the service in an Office 365 Portal, there are many times in which an organization may want to create or provision an additional Project Web App instance. For example, an organization may have separate security requirements in project web app instance.

Setting up Active Directory synchronization with Microsoft Project Online helps System Administrators simplify the maintenance of adding/removing user access to the Project Online system. The Active Directory Sync will add users to Project Online in order to provide access to Project Web App and more, as well as allows users to be assigned as Resources on project. Before we get into the sync, lets talk just a bit about Active Directory.

Have you ever tried to retrieve an enterprise project schedule template only to see the message: "Sorry, we had trouble connecting to get to the templates and can't show them right now"?

Even in a phased approach, adopting a project management system will be a challenge for the different roles to undertake

Recording Meetings in Microsoft Teams to capture audio, video, and screen sharing activity. The recording happens in the cloud, and is saved to Microsoft Stream so you can share it securely across your organization.

Looking for a perfect workplace collaboration solution? Explore the best features and benefits in our 2020 Microsoft Teams overview!

Advanced options in Microsoft Project can often add another level of customization project managers add to their toolbox to help manage projects. Custom fields, for instance, may be used to display colored graphical indicators to quickly communicate the status of the status of tasks in the project with regard to cost and other metrics.

In this Microsoft Project Training session we cover the various ways in which Microsoft Project Professional provides pre-installed graphical reports with additional formatting capabilities to make sharing project data with your team easier.

By tracking project performance and comparing it with the original plan (baseline), you can answer questions such as: Are resources spending more or less time than planned to complete tasks work?
Are higher-than-anticipated task costs driving up the overall cost of the project?

In this Microsoft Project Training session we cover the various ways in which resources may be assigned to tasks in Microsoft Project in the assignment planning process.

In this segment of our Microsoft Project Training webinar series Amanda Kuhlman instructs users on building a task with with Microsoft Project. In this session we cover entering tasks, entering Work and Duration, Setting Task Durations and Setting Constraints and Deadlines. Please join us!

Watch this Microsoft Project Training video on Resource Planning with Microsoft Project which introduces users to the Resource Pool and assigning resources to tasks.

In this third segment of our Microsoft Project Training webinar series Amanda will instruct users on the Topic Task Planning Part 2 with Microsoft Project. In this webinar we move on to understand the use of lags and leads, and how they make for a flexible project schedule when the opportunity to do so is available. We also review constraints and deadlines, and which constraints to avoid and how deadlines are a great alternative.
Next we move on to Task Types, which is typically one of the more complex aspect of Microsoft Project and therefore least understand.

In this first segment of our Microsoft Project Essentials webinar series Amanda will instruct users on the Topics Getting Started with Microsoft Project and Defining the Project. Getting Started with Microsoft Project
Learn about the MS Project interface, navigation elements, ribbons and other elements of the Project Interface as the Start Screen, Project Screen, and Backstage view are covered via lecture

Looking to create a connection from your Project Online environment to Excel? Excel is a powerful and one of the most commonly used reporting tools for Project Online. Excel allows you to pull, refresh, and transform data so it’s customized for your organization’s reporting needs.