June 11, 2020 | 10:00am PDT & 1:00pm EDT Microsoft Project has been the most widely used Project Management software for several decades now. The advent of Project Server, and subsequently Project Online extended its reach to advanced portfolio management as well. These tools are......
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June 18, 2020 | 10:00am PDT & 1:00pm EDT Organizations are consistently challenged with limited resources. Add in today’s challenges with layoffs, furloughed resources and other impacts of the COVID crisis and many organizations are struggling to successfully manage their resources during these unprecedented times. ......
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June 25, 2020 | 10:00am PDT & 1:00pm EDT A project status report is a way to convey the current status of project. A status report is an important communication tool to keep clients, team members, and stakeholders up to date. Unfortunately, for many organizations......
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Jun 8, 2020 | 9:00am – 5:00pm When you need to quickly build a tailored project management solution it is not always easy to know which tools will fit your business needs. The new Project for the web and the Microsoft Power Platform are great......
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On-Demand In today’s fast-paced digital age, there is a need for an adaptive, responsive approach to managing the pipeline of work to be done. Constantly measuring the investment against the potential and actual returns, and rapidly changing direction without disrupting the flow of the organization.......
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On-Demand Whether you know it or not, your organization is currently part of an agile enterprise initiative. As your digital transformation increases agile work patterns, your ability to deliver customer value around your organizational and development value streams will define your success in the future.......
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On-Demand An enterprise agile transformation represents a major change initiative for any organization. Successful transformations require funding, long term commitment, and “buy-in” at every level of the organization. Commitment to new ways of thinking and working can take years to achieve expected business outcomes. A......
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On-Demand Discover how the new Microsoft Project for the web can help your teams be more collaborative to drive successful business outcomes. Through the Microsoft 365 platform with Microsoft Teams organization can work more flexibly to obtain greater value at every level of Project work......
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On-Demand Help your team achieve results with enhanced project transparency, communication, and accountability. Transform the delivery and management of projects by automating the flow of work and eliminating communication barriers. The Project Accelerator installs a pre-configured instance of Power Apps with Project for the web......
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On-Demand While we are not all on the front lines in the hospitals or working in other essential businesses maintaining the food supply and delivery channels, we are all looking for ways we can help. Inspired by Microsoft’s commitment to help during the COIVD-19 pandemic......
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On-Demand Executives are increasingly turning to digital investments to drive growth. These initiatives are designed to improve product/service competitiveness and take advantage of new market opportunities. CIOs can lead digital transformation efforts so their organizations can exploit technology innovation and become more product-centric in their......
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On-Demand With all of the required changes on organizations today, the pressure is on to achieve business agility. Organizational leaders understand the need to change toward business agility; however the journey is often misunderstood. Popular trends in enterprise agile, DevOps and cloud show documented benefits......
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On-Demand Project Management practices have changed significantly over the years, but the needs of organizations have remained the same. Transparency into all work across the Enterprise is essential for optimizing your resources. Think about it, resources often represent the biggest expense for most businesses. If......
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On-Demand Forecasting, Capital Planning, and Financial Planning – All key pain points that make or break projects. Move beyond traditional budgeting techniques to NextGen tips and tools focused on streamlining your financial planning. Join us for this seminar as we delve deep into capital budgeting......
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On-Demand Your dedicated Microsoft Project Solution Specialist and Microsoft’s 2019 PPM Partner-of-the-Year, Wicresoft invite you to a complimentary Tips & Tricks training session on how to leverage your existing investment in Microsoft Project Online to re-prioritize, manage and track your portfolio of projects to support......
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On-Demand Gartner reports that 80% of organizations are using some form of agile project management process. Although agile project management has been around for many years, the way we adapt it has changed significantly, especially as project portfolio management (PPM) practices have evolved. In today’s......
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On-Demand It’s all too common – organizations approve more projects than can be delivered leaving the teams over utilized and behind schedule. Take an active role to stop the ever growing list of backlogged projects and start focusing on only approving projects that align with......
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On-Demand In today’s fast-paced digital age, there is a need for an adaptive, responsive approach to managing the pipeline of work to be done. Constantly measuring the investment against the potential and actual returns, and rapidly changing direction without disrupting the flow of the organization.......
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On-Demand The key to creating value from managing work in your organization is to further leverage Office 365 and Microsoft Teams to plan and track all types of work. As your core enterprise productivity platform, Office 365 and Microsoft Teams is the central hub for......
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On-Demand Digital transformation is important to every organization. On top of the disruption it causes in today’s work environments, it has changed our way of consuming products and services. We now expect simplicity, 24/7 access, and the ability to access information from any device. This......
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On-Demand Given that digital business requires Agile PPM, PMO leaders are challenged to adapt governance processes to cover new, agile efforts that are different from “traditional” project management organizational structures. The requirement of successfully delivering projects using multiple delivery approaches side-by-side is not just a......
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On-Demand The principles of Agile continue to be a focus for Enterprise PMOs in 2020. Organizations are looking for more flexible ways of working to optimize speed and improve delivery while maintaining top down alignment and governance. Like traditional Project Management, there are organizational considerations......
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On-Demand Plan on your own terms! OnePlan supports the integration of other work management tools like Microsoft Planner, and the new Project for the web with Project Online. The integration of Microsoft Project Online allows you to see ONE portfolio that spans both traditional PPM......
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On-Demand Microsoft has recently announced a new vision for Microsoft PPM with Microsoft Project. The future of Microsoft Project will allow organizations to work the way they want to work, whether they are creating waterfall projects, agile boards or even portfolio roadmaps. Building a plan......
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On-Demand The new Microsoft Project is here! Join us to discover how the new Microsoft Project for the web, built on the Microsoft Power Platform, can help your teams be more collaborative to drive successful business outcomes. Through the Microsoft 365 platform with Microsoft Teams......
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On-Demand The business environment today is one of constant change and disruption, in which the value of new products has a shorter lifespan than ever before. Projects represent the future of every business. Project organizations are under pressure to increase velocity and become more dynamic,......
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On-Demand Most organizations today are delivering both agile and traditional projects within their project portfolio. In many of these cases, the portfolio isn’t a single portfolio at all – product development is managing their projects with agile tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira and......
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On-Demand Business agility is the new norm for all organizations. The ability to deliver value to customers on a consistent basis demands changing the traditional ways of making project portfolio investments. Lean Portfolio Management provides a way of rethinking the approach to evaluating projects and......
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On-Demand The Reimagine Microsoft PPM Summit Tour brings the very best session of Microsoft Project at Ignite. This webinar provides technical training led by Microsoft experts and your community. Join us to find out how the new Microsoft Project for the web extends project and......
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On-Demand Organizations are changing their portfolio planning practices from annual project-based planning to continuous product-oriented planning to accelerate business outcomes. In order to achieve this, PMO leaders must support their business partners to build more agile and flow oriented lean portfolio planning and agile delivery......
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On-Demand Learn how you can collaborate on Microsoft Project tasks and manage projects right in Microsoft Teams. Microsoft Teams is cloud-based team collaboration software that is part of the Office 365 suite of applications. The core capabilities in Microsoft Teams include business messaging, calling, video......
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On-Demand Lean Portfolio Management is now formalized as an approach to support business agility. It strives to accelerate the delivery of value from technology by closer alignment of strategy and investment funding and implementation of agile portfolio operations and lean governance. By adopting agile principles,......
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On-Demand More and more organizations are adopting Agile approaches to software and product development; however, most do not move completely to Agile for all their projects. Different stages of Agile maturity/transformation, and Waterfall thinking by executives create the need for a hybrid or bimodal Project......
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On-Demand Microsoft Project Online is a powerful online solution for Project Portfolio Management (PPM) and everyday work. Delivered through Office 365, Project Online enables organizations to get started, prioritize project portfolio investments and deliver the intended business value—from virtually anywhere on nearly any device. This......
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On-Demand With Scrum Agile project methods dominating work management, organizations require practical methods for achieving agile project portfolio management. The growth of Scrum Agile beyond IT and software development also places more pressure on Portfolio and Program Managers to consolidate all Agile work in the......
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OnDemand Most organizations today are delivering both agile and traditional projects within their project portfolio. In many of these cases, the portfolio isn’t a single portfolio at all; product development is managing their projects with agile tools and the PMO continues to use Microsoft Project......
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On-Demand When you look across an organization, there is one similarity across all teams – they all have work to manage. Work management encompasses all the activities needed to maintain a productive workforce. In many cases, the resource managers that are managing a team’s work......
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On-Demand Microsoft Project Online offers a flexible, powerful, comprehensive solution for Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and everyday work. Leveraging Project Online to increase productivity and provide transparency across your portfolio in the most effective way, without introducing complexity, is critical to your PMO’s success. Join......
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On-Demand With the demands for greater organizational change through strategy realization, the focus on resource capacity aligned to business outcomes is more important. Scaling resource capacity planning for strategy realization continues to be a challenge given legacy strategic planning cycles and organizational structures. An approach......
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On-Demand Like most organizations, Agile is in place, either in pockets in IT or as part of software development teams. There is Agile project management in the organization, and things are evolving with the number of Agile projects increasing. Also there are non-Agile type of......
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On-Demand To further accelerate business outcomes by leveraging the cloud, applications defined as cloud candidates require their own portfolio management selection and prioritization. By managing cloud application initiatives as a focused portfolio, full benefits from cloud migration can be obtained. This involved performing business cases......
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On-Demand It’s all too common – organization approve more projects than can be delivered leaving the teams over utilized and behind schedule. Take an active role to stop the ever growing list of backlogged projects and start focusing on only approving projects that align with......
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On-Demand Every organization faces the pressure to accelerate business outcomes by leveraging cloud technologies. The desired end state is an organizational cloud capability that allows the delivery of the benefits from using cloud technologies. Central to a cloud capability is the ongoing assessment of the......
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OnDemand Today’s organizations are constantly trying to determine the right mix of projects to do to get the most strategic value. With limited resources and budgets, making sure that the “right” projects are in their Portfolio can help an organization maximize their investments while staying......
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On-Demand Consolidating all work across the enterprise is critical to get the insights you need to make data-driven, informed decisions. The data is everywhere, however work groups must be able to rely on the tools and applications that work best for them, including Aha!, Dynamics......
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On-Demand According to the latest State of Agile survey, 94% of today’s organizations are practicing Agile, but 80% are practicing at a below “still maturing” level. While process arguments continue and Agile is now preferred, there is still a long road ahead for the early adopter practitioners.......
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On-Demand The success rate of the project portfolio increases when you have a handle on human resource supply and demand. Without resource insights, the organization takes on work that it can’t complete to expectations. Resource planning is a tough subject that can’t succeed without a......
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On-Demand Are you looking to add dynamic reporting to your PMO tool belt? Are you looking to enhance and optimize performance of outdated or slow reports? As Microsoft continues to release updates to Power BI, best practices and enhanced functionality evolves. Performing regular health checks......
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On-Demand Resource management in an organization can be a challenge for any number of reasons. What if you had a more formal request and approval process that enabled greater visibility for resource managers into the allocation and capacity of their resources? Now you do –......
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On-Demand For today’s modern Professional Services Organization (PSO), connectedness, transparency and performance matter more than ever. We are excited to introduce Microsoft Dynamic 365 for Project Service Automation and Microsoft Project Online solution that will help you connect your teams, drive predictability& profitability and successfully......
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On-Demand As Agile becomes the dominant methodology of choice for delivering large solutions in organizations, the need to scale at different levels has become a necessity. The Scale Agile challenge is about the flow of information at the Team, Program and Portfolio Level. Scrum Teams......
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On-Demand The Project Management Institute (PMI) reports that almost three-quarters (71%) of organizations report using Agile approaches sometimes, often, or always. Per Capterra, a Gartner company that aims to help businesses find the right software solutions, Microsoft Project holds steady as the most popular Project......
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On-Demand In the age of continuous disruption, a PPM strategy and ongoing practice innovation are critical to a PMO’s success. Delivering value to the business has become so crucial that transformation activities are becoming a key element in every portfolio. How organizations take strategic plans......
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On-Demand Traditional project management environments can be cumbersome giving way to rise of Agile Digital PMO workplaces. Wicresoft’s revolutionary Project KickStart enables you to get your Agile Digital PMO using Project Online solution configured to meet your organizational needs quickly and cost effectively while using......
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On-Demand Years of recession, business austerity and highly competitive environments have increased the requirement for managing and delivering projects with fewer and fewer resources. Now is the time to leverage the time and cost value of online PPM. Microsoft Project Online offers a flexible, powerful,......
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On-Demand PMO environments have progressed from static environments to that of constant change. Project Management applications have become more complex and less intuitive due to the demand for more capabilities. This has led to many challenges including the ability to meet the technology need for......
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On-Demand Migrating to Project Online is a critical component of PMO transformation, but starting the conversation and completing the first steps can be overwhelming to organizations who fear disruption to current workloads as well as the unknown. With the right guidance and tools, Project Online......
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On-Demand Are you struggling with getting the right people working on the right projects? Do you face challenges in planning and collaborating across teams, businesses and geographies? Are you able to make confident, data-driven decisions about your services organization with instant access to real-time KPIs?......
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On-Demand Join us in this webinar to learn how Microsoft PPM will help your organization gain competitive advantage by delivering customer specific engineering projects on time and on-budget. By centralizing projects and enabling best practices with an enterprise project management solution, engineering organizations can overcome......
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On-Demand Learn how to create new Agile projects or apply Agile views to your existing waterfall projects. Join us as we show you how to track your projects using Scrum and Kanban methodologies, including viewing task boards, creating backlogs, and tracking sprints, as well as......
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On Demand Now more than ever, organizations are facing the need to tighten their controls over portfolio spending in order to increase their ROI and ensure maximum value to the business. You’ve heard over and over again the concept of doing more with less, but......
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On-Demand Everything is moving to the cloud! Project Online’s cloud-based platform provides the full capability of Project, together with SharePoint and integration with the entire Office 365 Suite. For today’s modern PMOs, making quick decisions based on real time data is critical. Agility can’t be accomplished......
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On-Demand The scarcity of resources and reduction of funds is a constant challenge for today’s organizations. Addressing these challenges can be a daunting endeavor for all types and sizes of businesses and teams. Smaller teams are especially challenged as they struggle with the same delivery......
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On-Demand IT departments commonly use an ITSM solution such as Microsoft Dynamics 365, Cherwell, and ServiceNow to track and manage requests for IT service. However, there is little process in place to manage larger pieces of work, such as projects and programs, and to understand......
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On-Demand Project management solutions can be isolated silos of information within a much larger and complex enterprise. A variety of tools for managing tasks and work are scattered across the organization, and often perform overlapping and similar functions. Redundancy and duplicate data entry can be......
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On-Demand Most software organizations would like to achieve Continuous Delivery. This becomes mandatory for any kind of scaled development effort. For teams that aren’t there yet, the limitations are not just technical. Sure, build, test, and deployment must be automated, but all involved must work......
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On-Demand More than 150,000 product and company leaders trust Aha! to set brilliant strategy and create visual product roadmaps and prioritizations. In addition, these same product teams use Jira or Azure DevOps for tactical task execution. Now, PMO teams managing product releases and life cycles......
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On-Demand Setting up a new PPM or Project Portfolio Management environment can be overwhelming, especially with the rise of digital transformation, where all systems and technology are connected. The need to prove value fast, so PMOs can get the right tools in place to deliver......
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On-Demand Transforming the way we do business has been an ongoing trend that continues to force Project Management Teams to think differently. Traditionally, the Project Manager’s key role is to control the project, but Social Work Management empowers the entire team and removes obstacles that......
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On-Demand Companies of all sizes are being faced with significant talent challenges. In the IT and Telecommunications industries specifically, attracting top talent is no longer the toughest roadblock – retaining them is. In today’s competitive workplace, personnel leaving for higher paying jobs creates a loss......
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On-Demand In today’s business environments, online software is known to provide a significant cost advantage over desktop software due to speedy implementation times, pay as you go pricing and automatic upgrades, but some organizations are still struggling to understand the long term value of moving......
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On-Demand So your projects are entered, your resources are set, and your budgets are aligned….now what? Getting the project information you need at the right time to make timely decisions is key to increasing productivity, preventing rework, and executing your portfolio flawlessly to deliver maximum......
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On-Demand For today’s modern Professional Services Organization (PSO), connectedness, transparency, and performance matter more than ever. Delivering value to your customers requires constant communication and collaboration across every project. Quantitative, tangible benefits that are customer focused will bring profitability and competitive edge to your PSO.......
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OnDemand The Healthcare industry is seeing a surge in project management growth to support the number of initiatives driven by federal legislation and movements to patient centered care, evidence based medicine, and establishing centers of excellence. These projects typically impact a variety of departmental areas......
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On Demand Webinar: View this webinar to learn how organizations can address the challenge of synchronizing and/or integrating data from ERP systems (such as SAP, Oracle, Deltek and other LOB) and Microsoft Project Online using OneConnect. We will share a case study with you that will......
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On-Demand Webinar: All too often, an organization or new user starting out with Microsoft Project starts by immediately entering tasks into a schedule. However, there are some important decisions and steps that should happen first! There are elements that should be standardized across an......
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On-Demand Determining the estimates for our tasks and their dependencies on each other are critical steps in building our Microsoft Project schedule. We want the schedule information to be as accurate as possible to enable us to understand when we can finish each task and,......
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On-Demand One of the biggest challenges on projects is making sure that we have enough people to perform all of the tasks needed to complete the project. In addition, our project may have equipment or material resources that we want to identify and manage. In......
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On Demand Webinar If your organization is like most, you and your colleagues spend hours and hours every week manually creating status reports for your projects. Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint slides proliferate and require constant updating and maintenance by whomever needs to report project progress......
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On Demand Webinar Citizen engagement systems are essential for connecting governments to the communities they serve. However, keeping pace with changing citizen demands has placed new stresses on government agencies. Now, governments must be transparent, accountable, and performance-oriented while attempting to close the gap. You......
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On Demand Webinar A picture is worth a thousand words. Microsoft Power BI presents stunning visuals and powerful analytical summation of your Microsoft Project Online data. Join us in this webinar to learn how to discover and visualize your critical data and produce actionable facts......
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On-Demand Join us for a virtual summit event: “Reimagine How Organizations Manage Projects, Resources and Work”. Business is moving faster, becoming increasingly collaborative and embracing more remote workers every day. For today’s modern organizations, connectedness, transparency and performance matter more than ever. To support customers......
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On-Demand Manufacturing is growing, supply chains are becoming more complex, and the need for speed is forcing manufacturing companies to have an agile yet structured approach to managing innovation – great product ideas cannot be left to chance. As the manufacturing landscape changes, implementing tools......
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On Demand Webinar: PMI’s 2016 Pulse of the Profession® reported diminishing project outcomes and a 12 percent increase in money wasted due to poor project performance. It is clear that organizations need to embrace project management as a strategic competency. Peter F. Drucker has a......
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Webinar: On-demand With Microsoft Dynamics Project Service professional services organizations can leverage Azure Machine Learning to recommend right resources for the right work based on updated skills and availability of consultants. Join us in this webinar to learn how Project Service will help simplify the engagement......
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On-demand Webinar: According to SPI research, services process maturity can help organizations gain up to 54% higher average revenue per employee. But mature process need to be enabled and automated with tools. In this webinar, you will learn how Microsoft Dynamics Project Service, a holistic......
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Webinar: On-Demand The healthcare industry is seeing a surge in project management growth to support the number of initiatives driven by federal legislation and movements to patient centered care, evidence based medicine, and establishing centers of excellence. These projects typically impact a variety of departmental......
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On Demand: Microsoft Project implements critical path methodology (CPM) to support the planning and management of projects by determining not only when each task CAN start and finish (the early dates) but also when each task MUST start and finish (the late dates) in order......
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Webinar: On-Demand Viewing project data that is relevant and timely in a concise, readable format is key to getting value out of your project online implementation. Once you understand what information your organizations wants and needs to see, knowing the tools that are available for......
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To view this webinar, click the “view now” button to watch the recording. Over the years software has become a necessary driver in innovation, a key player in the ability for us to connect with our customers, a means of bringing new products to market,......
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On Demand Microsoft Project Online 2016 has a lot to offer. In order to get the most out of your Project Online environment, you need to understand the tool’s functionality, assess the needs of your organization, and leverage the features that best align to ensure constant......
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On Demand – The concept of an Enterprise Program Management Office in government organizations has existed for many years. The challenge of improving program management through better process and tools remains a priority. The ultimate goal of improved program performance at the organizational level is still......
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On-Demand Webinar– Businesses today are beginning to realize that focusing on service excellence will provide the edge required to succeed in today’s increasingly competitive and dynamic business environment. Enterprise Service Management provides the model and tools to excel in the service area across all business service......
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