Wednesday 28 April 2010 - 10.30

Content: How did your organisation perform in the recession? How will it perform during the upturn? Making the most of the economic environment is critical to the success of our companies and our careers. In the public sector, the environment is even more uncertain. What if your budgets are radically changed tomorrow? What projects do you stop? What changes do you initiate? What investment calls do you make?In this presentation we’ll show you how implementing a Portfolio Management approach using Microsoft Project Server 2010 can help you and your organisation achieve success in times of great uncertainty.

Wednesday 28 April 2010 - 11.00

Content: Experience Microsoft Project 2010 and hear from Microsoft about all the new features and functionality that make it the most significant release of Microsoft Project in a decade. In this session Microsoft will showcase the more simplified and intuitive user interface, new unified Project and Portfolio Management capabilities and just some of the enhanced collaboration and reporting features.

Wednesday 28 April 2010 - 12.00

Content: Using Project Professional 2010 and SharePoint Foundation together can act as the catalyst within an organisation to support improved collaborative project management.  Christopher Pond, Managing Consultant at Corporate Project Solutions will demonstrate live the two technology solutions working together and explore how organisations can utilise the functionality for maximum results.

Wednesday 28 April 2010 - 13.00

Content: UMT’s ‘Project Financial Server’ works as part of Project Server 2010 to extend the capabilities surrounding project risk and impact, and provide a comprehensive cost and benefit management framework that covers the project’s life from initial idea through to transition and benefits realisation.  This session will present the functionality of Project Financial Server so attendees gain an understanding as to how the solution can support effective cost and benefit planning and tracking as part of comprehensive project management.

Wednesday 28 April 2010 - 14.00

Content: Project collaboration, communication and governance of process involving people from multiple organisations has always been a challenge. 
IMGROUP have modelled a number of enterprise project templates using Project 2010 to facilitate the planning, management and delivery of projects according to our information management process, but also provide a service to clients by providing them with access to a shared collaboration area. In this session, IMGROUP will demonstrate how Project 2010 is being used to streamline collaboration, communication and governance of process.

Wednesday 28 April 2010 - 15.00

Content: Collaboration is a hot topic for 2010, with the new release promising a host of improved features to benefit project management teams.  Christopher Pond, Managing Consultant at Corporate Project Solutions will reveal the enhanced selection, prioritisation, demand management and team planner functionality available in Project 2010 and demonstrate the improved Business Intelligence and timeline views.

Wednesday 28 April 2010 - 16.00

Content: On-demand Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) can allow your organisation to roll-out a solution faster, more reliably, and at a lower cost than deploying in-house. In this session you will learn about the advantages and disadvantages of hosting EPM, and you will hear from a customer on their experiences of using hosted EPM versus on-premise EPM.  You will discover why there is increasing demand amongst corporations for hosted platforms as the underlying infrastructure becomes more complex. We will also cover issues such as data privacy and security for those who have concerns about adopting a hosted platform.

Thursday 29 April 2010 - 10.00

Content: Successful project management is not only about resource management.  Communication, collaboration and a place to store all the project information are key to all great projects.  Come and see the new features of SharePoint 2010 for collaboration, knowledgebase, people and skills finder, enterprise search, blogging, status updates and tagging can be used to power up the productivity of your project teams.

Thursday 29 April 2010 - 11.00

Content: Experience Microsoft Project 2010 and hear from Microsoft about all the new features and functionality that make it the most significant release of Microsoft Project in a decade. In this session Microsoft will showcase the more simplified and intuitive user interface, new unified Project and Portfolio Management capabilities and just some of the enhanced collaboration and reporting features.

Thursday 29 April 2010 - 12.00

Content: This session will show the latest version of the Pcubed DeliveryHub and how it is the perfect complementary enhancement to the new Microsoft Project Sever 2010 solution. Over 15 years of global experience with over 1,000 organisations means a Pcubed solution adds value to your organisation from day 1.

Thursday 29 April 2010 - 13.00

Content: Microsoft Office Project is the world's most widely used tool for Project planning. Microsoft's upcoming release of the product brings new features and functionality to the product which greatly improves productivity, reporting and collaboration. This session will focus on the key new features in the next version of the client, including the new ribbon UI, Timeline View, Team Planner View, User defined scheduling and general enhancements. You will also find out how to plan effectively for transition from 2000/2003/2007 to 2010 and what system requirements will need to be in place.

Thursday 29 April 2010 - 14.00

Content: Vince Hines, Managing Director of Wellingtone Project Management, will discuss the best practice development of PMO/PSO capability.  Drawing on a number of client examples, Vince will demonstrate how these organizations have significantly improved the maturity of their PSO and how they have leveraged the simple capabilities of Project Server to enable this change.  Vince will be discussing this topic from a business perspective, focusing what Project Server can do to reduce cost whilst improving efficiency, consistency and enabling informed decision making.

Thursday 29 April 2010 - 15.00

Content: Collaboration is a hot topic for 2010, with the new release promising a host of improved features to benefit project management teams.  Christopher Pond, Managing Consultant at Corporate Project Solutions will reveal the enhanced selection, prioritisation, demand management and team planner functionality available in Project 2010 and demonstrate the improved Business Intelligence and timeline views.