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Microsoft Project Ignite Technical Training

Dates: 18 – 20 September

SYDNEY – Microsoft North Ryde Ground Level

 

What is Project Ignite?

Project Ignite is technical training offered directly from Microsoft to IT Professionals, Developers and Solution Architects.   This training helps participants to understand the key changes and enhancements in the new Microsoft Project – especially Project Online Preview and Project Pro for Office 365 Preview.

Register for your spot today!

We are hosting a 3-day Project Ignite Training in Sydney, Australia, 18 – 20 Sept, 2012.

Registration is open to partners and customers, no code required - register now! Please note: Spaces for in-person attendees are limited. Already registered? Awesome! Please find the full agenda below and pass this information on to your colleagues!   For convenience, we also offer a virtual session via Lync for the same training sessions. The cost for in-person training is $99 per person, for virtual training it is $29 per person.  

All registered in-person attendees will receive a complimentary exam voucher during check-in on site*!

For registration questions, please contact ProjectIgnite@microsoft.crgevents.com.

 

FULL AGENDA:

Day 1

Time

Module

Module Detailed Description

Speaker

 

8:00 AM

Room Open, Breakfast, Register

 
 

9:00 AM

Welcome & Project Ignite Introduction

Jan Kalis

 

9:30 AM

What's new in Project Professional 2013 and Sync to SharePoint 2013

Highlights the key investments in Project Professional 2013 and Project Pro for Office 365 and the new exciting capabilities of building schedules in a SharePoint list and seamlessly connecting the two.  This gives Project Managers instant insight and additional tools to successfully manage projects.

Jan Kalis

 

10:45 AM

Break

   
 

11:00 AM

What's new with Microsoft's Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution

Provides an overview and demonstrations of both the online and on-premise capabilities of Microsoft’s *latest* Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution.

Christophe Fiessinger

 

12:15 PM

Lunch and Discussion

   
 

1:00 PM

Project Online Overview

This module will provide an overview of Office 365, introduce Project Online and Project Pro for Office 365, demonstrate how to get started with Project Online, and discuss Online frequently asked questions.

Christophe Fiessinger

 

2:30 PM

Break

   
 

2:45 PM

Business Intelligence in Microsoft Project

During this time we will explain and demo the BI investments of the Project Desktop as well as Project Server and Project Online. We will demonstrate technologies like PowerView and OData that Project is now using.

Jan Kalis

 

4:15 PM

Day 1 Wrap-up, Q&A, Discussion and Feedback

 
 

4:45 PM

Break

   
 

5:15 PM

Evening Informal Discussion Event

   

Day 2

Time

Module

Module Detailed Description

Speaker

 

8:30 AM

Room Open, Breakfast

   
 

9:00 AM

What's new for IT Professionals - Part 1 - Architecture

This module discusses Project Server 2013 architectural, administration and security changes.

Christophe Fiessinger

 

10:30 AM

Break

   
 

10:45 AM

Demand Management

Demand management is a key process for many customers in the Project Lifecycle.  From initiation and selection to planning and managing, Demand Management, typically follows the customer business process or methodology requirements consisting of Phases, Stages, Project Detail Pages (SharePoint page with Web Parts), Specific Custom Fields and Workflow. This session will discuss creation of a typical Demand Management process and showcase workflow creation in the Microsoft SharePoint Designer and Microsoft Visio!

Jan Kalis

 

12:15 PM

Lunch and Discussion

   
 

1:00 PM

Timesheet and Statusing

This module will provide an overview of timesheet and statusing improvements in Project Online and Project Server 2013.

Christophe Fiessinger

 

2:00 PM

Office Store Opportunity

Apps that are extending the product functionality could be published and acquired by customer directly from the Office Store. Join us to learn how you can benefit from publishing your Apps, Trainings or Solutions. We will also highlight the process and showcase some of the Apps from the Office Store.

Jan Kalis

 

2:30 PM

Break

   
 

2:45 PM

Project Desktop Extensibility

Project Desktop is a popular tool for millions of Project Managers. It now incorporates the Web Extensibility Framework and allows you to build Apps for Office that display contextual contents right in Project. The demonstration will show how to build Apps for Office that run in Project.

Jan Kalis

 

4:15 PM

Day 2 Wrap-up, Q&A, Discussion and Feedback

 

Day 3

Time

Module

Module Detailed Description

Speaker

8:30 AM

Room Open, Breakfast

 

9:00 AM

Extensibility - Server and Online - Part 1

Project Server and Project Online builds on top of SharePoint and Office 365. This module introduces the conceptual development approaches for the whole platform.

Jan Kalis

 

10:30 AM

break

 
 

10:45 AM

Extensibility - Server and Online - Part 2

This is Part 2 and goes deeper into Project Server's extensibility as well as covering Client Side Object Model (CSOM), JavaScript Object Model (JSOM), Event Receivers and other key extensibility components.

Jan Kalis

 

12:15 PM

lunch and discussion

 
 

1:00 PM

What's New for IT Professionals - part 2 - Deployment & Upgrade

Join an overview of the procedure to deploy Project Server 2013, as well as reviewing upgrade methodologies from prior versions.

Christophe Fiessinger

 

2:00 PM

Break

   
 

2:00 PM

What's new for IT Professionals - part 3 - Operations

Discuss Project Server 2013 operational improvements including Windows PowerShell, Active Directory Synchronization, Log Level Manager and Queue Stats Manager.

Christophe Fiessinger

 

3:15 PM

Day 3 Wrap-up, Q&A, Discussion and Feedback