SharePoint (and Project Server) Shenanigans

So on to the last two days of the conference…

Keynote Day Two

Initially Chris Crane discussed further how important partners are to the Microsoft Project eco-system.

Then Ludovic Hauduc, General Manager of the Project Business at Microsoft (Who has been involved with Project since 1994) discussed how he has moved from developer to his current role and how Microsoft themselves use Project, Project Server and its Portfolio Management capabilities to manage the future development of the product.

As part of his speech, he highlighted that Portfolio Management within EPM solutions was once seen as a technique for those with high project and portfolio maturity, causing an ivory tower affect.  Now, however with Project Server 2010, Microsoft has successfully brought this functionality to the masses in an easy to use interface improving the maturity, focus and success of project run on the SharePoint and Project Server 2010 platform.

Other parts of the presentation discussed the ease of use connecting Microsoft Project 2010 to the cloud with Office 365.  This was demonstrated to the audience…

Keynote Day 2 – Office 365 integration with Project 2010

(featuring Christophe Fiessinger as the “Geek”)

Sessions Attended

Wednesday

• Beyond the Basics: Business Intelligence Reports
• Take Your Project Reporting To The Next Level: Dashboards And Other Tools
• Cloud Bursting Techniques with SharePoint Online

Thursday

• UMT Project Essentials Pro – Effectively deploy a best practice Financial Governance framework for Project Server 2010
• Building advanced Project Server workflows with Nintex Workflow for Project Server
• Extending and Customizing the Project Server 2010 Timesheet to Drive Adoption and Achieve Business Results

A big thank you to all the presenters, the sessions were excellent.  I will definitely be downloading them for future reference.

Evening Events

On the Wednesday evening of the conference, Microsoft and Shark Pro software fired out the Arizona Space Center for the evening

My colleagues and I enjoyed the even very much, playing with all the experiments throughout the place including going into the planetarium

Overall the Project Conference was a massive success and I hope to be attending the next one!