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About Ben Howard
Ben Howard – Awarded Community Leader for his very popular and comprehensive UK web training series and has over 30 years of experience of implementing enterprise solutions for customers worldwide. During that time, he’s worked for IBM, DELL, and Microsoft, as well as several smaller organisations. He now runs his own consultancy (Applepark Ltd), providing Project, Project Online and Power BI implementation and training services. He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Value Professional award for Project for the last 13 years, blogs semi-frequently at www.applepark.co.uk, produces video training for Pluralsight and his own YouTube channel, and finally was responsible for producing P2O, an application that exports tasks from Microsoft Project into Outlook. You can catch him at ben@applepark.co.uk
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LatestAutomate Microsoft Planner reporting using Microsoft Power Automate and Power BI (Lesson 2)
Event Description:Welcome to part 2 of this 2 part training session. In this session you will be shown how to use Power Automate to query all of the Planner tasks and […]
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Automate Microsoft Planner reporting using Microsoft Power Automate and Power BI – Lesson 1
In this lesson (part 1 of 2) I’ll show you how to use Microsoft Planner to plan and manage lightweight projects, and how Planner integrates seamlessly into Teams, providing a single interface to track and manage all of your tasks, both from Planner and from Outlook.
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Power BI for Business Users and Project Managers – Part 3: Creating Reports using the Power BI Desktop App
Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs):This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Strategic category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: Once we’ve got our data […]
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Power BI for Business Users and Project Managers – Part 2: Deep Dive into Shaping Data using Power Query
Watch Part 3 On-Demand Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs):This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Strategic category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: Data […]
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Power BI for Business Users and Project Managers – Part 1: Introduction to the Power BI Suite
Watch Part 2 On-Demand Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs):This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Strategic category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: This […]
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ReadCreating a Data Driven Culture with Power BI
The fourth industrial revolution, or ‘digital revolution’ as many have called it, brings more data into our awareness than we’ve ever had before—so much data, in fact, that we have […]
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Microsoft Planner Deep Dive
Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 0.75 PMI® PDUs in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: In this […]
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ReadBest Practices for Integration of Microsoft Project and Excel
Introduction This article discusses Microsoft Project and Excel integration points, specifically in the following areas: Why Bother with Excel? First things first! My view is that Excel has become the […]
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Using Sprint Projects in Microsoft Project
This is the second in a two part series covering the Agile capabilities of Microsoft Project. In the first article, we discussed Kanban boards. Now we will look at Microsoft’s […]
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Using Kanban Boards in Microsoft Project
Introduction There has been a lot written over the last year regarding Microsoft’s foray into the world of Agile Project Management by way of new improvements in Microsoft Project. This […]
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Modifying Microsoft’s Project Online Power BI Content Pack to Support Your Language
Content Pack Overview If you are using Project Online (PJO) then you are probably using the OData feed for reporting purposes, the two most common options being to bring the […]
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Using the Microsoft Planner App
This is the second part of a two part series on using Microsoft Planner. Using the Microsoft Planner App Because Planner is cloud based, there is an App for it […]
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