Ben Howard

Automate report updates, securely share Power BI insights, & export live data for presentations in this advanced session – empower informed decisions!

This lesson teaches the power of Power BI for captivating project reports: Import data, build visuals and gain insights in this introductory session.

This lesson teaches the power of Power BI for captivating project reports: Import data, build visuals and gain insights in this introductory session.

Power BI is a powerful tool for automating project reports. Learn how to use Power BI to connect to data sources like Project Online and Project for the web, create visualizations, and set up scheduled data refresh to ensure your reports are always up-to-date.

Streamline your project management with Project for the web Views. Discover all features and functionalities to improve efficiency and organization.

Power BI is a powerful data visualization tool that allows users to create stunning reports and dashboards. Learn how to import data, create visualizations like donut charts and stacked column charts, and publish and share reports with others.

Power BI is a business intelligence platform that helps organizations make sense of their data. Learn about the different Power BI products, how to use the Power BI Desktop App to create reports, and how to view reports using the Power BI Mobile App.

You will learn how to automate your reporting and how to automatically refresh data using project for the web or project online.

You will learn how to automate your reporting and how to automatically refresh data using project for the web or project online.

In this webinar you will learn about Power BI, how to cleanse existing data, how to derive new data values and link to data sources.

In this webinar you will learn about Power BI, who would be interested in Power BI, how to view Apps, and how to put together a simple report.

Many organizations use Microsoft Planner because it’s free if you have an Enterprise Plan! This is good news, but unfortunately it is difficult to report across multiple plans; the reporting options simply haven’t been built by Microsoft. To address this need I’ve created and published a solution that enables you to bring Planner tasks and assignments into Power BI which can be deployed by anyone who has access to the Power Platform.

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This is the first part of a two part series on using Microsoft Planner. Planner Overview Microsoft Planner is an Office 365 application that is aimed at providing a simple, […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: Outlook is the tool […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: Microsoft Project’s user interface […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs):This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: While Microsoft Project is the trusted system […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: Microsoft Project is a fabulous […]

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: In this session we will explore […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical Category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: Getting Started with Project […]

  Watch Session 3    Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 2 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: Getting […]

Watch Session 2  Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 2 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: Getting Started with […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 2 PMI® PDU in the Technical category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: Getting Started with Project Management and […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical Project Management talent triangle category. If you are claiming this session, […]

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*Please Note: Due to a technical issue with part 1 that resulted in it ending approximately 38 minutes into the session, we reorganized part 2 and 3 to include the […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical Project Management talent triangle category. If you are claiming this session, […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This webinar is eligible for 1 Category A PMI® PDUs in the Technical Project Management talent triangle category. If you are claiming […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This webinar is eligible for 1 Category A PMI® PDUs in the Technical Project Management talent triangle category. If you are claiming […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical Category of the Talent Triangle.   Event Description: Join Microsoft MVP […]

Introducing Teams The Team feature was introduced way back in Project Server 2007, and has persisted through to Project Online.  The feature consists of the following parts. A Resource Enterprise […]

One of my customers wanted a way to differentiate between mandatory and discretionary (or hard and soft) dependencies. For my customer, the idea was that they wanted to be able […]

Change highlighting is beautiful, but there are times when you do not want to display it – when you want to print the view, for instance. Now, of course, you […]

  Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 2 PMI® PDU in the Technical Category of the Talent Triangle.   Session 3 Welcome to […]

  Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 2 PMI® PDU in the Technical Category of the Talent Triangle.   Watch session 3 Session […]

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Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical Category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: In this session Ben […]

Trying to unravel the complexity of a large project plan can be quite difficult, especially with multiple links between tasks and links that might even disappear from the screen. Microsoft […]

Project Server 2013 (hereon in known as PS2013) introduces the timeline to the web, which is a great feature – so thank you, Microsoft, for that. Here’s a screen shot […]

Cost resources are a very useful feature of Project (and also therefore of Project Server), but there is at least one rule you need to follow.   Rather than telling […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1.5 PMI® PDU in the Technical Category of the Talent Triangle. Event Description: As our way of […]

Project Server 2010 allows for the option of auto-approving task status updates, and since SP1, this has become even more useful as the option to publish the update has been […]

This is something that in the past I have done manually, but due to a discussion on a Web2.0 application somewhere I had the idea that it would be possible […]

Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical Category of the Talent Triangle. Description: This session introduces the user […]

In Project Server 2007, Microsoft introduced the concept of Resource Plans in order to help plan and assess resource requirements for work or projects that weren’t fully defined. This article […]