Why Project Online End of Life Might be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us
Why Project Online End of Life Might be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us
Microsoft’s decision to retire Project Online forced us to confront a question many organizations are now facing: what comes next? In this MPUG webinar, Eric Christoph will explain how that decision directly drove us to build a replacement, ProjectXL, initially as a practical answer to the need for a credible desktop scheduling solution. But as the work progressed, it became clear that simply replicating the old model was not enough.
What You'll Learn
Key takeaways from this session
Evaluate how Microsoft Project Online’s retirement creates both a replacement challenge and an opportunity to rethink the role of scheduling within a broader project-controls environment.
Distinguish between a traditional scheduling tool and a more complete project-controls platform that integrates schedule, cost planning, financial context, historical analysis, and guided workflow support.
Assess the practical limitations of fragmented project-management toolchains and identify the benefits of a governed desktop environment built to support more credible Estimate at Complete outcomes.
Explain how context-aware AI can support project-controls practice more effectively than generic chatbot-style assistance by grounding analysis in actual project state, history, and workflow context.
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About the Presenter
Eric Christoph
Earlier in his career Eric served as Corporate EVM Subject Matter Expert for L-3 Communications. In that role he implemented multiple EIA-748 Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS) and helped build baseline plans for over 100 projects and proposal efforts with a combined value over $400B. Eric also represented L-3 on the Board of the NDIA Integrated Program Management Division (IPMD) which oversees the EIA-748 standard. Over the last fifteen years Eric has contributed to several key guidance documents related to EVM including the PMI Practice Standard for EVM, MIL-STD-881, and GAO-16-89G. Today, Eric is a Senior Partner at Transformative Management Solutions where we help project teams and organizations implement EVM and Agile project control solutions using Microsoft Power Platform technologies.
