Project and Portfolio Management Readiness Sessions for Microsoft Partners
The Microsoft UK Project and Portfolio Management team have worked tirelessly to organise various readiness sessions, aimed at Microsoft partners. These sessions include sales readiness training, tailored for sales and pre-sales employees, describing the common pain points customers experience and explaining how a project management can help, along with a sales overview of the Microsoft project management solution. There will also be a technical day in early 2010, aimed at developers and architects, which will cover various aspects of the Microsoft project management solution to a very deep technical level.
The first of these readiness sessions will be a series of sales readiness Live Meetings (part of the overall partner readiness Live Series), starting Tuesday 8th September at 4pm. Registration links for all of these Live Meetings are listed below. Register for the first one now- there’s not much time to spare!
Details of all the project management readiness training for partners is listed below. If you have any questions, or would like a pdf copy of this information, please contact me directly.
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Microsoft Project and Portfolio Management solution (Enterprise Project Management)
Upcoming Sales and Technical Readiness Events
Sales Readiness Live Meetings Tara Hellier
8th September 2009 4pm-5.30pm Project and Portfolio Management Sales Refresher
A 1.5 hour Live Meeting aimed at sales and pre-sales professionals to help them understand the business benefits of EPM, what customer pain points EPM can solve, how to identify EPM opportunities, gain an overview of the EPM architecture and how it fits in the Microsoft stack, and see an EPM product demonstration.
15th September 2009 4pm-5pm Project Server Overview
A one hour Live Meeting aimed at sales and pre-sales professionals to help them understand the capabilities of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, enabling them to better sell the EPM solution to their customers.
29th September 2009 4pm-5pm Portfolio Server Overview
A one hour Live Meeting aimed at sales and pre-sales professionals to help them understand the capabilities of Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, enabling them to better sell the EPM solution to their customers.
6th October 2009 4pm-5pm Demo Tips and Hot Topics
A one hour Live Meeting aimed at sales and pre-sales professionals who need to demonstrate the Microsoft EPM solution as part of their role. We will discuss best practices for demoing the EPM solution, how to set up demo environments and the primary topics customers are usually interested in.
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Project Management / EPM Recruitment Day Kevin Lief
20th October 2009
Microsoft UK, Thames Valley Park
Details to be announced closer to event
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Project Server Exam Preparation Course Ben Howard, MVP
2nd – 4th November
QA office, London
A three day course specifically designed to help the delegates to pass Exam number 70-633 ‘Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, Managing Projects’.
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Project Server Exam Cram Day Ben Howard, MVP
27th November 2009
Microsoft UK, Thames Valley Park
A 1-day ‘exam cram’ Project Server 2007 Certification preparation to help you get your technical consultants ‘across the line’ and passing the EPM exam number 70-633, i.e. ‘Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, Managing Projects’
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Partner Sales Readiness Day Tara Hellier
26th November 2009
Microsoft UK, Thames Valley Park
A one day training session, covering some aspects of the Microsoft EPM solution to a lower level, including project selection, project initiation, resource management, time and task progress tracking and collaboration, giving sales and pre-sales professionals more detailed product knowledge, allowing them to match EPM capabilities to customers’ needs.
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Sales Readiness Live Meetings Tara Hellier
11th November 2009 (TBC) 4pm-5.30pm Project and Portfolio Management Sales Refresher
A 1.5 hour Live Meeting aimed at sales and pre-sales professionals to help them understand the business benefits of EPM, what customer pain points EPM can solve, how to identify EPM opportunities, gain an overview of the EPM architecture and how it fits in the Microsoft stack, and see an EPM product demonstration.
24th November 2009 4pm-5pm Project Server Overview
A one hour Live Meeting aimed at sales and pre-sales professionals to help them understand the capabilities of Microsoft Office Project Server 2007, enabling them to better sell the EPM solution to their customers.
1st December 2009 4pm-5pm Portfolio Server Overview
A one hour Live Meeting aimed at sales and pre-sales professionals to help them understand the capabilities of Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2007, enabling them to better sell the EPM solution to their customers.
8th December 2009 4pm-5pm Demo Tips and Hot Topics
A 1 hour Live Meeting aimed at sales and pre-sales professionals who need to demonstrate the Microsoft EPM solution as part of their role. We will discuss best practices for demoing the EPM solution, how to set up demo environments and the primary topics customers are usually interested in.
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Annual Partner Technical Day Bob Walker/Tara Hellier
January / February 2010
Microsoft UK, Thames Valley Park
Details to be announced closer to event