Key Points:
• Microsoft’s Power Platform is a collective term for three application development solutions – Power BI, Power Automate, and Power Apps..
• Microsoft Project Online can be extended with Power Automate to integrate with other systems, such as a finance system to pull actual costs into projects. It can also be used to push information from Project back to other systems.
• Extending functionality can include adding business processes, document approvals, synchronization with financial and inventory systems, cost controls and synchronization to other systems like SharePoint.

Key Points:
• The Microsoft Project ecosystem is constantly evolving to meet and exceed user requirements.
• You are likely not accessing all the powerful functionality that is available.
• Upgrading to the latest Project Server version or migrating your project environment to Project Online can offer significant savings and opportunities.

Key Points:
• Microsoft introduces Project for the Web, a new way to manage simple projects.
• The release of Project for the web reinforces Microsoft’s commitment to the Project family, allowing people to work the way they prefer to work.
• Western Principles recommends that current Microsoft Project Online users optimize their current environments and test use cases for the new Project for the Web.

Key Points:
• Building a schedule is easy. Building a GOOD schedule is another story.
• How does your schedule rank against the Defense Contract Management Agency 14 Point Assessment?
• Western Principles and UMT360 can help you run reports and real time evaluations of your schedules to find the weak links.

Key Points:
• Financial Institutions face a variety of complex challenges, that all cluster around profitability.
• Portfolio Management solutions can help a Financial Institution optimize the selection of critical projects considering both constrained budgets and resources.
• Selecting the right projects will reduce organizational risk and drive higher returns.

Key Points:
• Capturing Lessons Learned from project experience is critical to future success.
• Lessons Learned must be owned by the PMO/EPMO and actioned to drive continuous improvement.
• Only what is measured can be managed, a Lessons Learned business process can be measured and managed.

Key Points:
• Digital Project and Portfolio Management is about transformational change
• Pull information from disparate systems into a single-source-of-truth to drive better and faster decisions
• Improve the quality and efficiency of project work with new technologies working together

Key Points:
• Natural time to re-evaluate your PPM Initiatives
• Look at how to best improve your organization’s project delivery performance.
• Maximize Return On Investment for your 2019 Project Portfolio

Key Points:
• Budgeting is a painful process, dominated by spreadsheets and squeaky wheels
• #1 goal must be alignment of investments with strategy
• A repeatable system, made up of people, processes, and technology, can accelerate your ability to select the right investments and drive higher ROI.

Key Points:
• Keep your Executive stakeholder engaged
• Communicate, Collaborate and Accelerate
• Drive higher ROI

Key Points:
• If you can’t see it you can’t measure it (and if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it)
• Metrics drive performance improvement behaviours
• Publish and respond to strategic and tactical key performance indicators