Calendar of Events

Topic: Can Microsoft® Project Be Used for Agile
Speaker: Dr. Bob Barnes

Location:  Online Meeting (Zoom)
Date:  Tuesday, 1/17/2023
Time:  6:00 PM - 7:00 PM CDT
Cost:  Free
PDUs:  1

Background:
Dr. Barnes is a to-the-point, practical consultant, mentor, facilitator, and trainer. His international career spans over 30 years in industry: health, care, and quality; manufacturing; banking, finance, and accounting; transportation; information technology; and electric, gas, and water utilities among numerous others. He was among the first to both advocate and facilitate the integration of agile principles and practices across executive and operational levels ensuring greater client focus, faster time to market, higher revenue growth, lower costs, and an engaged workforce.

Description:
Agile methods are becoming increasingly prevalent, and have facilitated projects in reducing time to market, being adaptive to changing customer requirements, and increasing value to customers and organizations. These benefits have been implemented in both IT and non-IT environments to help all types of projects.

About the Webinar:
In this webinar, we will explore the new Agile capabilities in the Microsoft® Project Online
Desktop Client to manage sprints and Kanban boards. We will then illustrate Microsoft® Project

Agile Scrum:
• Views
• Tables
• Reports
Attendees of this webinar will receive 1 PDU and Microsoft® Project Template download in
Microsoft®.
Benefits

This webinar will cover:
•Agile Introduction
•Creating a New Agile Project
•Agile Scrum
•Microsoft® Project Agile Scrum Demonstrations
•Views
•Tables
•Reports
•Agile Kanban
•Microsoft® Project Agile Kanban Demonstration
•Summary

What You Will Learn
You will learn how to create new Agile projects or apply Agile views to your existing waterfall
projects. We will show you how to track your projects using Scrum and Kanban methodologies,
including viewing task boards, creating backlogs, and tracking sprints, as well as viewing reports
based on agile statistics.