The Ultimate Guide To Setting Up Teams And SharePoint For Project Management

Unlock New Career Opportunities and Master In-Demand Skills in Our Comprehensive 2-Part 9-hour Workshop recording. Connor takes you step-by-step through the entire build of an LMS system!

Suitable For

Beginners

Duration

4.5+ Hours Recording

Format

Workshop

Presenter

Lynzie Cotton

Key Highlights:

  • Centralize and visualize data: Embed Planner boards, Excel budgets, calendars and more to create an integrated project dashboard. Using Power BI for project reporting.
  • Master collaboration tools: Learn to build a project management hub in SharePoint, connect Teams for real-time chat, planner to track tasks, and a group calendar for events.
  • Efficiency through Automations: Discover how Power Automate makes it easy to build flows that eliminate repetitive manual work.
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What you'll learn:

  • Project reporting with Power BI: Use built in functionality and Power BI to keep track of all your projects down to the last task. Demonstrate your progress to team members, key stakeholders and clients, track risks and tackle issues with ease.
  • Using Microsoft Planner: Discover how to use MS Planner to organise your work and manage your team’s tasks to get the right things done at the right time and with added accountability. 
  • Keeping projects simple - the Kanban approach to projects: Learn how to leverage the power of Kanban to plan your projects, simplify your life and manage your work in progress. Kanban and Teams are a match made in heaven!
  • Bringing it all together: With the help of a little governance and some knowledge of team roles and admin you can keep your Project Management environment organised and maximise efficiency.
  • Centralize and visualize data: Embed Planner boards, Excel budgets, calendars and more to create an integrated project dashboard. Using Power BI for project reporting.
  • What is a project? Do I really do ‘project management’? Explore how a ‘project management’ mindset helps make your workload more manageable and trackable...
  • What are the ingredients of a great project management environment? Learn the elements that make for a great project management environment and how those elements will be accommodated within the Hub you will build.
  • Build your PROJECT HUB in SharePoint: Learn how to build your Project Hub, step by step. As part of this module, we will explore the options and decisions we need to make in order to understand its creation fully.
  • Adding automations to reduce repetitive tasks: Learn how to use Forms with Teams and create some simple automations with Power Automate to make life easier and reduce repetitive tasks.

Agenda:

Part 1 - Using SharePoint To Build Your PROJECT HUB

  • Introduction to SharePoint and MS Teams  
  • Interactive session - What is a "project"? Do I really do ‘project management’?
  • Interactive session - What are the ingredients of a great project management environment?
  • Build your PROJECT HUB in SharePoint 
  • Part 2 - Using Teams To Do Your Best Work!

  • Keeping projects simple – the Kanban approach to projects 
  • Using Microsoft Planner  to organise and manage your tasks
  • Project reporting with Power BI
  • Bringing it all together... 
  • Description:

    What You’ll learn from this Project Management Ultimate Guide:

    Many businesses have adopted Microsoft Teams in recent years but may feel they aren't utilizing its full potential. Turning to expensive third-party tools can further complicate matters and waste time. This workshop will demonstrate that you rarely need extra tools to meet your project management needs! In this hands-on guide, you'll learn how SharePoint and Teams fit into Microsoft 365's ecosystem and how understanding their relationship facilitates efficient collaboration.

    Step-by-step, we'll build a SharePoint-based project hub to centralize information. We'll add automations with Power Automate to reduce repetitive tasks. Exploring project management fundamentals, we'll leverage Kanban and Planner to simplify planning. With Power BI, we'll generate insightful reports to demonstrate progress. By workshop's end, you'll have the knowledge to maximize Teams and SharePoint for project management using only built-in Microsoft 365 capabilities

    Alison W project co-ordinator, ascona group

    "I enjoyed the session and I plan to create my own SharePoint project site"

    "I enjoyed the session and I plan to create my own SharePoint project site, using the tips provided by the presenter. It will be Version 1.2 as my SharePoint is very basic and I love the fact that it provides a high level view of the all the content and I look forward to the feedback provided by the exec team."

    Bonuses Included:

    • The Ultimate Guide To Setting Up Teams & SharePoint For Project Management Workbook: Downloadable PDF taking you through all the main areas covered in the workshop for you to takeaway and refer back to as and when you need it.
    • Guide to Creating a RAID Log: Downloadable PDF giving you a quick reference guide on how to create a RAID (Risk, Issues, Assumptions, and Dependencies) log using Microsoft Lists.
    • Project Site Start-up and Wind-down Checklisks: These 2 downloadable PDF document provide you with a checklist of all the aspects you need to cover in when setting up your project site, and then a checklist for all archive and close down considerations once your project is over.
    • Power BI basics for Project Reporting Workbook: This Downloadable PDF gives a quick introduction into what Power BI is, it’s licensing, how it
      works and how you, as a casual Power BI user (without a pro license) can leverage
      it’s capabilities for quick project insights.
    • Project Site Start-up and Wind-down Checklisks: These 2 downloadable PDF document provide you with a checklist of all the aspects you need to cover in when setting up your project site, and then a checklist for all archive and close down considerations once your project is over.

    Bonus "How to" Videos:

    Alongside the main workshop recordings there are also 9 bonus quick fire how to videos to help you get going quickly with your project hub setup covering how to:

    • Create a Planner board in Teams.
    • Embed the Planner to a SharePoint site.
    • Add a group calendar to a SharePoint site.
    • Create and Excel workbook from within Teams.
    • Adding and Excel workbook as a Tab in Teams.
    • Embed Excel into a SharePoint site.
    • Adding budget tracker graphs from MS list data into a SharePoint site.
    • Send emails when planner tasks are complete, using Power Automate.
    • Add a workflow in Teams from a template.

    This training includes:

    • 4.5+ hours of training
    • Access to the Collab365 Academy
    • Workshop Resources
    • Watch on Desktop or Mobile

    Thoughts from the Collab365 Team:

    "You rarely need to pay for extra 3rd party tools to meet your general business and project management needs" 

    As a long time Project Manager who has generally worked in Microsoft technologies and has always been a user of Microsoft technologies, my experience has taught me two things:

    • Firstly, 3rd party tools rarely fix your problems with process or project management. People, process and effective Project Management do that!
    • Secondly, in the main, the things you like about the 3rd Party tools can be achieved using the Microsoft 365 tools you already have and with no extra cost. Sometimes all you need is creative thinking, guidance and a nudge in the right direction.

    You may not realise it, but you don't have to be a Developer or technical person to create a great project management environment using Teams, SharePoint and Microsoft 365. These tools you already have can do so much more than just meetings, chat and file storage.

    Lynzie Cotton is an ex-NHS clinician with expertise in information governance, risk management and training. Her business specialises in AGILE FOR BUSINESS project management training, and she is a Microsoft 365 Teams Administrator Associate. She helps businesses re-configure their MS Teams environment.

    In this workshop, she will take you on a journey to setting up and using SharePoint and Teams for Project Management.

    Meet your workshop host:

    Lynzie Cotton, Fantastic Thinking Company

    Lynzie Cotton, Fantastic Thinking Company

    I am passionate about learning!

    My first degree was in English Literature and History, which I followed up with further qualifications in Applied Women's Studies and then Health Studies. In my previous roles as a registered clinician prior to forming The Fantastic Thinking Company Limited, I was a team leader responsible for the ongoing training and development of healthcare professionals with a focus on human factors, communication, situational awareness, risk and emergency drills.

    My background gives me a unique insight into the ongoing development and delivery of practical training courses and what is needed to support learners when they are back in their day-to-day working environment. I am constantly looking for ways to make what TFTC does more engaging and effective for our learners; from toolkit development to card decks to the use of light and sound in the learning environment… If it helps people learn and quickly embed new skills, I want to know about it.

    In my spare time, you will often find me with my head inside several books, out on a run or in a yoga pose when I'm not exploring my new found passion for chess!

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