Dig Your Well Before You

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Dig Your Well Before Youre Thirsty

• Sam Brooks
• www.sambrooks.com

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Agenda

• Introduction
• Roles
• Required Skills
• Opportunities

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Current Roles

• Project Team Member
• Project Manager
• Consultant
• Project Management
• Project Management Systems

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Where is your opportunity to automate?

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Required Skills

• CPM
• MSProject
• SQL Server/MSDE
• RDBMS

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For any Future Version

• Focus on
• Publishing to the Web
• IIS
• Visual Studio/ASP
• VBScript
• Component development
• MTS
• Windows 2000, Active Directory XML

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MSDN

• Visit MSDN Online at msdn.microsoft.com
• Register for the MSDN Flash email newsletter at
  msdn.microsoft.com/resources/msdnflash.asp
• Join the MSDN Online Membership at
  msdn.microsoft.com/community
• Become an MSDN CD Subscriber at
  msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions

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Opportunities

• Training
• End user, VBA and three-tier web development
• Project Management Consulting
• Project planning and scheduling
• Team-based use
• Information Systems Consulting
• Web applications
• Time accounting systems

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Call To Action

• Build great project management solutions with MS
  Project
• Develop skills now to leverage future releases of
  not onlyMS Project but
• Windows
• SQL Server
• IIS/Web

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More Resources

• msdn.microsoft.com
• msdn.microsoft.com/osig/win2000
• msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/win2000
• www.microsoft.com/dna
• msdn.microsoft.com/xml/

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Where do you want to go today?