We’ll be making a trip to Dallas this year and spending some time with the PMI community. Let us know if you’ll be there! @MSFTProject

Booth #301 will feature 8 kiosks and a theater filled with product demos and the experts from our amazing Partner Network. Booth #700 will offer hands-on labs continuing our success from PMI GC 2010, so be sure to sign up when you arrive to guarantee your spot. Microsoft is also giving out USB keys to all of our visitors and special prizes including the chance to win a free pass to Project Conference 2012 in Phoenix, AZ! Finally, please join us for three presentations at the product theater:

1. October 24th at 3:45 PM, Leveraging Project 2010 with Office 365 for Project Management Success with Dux Raymond Sy (Innovative-e, Inc.)
2. October 25th at 12:30 PM, Quickly Automate Microsoft Project Server 2010 Governance Workflows with Ben Chamberlain (UMT)
3. October 25th at 3:45 PM, Making Life Simple for Small and Mid-sized PMOs: A Pre-Configured Microsoft Project & Project Server 2010 Solution with Greg Bailey and Tad Haas (SharkPro Software)

PMI^® Global Congress 2011—North America
October 22–25 2011
Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center
Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Hope to see you there!

Get a head start and a chance to win some great prizes (more info to come) by registering for Project Conference 2012 now! 

I get questions on templates fairly often so I wanted to do a quick post pointing to a previous post we did on this topic.

Essentially, if you are new to Project or starting a project and want to see a generic plan for how others broke down the work, check out a Project template.

To access templates in Project 2010, go to File – New – Office.com Templates section. In Project 2007, go to File – New and in the New Project pane either select On Computer or Templates on Office Online.

Now here’s where you come in…

We are always looking to add more templates and wanted to get feedback from you. What templates should we add?

You can either post comments directly to this blog (note they won’t show up right away) or you can send me your thoughts by emailing projrep@microsoft.com

And here’s some template trivia for you:

• Our most popular template is the Project Management Plan
• My personal favorite template is the Wine Tasting Fundraiser since two tasks actually involve drinking wine. Sounds like a great time to use a recurring task.