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 Duration 7 hours

Course Outline

  • Day 1: Optimizing Project Work with Copilot Agents
    • Project Work in Microsoft 365
      • Overview of Teams, Planner, Lists, Loop, and SharePoint as integrated project environments
      • Identifying current areas where Copilot enhances project workflows
      • Exploring agents within Teams and Planner, subject to tenant activation settings
      • Exercise: Analyze personal project routines to identify the three most significant time-consuming activities.
    • Status Reporting and Updates
      • Aggregating status information from emails, chats, meetings, and lists
      • Establishing a consistent status reporting template
      • Automatically highlighting gaps and unresolved issues
      • Exercise: Generate a status report, including open items, using data from a project folder and two meeting records.
    • Meeting Management and Task Execution
      • Managing agendas, notes, and action items using the meeting agent
      • Seamlessly transferring meeting tasks into Planner
      • Streamlining follow-up processes to eliminate manual chasing
      • Exercise: Plan a project meeting, execute follow-ups, and create corresponding tasks in Planner.
    • Building a Project Knowledge Agent
      • Creating a knowledge base from project documents, lessons learned, and contact directories
      • Configuring the Agent Builder with specific instructions and constraints
      • Facilitating onboarding for new project team members
      • Exercise: Develop a project-specific knowledge agent and validate it by testing five common queries.
    • Early Risk Identification
      • Analyzing task dependencies and overdue items
      • Identifying warning signals for critical path activities
      • Understanding the limitations of predictive analytics
      • Exercise: Run a delay risk analysis on a task list and interpret the findings.
    • Mini Hackathon and Presentation
      • Small groups select a real-world project challenge to address
      • Developing a solution concept using Microsoft 365 and Copilot
      • Creating a mock-up and delivering a concise pitch
      • Exercise: Design and present a status dashboard, risk monitoring tool, or knowledge assistant in small groups.
    • Outcome: Each participant will have produced a status report, validated a project knowledge agent, and presented a mock-up solution for a real project challenge.

Requirements

  • A Microsoft 365 Copilot license, along with access to Teams, Planner, and SharePoint. Participants should also have access to a running or completed project with available documentation.
  • No programming knowledge is required.

Target Audience

  • Project managers, PMO staff, team assistants, and project members working within Microsoft 365 using Teams, Planner, Lists, and SharePoint.

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