Microsoft has just unveiled the beta of Project 2010 and Project Server 2010. Here are some details and links to get access.
These days you’ve got to do more than just buy enterprise project management software if you want enterprise project management. Generating a business culture that can take advantage of such tools is by far more challenging and by far more important. Here are some thoughts on creating an environment for enterprise project management
Just having good project management techniques is not enough. How will you sell your great process to management?
When your job is building the elements of construction are usually quite well known. When you’re building software however, everything you’re building with from the foundation materials to the tools themselves are changing while you construct. What hope is there for project management if this is so?
For organizations that are all about their hierarchical organization, projectizing the business can be the fastest path to more efficiency.
Deploying Project Server isn’t just deploying one product. That’s why Microsoft refers to it as the Microsoft EPM Solution. There’s a whole stack of technology working in layers in the background. How will this chagne in 2010 and how can the stack be tamed?
Simon Moore’s book on Strategic Project Portfolio Management is finally out. I got to see an advanced copy and was delighted to put my remarks on the jacket.
Should you integrate systems intimately together or create an interface between them and leave them to work more independently? Integrate or Interface?