It’s the dreaded 999 code that can turn a project upside down. The miscellaneous charge code into which all bad hours go can be the source of a great deal of upset and difficulty a project. In the timesheet business that we live in at HMS, we’ve see clients who have an unhealthy attachment to the 999 charge code. When you just don’t know where those hours should go or you just don’t want to…
It’s an old joke that is typically attributed to the people of the State of Maine in the US. A visitor stops to ask an old timer for directions and says “I need to go to this place.” The old-timer resident thinks for a moment and then says, “Oh sure. That place. I know that place. You can’t get there from here.” The joke almost always gets a laugh but I was reminded of it…
It wasn’t that long ago that the world was a much bigger place. In the olden days (about 10 years ago) we didn’t have to think too much about the real-time impact of global project teams. The world just isn’t that big anymore. Collaboration challenges Modern communications technology means that every team member probably has a mobile phone and the Internet is available virtually everywhere (well, almost) and the collaboration tools for video conferencing and…