I confess that I’m old enough to have used such a typewriter to get my papers done in college.  But perhaps that helps make it still a bit of a thrill to see my words in print.  This week, the PMWorld Journal had an article I’d written called Is the era of the Project Management Office at an end? Even if you don’t find my article that interesting, there is much more for project managers…

You would think it would be easy.  After all, timesheets mostly look all the same don’t they? Well, that’s often true but the front end of the timesheet isn’t the challenge.  Mostly timesheets look like a grid and you enter hours or some value in columns and rows.  It’s once that data has arrived into the timesheet that it becomes more challenging.  A timesheet might be used by an end user for 5 or 10…

I was delighted to be interviewed once again by CEO/CFO magazine. I last talked to them about a year ago so our focus was on what we’ve accomplished at HMS Software in the last year. I talked about our recent release 8.4 of TimeControl and the market reception of our new TimeControl Project. You can read the interview in its entirety at: www.ceocfointerviews.com/hmssoftware0723.html.

I’m very excited to be in Dallas this week to speak in person at the 15th Annual University of Texas Dallas Project Management Symposium. This is a great event every year and I couldn’t be happier to have been asked to speak. My topic is: Is the Era of the Project Management Office at an End?  Which I’ll be presenting on Tuesday, May 23rd. If you will there, please say hi!

When I started in the project management industry in 1984 the concept of a baseline was nothing new.  Indeed, it was a critical element of the first major client deployment of project management software that got my business and my career underway. Even in 1984 baselines were not a big favorite of those in project management.  It was something over the years that I continued to promote.   These days we hear less and less…