There are so many display formats to choose from that it’s sometimes confusing to select the right one. Yet choosing the right display for the right kind of data makes all the difference to how it’s interpreted. Putting the right project view in the right hands can change the way decisions are made.
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Microsoft unveils Project 2010 Beta
Microsoft has just unveiled the beta of Project 2010 and Project Server 2010. Here are some details and links to get access.
Creating an environment for project management
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
Selling Project Management to Management or… Why is this so hard?
Just having good project management techniques is not enough. How will you sell your great process to management?
Managing IT Projects in a Sea of Change
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?
Projectizing your business
For organizations that are all about their hierarchical organization, projectizing the business can be the fastest path to more efficiency.
Integrate or Interface?
Should you integrate systems intimately together or create an interface between them and leave them to work more independently? Integrate or Interface?
Biting off more than you can chew
Big organizations often take on big epm deployments. It’s an easy mistake to make. Just because an organization is large, doesn’t mean that the deployment of an enterprise project management system needs to scale up to match it. Too many organizations think too big when they get started on an epm deployment and bite off more than they can chew.
Critical Path… Not so critical?
Is the original premise of project management software still the driving force? Is the critical path calculation still what makes projects run? Perhaps the entire industry has moved on.
Third Party tools part of ERP Solution
You’d think that ERP systems would be the be-all and end-all of products. Why then are vendors like SAP and Oracle so keen to have 3rd party vendors on their list. The answer of course is that it’s quite common to integrate specific tools with these ERP beheamouths in order to create a complete solution.