Most articles here talk about the strategic intent of enterprise timesheet and enterprise project management systems. But, not doing your homework on the operational side of the house can cause lots of mischief after a system has been implemented. Here are some of the best practices on enterprise systems we’ve encountered over the last few years.
It’s finally been announced. The next Microsoft Project Conference will be March 19 to 22 in Phoenix, AZ. Details can be found on the Microsoft Project Conference site at: www.msprojectconference.com.
Dilbert shows that accounting from a project manager and an accountant perspective is a very different experience!
All too often project managers working on an EPM deployment get enthralled by their ability to do something and forget to ask “Should I do it?”.
Gotta love Dilbert when he’s talking about project management. It’s a lesson in when not to complain about a project!
I had the opportunity to be interviewed on my career and my views of the project management industry recently. Samir Penkar runs the Future of Project Management site at futureofprojectmanagement.com You’ll find the interview on the site just look for A few Key Decisions to take a look. It’s great to talk to others in the industry about trends and where things have been, where they are and where they’re headed in the coming years.
I was working with a large Canadian company recently, helping with their enterprise project management processes. As part of my work, I got to watch while a project control officer prepared a report for the Chief Financial Officer. It was a work of art. First data was grouped together from multiple projects in the desktop version of a popular project management system. That data was copied and then pasted into a massive Excel spreadsheet as…
HMS has announced some changes to their free TimeControl timesheet Trial site that will make trying the TimeControl timesheet system that much easier. First of all, the dashboard on the main page has been updated to show some readily accessible online learning resources such as the TimeControl Online Learning Center. Also, data in the free trial has been updated to make the flow of trying the system once new users log in more intuitive. The…
Over at my firm, HMS, there’s a great case study on the use of TimeControl at EXFO. EXFO has been a TimeControl client since 1999 and recently they were gracious enough to allow us to interview them and do a case study on their use of TimeControl. EXFO wasn’t a publicly traded company when we first sold them TimeControl but they sure are now. The company has expanded enormously since our first visit there years…