What is a System of Record? A system of record (SOR) is an authoritative source of business data. Systems of Record can contain authoritative data on customers, employees, products, suppliers or other assets and entities related to everyday business processes. The first use of the term appears to be by the US Social Security Administration in the 1930’s describing manual payroll records but the concept of keeping source records goes back thousands of years. With…
I’m delighted to find myself in the pages of the February edition of CIO Bulletin Magazine for our work with TimeControl. The article is entitled “Four Decades of Turning Time into Trust: How HMS Software’s TimeControl® Empowers Global Enterprises with Exceptional Accuracy, Efficiency, and Intelligence“. Although I’m spoken about and quoted in the article, the credit for everything in it really belongs to every member of the TimeControl team.
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I’ve been waiting ages to post about this. This week, my wife, Shellie Vandersluis published her first book. It is called Naming Risk, Changing Culture: Making Uncertainty Less Awkward, One Team at a Time. I may have been in the project management industry a bit longer, but Shellie has some remarkable credentials in this area. She is both a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) through the Project Management Institute. The…
A number of years ago (ok, it was way back in 2011) I got to co-deliver a paper at the Oracle Application Users Group called “Stop the Madness”. The paper was about how organizations who use Oracle Projects deploy multiple timesheets and we showed how our TimeControl product could avoid that. Obviously no one makes a plan to deploy multiple timesheets and that still happens but lately I’ve been thinking about all the other ways…
Following my recent inclusion in the Marquis Who’s Who Director, I’ve been informed that they have included me also in their Top Professionals Program. The citation from their site says “Chris Vandersluis, co-founder and chief executive officer of HMS Software, has been recognized by Marquis Who’s Who Top Executives for dedication, achievements, and leadership in software technology.” I’m immensely flattered. Inclusion in the Who’s Who directory is really a testament to the team of people…
What does a feature cost? A lot of people would like to know but in the last 20 years or so, we have migrated away from the practice of budget and cost tracking for distinct features to the more Agile approach of 1) how will we make that feature and; 2) is it done yet? It’s a project management formula with the potential for enormous mischief. Let’s roll back the project management clock a bit…
I’ve just been told by the people at Marquis’ Who’s Who Directory that I have been listed there. I am humbled by the recognition. I can remember seeing the Who’s Who directory in my library at school in my teens. If you had told me then that I would one-day be listed among some of those other famous people, I would have laughed in disbelief. For those who may not know this directory, it has…
When project management software got started, resource-leveling was the ultimate end-goal. Has it disappeared? Back in the day… I seem to start almost every article lately with that expression. It may be particularly important for this one. Back in the day, when I first entered the project management software industry in the early 1980s, talk of resource leveling algorithms was all the rage. Some very clever people, many of whom I was fortunate enough to…
I’m very proud to have been named a top 10 Icon Leader of 2024 by Industry Chronicle Magazine. It’s no doubt because of the 40 year anniversary of HMS Software which I lead and the 30 year anniversary of the TimeControl timesheet system we created to which we owe so much of our success. The award is meaningless without acknowledging that any leader isn’t a leader unless he or she has a team to lead. …
I’m quite flattered that Business Talk Magazine has elected to name me one of their Influential Business Leaders of 2024. I had mentioned the website for this magazine a while back but this week, the November 2024 edition was released including the entire article. As great as that is, I also got this quite nifty certificate which, you can be sure I will have framed and mounted in the office. My thanks to Business Talk…
