HMS Software, the company I run and founded turns 40 this year. If you had asked me back in 1984 if I thought the company would be around 40 years hence I’d have laughed. I was in my mid 20s at the time. The idea of anything lasting 40 years was mind boggling but here we are. My own start in the project management software industry is probably a year or so older but HMS…
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…
It’s quite flattering to find myself featured in the October edition of the PM World Journal. This is a scholarly publication filled with the writings of people who have been in the project management world for some time and has always been a key source of information and education for me. The article is the result of my speaking engagement at the University of Texas Dallas this year at the Annual Dallas at the 14th…
I had a remarkable experience in Austin, Texas with my friend Nathan Latka and 500 of his closest Founder friends at the #founder500. The Founder500 was a remarkable conference where I was privileged to speak as one of the keynote speakers. This was an unexpectedly awesome collection of hundreds of founders of SaaS companies. Some were small, some were big but everyone had common experiences and challenges. It was quite unlike anything I’d ever been…
I’m delighted to be speaking on a couple of different topics at the Minnesota PMI Professional Development Days (PDD) this year. This is the first in-person meeting of the PDD for the PMI-MN in two years and I’m excited to be a part of it. I’ll be speaking about creating a hybrid environment in a session called “Bringing Agile, Project Management and Portfolio Management together” and then a second Symposium Day session called “The Perils…
I was delighted to be interviewed by Nathan Latka on his top entrepreneurs podcast. Nathan is a high-energy interviewer who is great to meet with but really wants you to know your numbers and be ready to be challenged. You’ll find the whole interview on Youtube at: https://youtu.be/QmmVu2GD0hA.
