Microsoft doesn’t do it every year but next year they will once again be holding a conference for Microsoft Project. This usually signals that Microsoft has a new version to show us and, yes, it’s fairly certain we’ll be hearing all about Project version 15 when the conference rolls around. The conference is March 19-22, 2012 in Phoenix. For registration information go to: www.msprojectconference.com Oh, and will I be there? You bet.
Dilbert knows all about negative lag. Here he is confronting an impossible schedule
HMS has launched TimeControlOnline, a Timesheet as a Service (TaaS) cloud-based hosted subscription version of the popular TimeControl timesheet system. Clients can now purchase TimeControl for on-premises installation or subscribe to it online.
Project Management Insights blog interviewed me about Real Time Project Management. You can read the complete interview on their blog.
Microsoft has released the long-awaited Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Project 2010 and Project Server 2010. Download details for the Service Pack and the recommended June 2011 Cumulative Update are included in this post.
HMS has released TimeControl 6.2. The new version includes numerous new features including TimeControl Mobile. System performance has also been vastly enhanced since the last version.
TimeControl is now available as a mobile interface. As of version 6.2, TimeControl will now include a mobile interface specifically designed for iPhones, Blackberry’s, Android and Windows 7 Mobile devices. The web-application requires no purchase of additional software and there is nothing to install or download. Users will simply point their smartphone’s browser to the special URL that is part of every TimeControl and they’ll see the new interface.
Microsoft has published another of my articles, this one on Enterprise Systems Best Practices. This article looks at some of the key success/failure criteria to any enterprise system including, of course, EPM Systems. Those factors include: finding a business owner, knowing what problem the system is supposed to solve, making sure it’s part of your enterprise technical architecture and implementing change management.
Many organizations deploy enterprise systems and many of these deployments generate tremendous efficiencies in the organization. However, some organizations get tempted to deploy more than one enterprise system at the same time and this can lead to a tremendous challenge or even failure of both systems. In some cases, the two systems are pushed into one massive project, in other cases, separate teams pull the company into different directions at the same time. This article looks at the particular challenge of doing more than one enterprise system deployment at a time.