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…