In the EPM industry we tend to talk about Enterprise without much consideration that it may be considered differently by different people or at different times. Many people think of an enterprise as something that applies only to large multi-national publicly traded companies. Others might think of an enterprise as a broad collection of organizations or companies. This is one of the first questions I ask when speaking to an organization who is interested in…
I’ve been focusing a lot of my project management and timesheet conceptual energies lately on looking beyond what happens in each project task in a day and looking between them to everything else that happens in a day. That has led me to numerous subjects that I’ll talk about in the coming months. The project management industry has put enormous focus on being more efficient in task management over the last 6 or 7 decades. …
“We need to improve our resource management,” is a phrase I’ve often heard yet answer it requires finding out exactly what the person meant when they said it. When we look at the resource aspect of project management, there are multiple perspectives. I would put resource management loosely into three main categories: Can we do it? How do we do it? Who will do it? Let’s take a look at each of these in turn.…
It’s been some time since I attended the annual Microsoft Partner Conference now called Inspire. But this is the year! I will be at Inspire on July 15th and 16th and would be delighted to meet any of our HMS partners and alliance members. If you are going to be there, let me know here on the website or at: chris.vandersluis@hms.ca.
I’m looking forward to being back in Dallas next week. On Tuesday, May 21st, I will be speaking at the 13th Annual UT Dallas Project Management Symposium at the UT Dallas Campus. This is a big event and I’m delighted to have been asked to speak there. My topic is “Managing Resource Risk in an Uncertain World”. If you plan to attend the conference, please make sure to say hello.
