The EPMGuidance website is about to undergo some changes. You’ll find a new look and feel starting today and over the next few days we’ll be adding more changes as well. The main page will have several elements of services and other elements of my life that are relevant to some of my clients and followers. The blog posts will still be only a click away and we are not removing a single line of…
Several years ago I worked directly the Microsoft Project Team as part of their Enterprise Project Management Partner Advisory Council. One topic that came up more than once during the 5 years I spent with the group was the impact of Excel on Project Management. At the time Microsoft estimated that over 30 million copies of Microsoft Project were in use somewhere around the world. Their own internal estimates were that over double that used…
Resource management is a subject that I lecture on often and, perhaps more interestingly, is a popular topic. You might think that after all these years of the promotion of project management practices and tools that resource management would be an old and tired subject but apparently not so much. What is it that has solving resource management challenges be so difficult? The first and most obvious answer is that we don’t all mean the…
I’ll be headed to Dallas tomorrow (May 17) to speak at the Dallas PMI Chapter’s Symposium. I’ll be talking about one of my favorite subjects, how to increase resource capacity without hiring. It’s always a pleasure to speak with people who have similar business challenges about how to overcome them and I learn something new every time I get to engage in one of these dialogs. Aside from my speaking opportunities, there are more articles…
It’s been a busy time around here. Aside from a may product release at HMS as we launched TimeControl 7.3, I’ve had some other activities underway. This week I was delighted to be able to do a talk with the ProjectSummit*Business Analyst World conference in Orlando. I do some volunteer time with the advisory board of the PW*BA conference. I’ve been associated to ProjectWorld since the very first conference ever in Toronto over 20 years…
