When project management software got started, resource-leveling was the ultimate end-goal. Has it disappeared? Back in the day… I seem to start almost every article lately with that expression. It may be particularly important for this one. Back in the day, when I first entered the project management software industry in the early 1980s, talk of resource leveling algorithms was all the rage. Some very clever people, many of whom I was fortunate enough to…
I’m very proud to have been named a top 10 Icon Leader of 2024 by Industry Chronicle Magazine. It’s no doubt because of the 40 year anniversary of HMS Software which I lead and the 30 year anniversary of the TimeControl timesheet system we created to which we owe so much of our success. The award is meaningless without acknowledging that any leader isn’t a leader unless he or she has a team to lead. …
I’m quite flattered that Business Talk Magazine has elected to name me one of their Influential Business Leaders of 2024. I had mentioned the website for this magazine a while back but this week, the November 2024 edition was released including the entire article. As great as that is, I also got this quite nifty certificate which, you can be sure I will have framed and mounted in the office. My thanks to Business Talk…
Over the years I’ve been interviewed in the media a number of times. Sometimes it’s very simple, sometimes more involved. I will be making more of an effort to get all these media connections here onto the EPM Guidance blog. Here is the latest. I was recently interviewed on the XRaised podcast and got to talk about the 40 years of leading HMS Software and the remarkable 30 year history of TimeControl. You can see…
I was recently interviewed by Business Talk Magazine about the 40 years leading HMS Software, and making it into a leading publisher of project management and project timekeeping systems. It was fun to describe the evolution of TimeControl over 30 years from version 1.0 in 1994 to the soon-to-be released version 8.6. You can read the article in its entirety at: businesstalkmagazine.com/interviews/chris-vandersluis-helping-companies-in-raising-the-bar-for-project-management.
