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.

HMS Software, the company I run and founded turns 40 this year.  If you had asked me back in 1984 if I thought the company would be around 40 years hence I’d have laughed.  I was in my mid 20s at the time.  The idea of anything lasting 40 years was mind boggling but here we are.  My own start in the project management software industry is probably a year or so older but HMS…

It’s always great to be interviewed to talk about HMS and TimeControl and how the company has evolved over the last 40 years. This time the interview can be found on TrepTalks where I talked to Sushant Misra for almost an hour about the business and the trends in the software and project management industries. You can hear the entire episode at: https://treptalks.com/interviews/chris-vandersluis-of-hms-software.