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.
I was delighted to be interviewed once again by Starter Story to talk about HMS and TimeControl This was a one-year follow up from a previous review of HMS and TimeControl and features our progress since the original interview. You can read it at your leisure at: fhttps://www.starterstory.com/stories/hms-a59aae5d-f599-488f-9e71-230aa9487ce.
I confess that I’m old enough to have used such a typewriter to get my papers done in college. But perhaps that helps make it still a bit of a thrill to see my words in print. This week, the PMWorld Journal had an article I’d written called Is the era of the Project Management Office at an end? Even if you don’t find my article that interesting, there is much more for project managers…
You would think it would be easy. After all, timesheets mostly look all the same don’t they? Well, that’s often true but the front end of the timesheet isn’t the challenge. Mostly timesheets look like a grid and you enter hours or some value in columns and rows. It’s once that data has arrived into the timesheet that it becomes more challenging. A timesheet might be used by an end user for 5 or 10…
