Ok, it’s a strange title for a blog post but so is the circumstance. I’ll be in Scottsdale, AZ (A suburb of Phoenix) at the end of September for the Hard Dollar Conference. I’ll be co-presenting a paper with Erik Marthinsen, the President of BASEMETHOD of Calgary. We’re speaking on how to solve sub-contract management challenges by using a combination of Hard Dollar’s HD PCM and TimeControl Industrial. The Hard Dollar InEight Experience 2014 conference…
By: Chris Vandersluis I wrote an earlier version of this article for Microsoft’s TechNet. This update has been created for the EPMGuidance site. In project management circles it is common to talk about matrix management. Matrix management isn’t anything new. It has been a management standard in most high-tech organizations. The idea of matrix management came out of management thinking in the early 70s. J.R. Galbraith published an article talking about how to combine organizational…
Yes, it’s true. My firm, HMS is looking for a Software Engineer. Read this post to find out more or, email me at chris.vandersluis@gmail.com for more details.
I am delighted to see another of my articles in the “From the Trenches” column on Microsoft’s TechNet. I’ve been doing these pieces for the Microsoft Project technical area of the the TechNet website for a number of years and am very flattered that they continue to ask for them and, even better, publish them! The latest article is called Are we there yet? and describes my experiences with deploying enterprise systems like Microsoft Project…
The fourth edition of the AMA Handbook of Project Management has just hit bookshelves and I’m very proud to say that I am one of the collaborators. I have been in the handbook since it’s first release and have been privileged to write the chapter on Enterprise Project Management. As I’ve done for each edition, I’ve edited and updated the chapter to be more relevant to the evolving world of project management and rewrote sections…