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…
It’s been a crazily busy time at HMS the last few weeks. We’ve welcome a wave of new clients, started big initiatives with some existing clients and of course there’s no stop to the regular work load. Amongst our biggest news is the release of TimeControl 6.7. I had always known that this last wave of removing ActiveX components from TimeControl would be the most challenging. There were so many things under the surface that…
I just finished a great week at Collaborate14, the Orace Application Users Group conference where I was asked to speak about the Benefits of the As-Built Schedule. Despite being in the very last speaking slot of the conference in the Primavera track, there were a number of die-hard fans who attended. For those who were there or those who missed the conference, the slides can be downloaded at: www.epmguidance.com/resources/The_As-Built_Schedule.pdf. The Excel spreadsheet I used for…
Yes, TimeControl is no longer a teenager! It’s HMS Software’s 30th Anniversary (We’re now 30-something) and TimeControl is now 20. HMS Software was founded in 1984 and we’ll be celebrating all year with contests, give-aways and images from our ancient past and just to get things started, here’s something nostalgic. Yes, this is a video of TimeControl 1.0.1, the first version of TimeControl released to market in January of 1994. Click the image on the…