I’d have missed it frankly because it’s not a massive announcement but I confess I was tickled pink to see HMS Software on page 26 of the July/August issue of Oracle Magazine announcing the naming of HMS Software as a Gold Partner in the Oracle Partner Network. The magazine is also online and you can see our 15 minutes of fame in the July/August Oracle Partner News segment on the Oracle website.
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Everything old it seems is new again. One of the earliest programmatic approaches to project scheduling was invented in the heyday of the Cold War. Propelled by inter service rivalries on one side and by the threat of Soviets in the arms race on the other, PERT was born. The Program Evaluation & Review Technique looked beyond a simple Critical Path Methodology (CPM) analysis to introduce the notion of risk into the project schedule. The…
One of the first things I need to do whenever I go into a company to talk about Enterprise Project Management (EPM) is to get some kind of a consensus of what it means. I can hear some of you laughing. “Surely after all this time,” you’re saying, “we have a common understanding of such a basic term in the project management industry.” No, I’m afraid not. It’s perhaps remarkable in an age when we…