Deploying Project Server isn’t just deploying one product. That’s why Microsoft refers to it as the Microsoft EPM Solution. There’s a whole stack of technology working in layers in the background. How will this chagne in 2010 and how can the stack be tamed?
Simon Moore’s book on Strategic Project Portfolio Management is finally out. I got to see an advanced copy and was delighted to put my remarks on the jacket.
Should you integrate systems intimately together or create an interface between them and leave them to work more independently? Integrate or Interface?
Big organizations often take on big epm deployments. It’s an easy mistake to make. Just because an organization is large, doesn’t mean that the deployment of an enterprise project management system needs to scale up to match it. Too many organizations think too big when they get started on an epm deployment and bite off more than they can chew.
Is the original premise of project management software still the driving force? Is the critical path calculation still what makes projects run? Perhaps the entire industry has moved on.