One of the most common requests I get in the project and portfolio mangement software industry is to help find a tool that will be different things for different people. There is so much of an organization somehow tied to the project management process that this is perhaps not a big surprise. Executives would love a simple dashboard but not just a dashboard that provides a pretty picture that they are then impotent to do…
Project management is only one challenge in managing a project with multiple projects. Everything we do for one project, we must consider among many. Which projects should get priority, which projects should get resources first, which projects are prerequisites for other projects. How do executives determine the priorities among projects and what happens when they won’t?
The Microsof Office Project Support blog is reporting an issue that has appeared for users of Project Server 2007, Service Pack 2 and its connectivity to Project Professional when trying to update the Enterprise Global settings. There is a fix in the pipeline which should see the light of day in August which we will report to you here. There is both a description of the problem and Microsoft’s suggested workaround. Description: The problem and…
After some time thinking about it, I’m changing the look and feel of the front page of the blog. Originally I’d envisaged a website where the blog would be a less prominent aspect of the entire site but as time moves forward, I can see that in fact searching for information on the blog will be easier if I just get on the horse in the direction it’s heading and that’s with the blog as…
You’d think that project management professionals within an organization would be the biggest asset in an enterprise project management deployment. Surprisingly, it’s not always so. Sometimes knowing how it used to work is a barrier to seeing the latest in methodology, technology and best practices.