My firm, HMS Software, has released a major new upgrade to the Industrial version of TimeControl. This product is an organizational timesheet designed to serve both back office and field personnel simultaneously. The TimeControl Industrial timesheet is ideally suited to heavy construction, offshore oil and gas or plant shutdown and turnaround situations. As a timesheet, it can aid both owners and contractors in being more efficient and capturing both the financial billing and costing information…
It’s one of the hottest topics in the project management industry today. We spend so much time thinking about how to do projects that we sometimes forget about whether we should do the projectds in the first place. Here’s a short article on Project Portfolio Management.
I’m working on the Return on Investment of Project Management this week and I’ve come across a fascinating reference to how expectations can have a remarkable effect. Freek Vermeulen notes that just the expectation of better performance seems to be able to deliver it – up to 6% worth! That’s serious money when you’re talking about project management improvements. If we add this to the well-documented Hawthorne Effect which I’ve written about here before which can improve…
Not every organization has a Chief Project Officer but it’s a movement that is gathering momentum. When the economy is challenging, organizations take a newfound look at how projects can be managed and it is perhaps no surprise that many large companies have decided this can be best done when there is a coordinated approach that starts at the top. This article looks at the benefits of having an executive in the boardroom who will champion the project management cause.
Over the years, one of the most challenging changes to the success of project management software has been the lack of training and training materials that are included in any deployment. I wrote about this time ago in an article entitled “Batteries not included”. Organizations used to allocate a portion of their implementation budget to training and, as the price of project management software has dropped to a fraction of it used to cost in…