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…
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…
It’s been a busy but great 4 weeks. First, we received a couple of fabulous testimonials at HMS from our clients. ASL Environmental Sciences sent the first one. They’re an Oceanographic specialist based in western Canada. Then another great letter comes in from ESI Inc. of Tennessee. Both are delighted clients and that makes our day around here. I got a chance to meet with the PMI Central Illinois Chapter and talk about Data Mining. …
Join HMS and Hard Dollar on February 12th for a free webinar showing the power of integrating TimeControl Industrial and HD PCM; bringing field data collection to project cost management.
Microsoft has published another article of mine on TechNet. This article is called “Cancelling your project without cancelling your career and will be of interest to both project managers and timesheet administrators as well, of course, to those managing stage gating processes, project management offices and project portfolios
We’ve just published another free solutions portal on the TimeControl.com website designed to share best practices on timesheet usage to all. The portal is free.
HMS has just released TimeControl Industrial version 6.4. This is a major upgrade to TimeControl Industrial and brings Industrial’s Field Data Collection functionality together with our great TimeControl 6 architecture..
Training for enterprise systems like TimeControl is never really complete because the organization adapts and evolves as it uses the software. Training for such systems is best done in layers or phases.
I will be in Toronto Ontario on Monday, May 14th to speak at ProjectWorld. The subject is: “Getting more resource capacity without spending more money”. See this post for location and registration information for ProjectWorld. Hope to see you there!
I’ve been doing some writing and the result is an all-new white paper which is available on the TimeControl.com website. The paper is entitled The Timesheet Approvals Challenge and shows how organizations end up selecting more than one timesheet despite themselves thanks to how the approvals functionality has been purpose-designed in most timesheets.