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Project managers have long been using Excel for project management, but is it realistically still a good option? While the depth of the spreadsheet crunching capabilities is impressive, the solution is not supported with the kind of data insights and reporting that project managers today need. With the release of Office 2019, Microsoft has worked to update and improve some of Excel’s capabilities. Read More

If you work in project management, there’s one thing you know for certain: you can never know anything for certain. Project managers can never plan for every possible contingency. Effective project management requires leaving enough maneuverability in schedules to adapt to new developments, without abandoning all planning and structure entirely.

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Microsoft has recently announced a new vision for its popular project portfolio management (PPM) solution, Microsoft Project. In this post, we will look at what this new vision entails and explore the pros and cons of Microsoft Project in its new form.

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When it comes to project management, the concept of a centralized office that directs simultaneous projects is a comparatively recent evolution. At the turn of the millennium in fact, project management offices (PMOs) were rare. In recent years however, they’ve become the default for large companies running multiple projects to achieve efficient resource utilization in project management.

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Projects at the enterprise-level usually have a lot of moving parts. One result of this is that there are always opportunities for things to go wrong. Managing project expectations can be a difficult task, even for the most experienced project managers. Whether it’s deadlines, costs, or project outcomes, you need to define project expectations clearly and ensure that all key stakeholders agree on these before the project gets underway. This is much easier said than done. Read More

Every project begins with a single idea or goal, and the best of intentions. But as they progress, mistakes are made, communications break down, and deadlines and budgets change. It’s these problems that mean, even when projects are started for the right reasons, 55% of businesses experience project failure. In fact, 17% of large-scale IT projects go so badly that they threaten the very existence of the company. Read More

We talk at some length about why flexible project management is so important. This isn’t to say your projects can be managed on a whim—you need to provide the right degree of flexibility. Too little and things begin to spiral out of control—too much and you risk wasting valuable resources and going over budget. Read More

The ability to obtain, structure, and analyze resource management information is central to the success of the project management offices (PMO). In this blog, we outline three key challenges that PMO resource management software can help you deal with: Read More

Imagine the time savings your healthcare organization could achieve if pathology scans could be automatically assessed by a machine. Picture the cost savings if software could alert you to a health claim fraud. Or, think of the improved wellbeing of your patients if you could use risk scoring to highlight hazards to their health – and inform them of better lifestyle choices. Read More

Project managers deal with a wide range of challenges in their day-to-day efforts to complete projects on time to the level of quality required. Although some of these challenges come out of the blue, others just come with the territory, such as scope creep. Project managers must take this into account when planning their project strategies. Luckily, there are lots of tools that be used to help. In this blog, we explain how to prevent scope creep disaster using resource management software. Read More