APM Knowledgeshare June 2011 – turning theory into practice

For the third year running APM are holding their popular Knowledgeshare event in June 2011. Knowledgeshare 2011 is an excellent opportunity to discover the pioneering work of the 12 APM Specific Interest Groups and experience many different disciplines within project management and also to network with many project professionals. This year the event will be [...]

Microsoft Project 2010 – Top 10 Features & Benefits

What’s New—Top Features Microsoft® Project Professional 2010 is a project managers software that gives project managers a new and easier way to manage wide range of projects and programs. With all of the new updates and visual enhancements of Project Standard 2010, Project Professional 2010 delivers more with at-a-glance resource management and team collaboration tools [...]

Clarizen Closes $12M in Growth Funding, Adds Opus Capital’s Dan Avida to Board of Directors

Investment will fuel further global expansion and drive demand for work execution software beyond traditional project management Hod Hasharon, Israel. April 28, 2011 – Clarizen, the award-winning provider of work execution software  today announced that it has secured $12M in venture funding led by Opus Capital Ventures. Existing Clarizen investors, Benchmark Capital, Carmel Ventures and [...]

PowerSteering Software Introduces Business-Driven PPM

PowerSteering Software, the leading provider of project & portfolio management (PPM) solutions, today announced the introduction of Business-Driven PPM to help organizations accelerate results in IT and beyond. PowerSteering’s business-driven approach focuses PPM on achieving better results from the initiatives that have a direct impact on business performance. Too often conventional PPM deployments fail to [...]

Solution Q Launches Cloud Version of Eclipse Project Portfolio Management Software

The latest release of Eclipse Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software will be launched on April 27, 2011. Eclipse PPM has been rebuilt with the latest web development tools to ensure that end users find it easy to use while decision makers receive real value from the dashboards. Eclipse PPM helps organizations with improved project intake, [...]

PMXPO – Virtual Project Management Conference

Register today for gantthead’s free PMXPO 2011 gantthead is once again excited to bring you our annual virtual conference and exhibition on Thursday, May 19, 2011. It’s your opportunity to learn, network, earn PDUs and gain valuable knowledge all from the comfort of your home, office-or home office.With today’s tight budgets, PMXPO 2011 is a [...]

Topshop owner Arcadia adopts cloud-based project management

Clothing retailer Arcadia Group has signed a deal with CA for an on-demand software service to support its IT and e-commerce projects. The group, which owns the Topshop, Miss Selfridge, Burton, Topman, Wallis, Evans, Dorothy Perkins and Outfit brands, is using the CA Clarity Project & Portfolio Manager On-Demand service. The service provides users with [...]

Pragmatic Development

A carefully selected set of practices that match an IT organization’s needs is better than using one methodology exclusively In many IT organizations, there is one true “religion” that defines how projects are undertaken and managed. The methodology of the day is faithfully adhered to and nonbelievers are pressured to convert. A given IT religion [...]

Down To Business: IT’s Lords Of Discipline

Many business technology organizations still have a long way to go when it comes to project and portfolio management and functioning like a well-oiled machine. By Rob Preston InformationWeek April 23, 2011 00:00 AM Karen Garcia’s experience speaks to what’s going well and not so well with IT project and portfolio management. A former programmer [...]

Deltek Partners with LogiKal

Deltek Partners with LogiKal to Deliver Enterprise Project Management Solutions to the European Marketplace LONDON – April 21, 2011 – Deltek, Inc. (Nasdaq: PROJ) today announced it will partner with LogiKal, a specialist project management consultancy, to deliver its Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solutions to companies in the UK and throughout Europe. LogiKal provides its [...]

Head of Programme Management & IT

Recruiter: New Frontiers Posted:20 April 2011 Ref: EK26841 Contact: Elena Ktori Location: City of London Sector: Travel Management Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Permanent Salary: Market Rate Apply now Further information Head of Programme Management & IT This well known and highly regarded travel company who work extensively within the retail sector is seeking a [...]

Meggitt integrates Microsoft Project Server with SAP via TPG PSLink

TPG The Project Group UK to deliver a Microsoft Enterprise Project Management System with SAP integration 19. April 2011 , Wakefield West, Yorkshire, UK: TPG The Project Group, the world’s leading integrator of SAP and Microsoft Project Server, has been selected by Meggitt Sensing Systems to implement a Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solution and [...]

Oracle announce PeopleSoft Project and Primavera P6 EPPM integration

Oracle has announced general availability of the PeopleSoft Projects and Primavera P6 EPPM (enterprise project portfolio management) integration. Said to increase productivity and improve operations for PeopleSoft ERP users, the combined suite is designed to help organisations with projects by enabling them to be delivered on-time and to-budget. Paco Aubrejuan, Oracle’s group vice president and [...]

Project Management: Five traits of ‘Transformational’ PMOs

As companies begin to re-invest in capital projects post recession, project management offices (PMOs) need to gear up to facilitate these new plans. But that doesn’t mean they need to adopt more methodology, documentation and process. In fact, many PMOs would be better served by taking a leaner approach to project management, according to a [...]

Scope Creep in Programme Management

This article has been written by Richard Veryard and is an expanded extract from his book Component-Based Business which is available from Amazon Copyright Richard Veryard, 2001. All rights reserved. Introduction You must know the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack and mother poor, cow to market, Jack swaps cow for five beans, mother [...]

Program Planning and Control

Summary The project management software industry is drifting into the use of the inappropriate consolidation model, for the scheduling of a programme of projects. This model derives normally from the tools that are available, not from the requirement. This model has some significant problems which are outlined below along with an alternative model. Introduction Project [...]

Programme and Project Management Definitions

It is important to recognise that the terms in programme management are loose and have not yet settled down. These short notes provide five definitions of programme management. The fact that there are five similar but different definitions tells you much about the start of the art. These definitions will help you understand which bits [...]

Project Initiation – a consultancy approach

Paper by Dr Glenn Strange Project initiation may be defined as the process of defining planned deliverables and anticipation of those actions needed in order to complete a project. It will involve the identification of activities, tasks and a sequence in a project schedule, including both milestones and deadlines. In addition, it involves estimating those [...]

Programme Management in IBM

This article offers an overview of Programme Management as developed for IBM United Kingdom Limited Project Management Consultancy Services Division. This developed in association with MITP release 4 ,the IBM project management method. Why: the need for Programme Management Programme Management is the co-ordinated management of a portfolio of projects to achieve a set of [...]

Programme Management – The New Technique

Article as appeared in Automotive Engineer July 1998 A New management technique has grown out of project management to help with developments such as the introduction of new vehicles. Eric Russell explains Project mismanagement can incur the largest single cost in a development programme. Tackling the problem needs better planning performance, and to do this [...]

Manage the Transfer

Programme management can be used to assist in the identification of legacy systems. Glenn Strange of Logica tells us how placing them into a structured environment can provide improved levels of control to facilitate change management. Legacy systems are defined as those systems that cannot be ‘switched off’ because they are mission-critical to the successful [...]