Do you really need to know how many hours were spent on a project or is a rough estimate good enough? What difference does it really make anyway? To some organizations, it may not be important to know when a project will be completed but to most this information is critical. Resource forecasting, operational transitions…
When our CIO, Kris Athey, and I co-founded QuantumPM in Kris’s basement back in 2000, we had a clear vision: to help companies extract value from their investment in project-focused efforts. We knew that companies invested great amounts of money in projects but they did not often receive the return on their investments that they…
Ah, the good-old eighties. The decade that gave us Tom Cruise dancing in his underwear, power ballads by Journey, and the emergence of the data warehouse. That’s right, the data warehouse! More than 30 years ago, the birth of the data warehouse allowed business leaders to adopt a set of techniques and technologies aimed at…
Software’s Ability to Play Nice with Others Saves Time, Reduces Errors and Increases Profits In a perfect world, all of your business software – CRMs, HR systems, financial systems, etc. – would integrate well with each other, allowing you to automatically extract, consolidate and report on pertinent data for the purpose of better decision-making. This…
Cloud computing appears to be the direction for thousands of organizations with greatly increasing growth rates. In fact, the 2015 anticipated spending for end users is expected to be more than $180 billion, according to Gartner, a leading IT analyst group. I wouldn’t be surprised if that number turns out to be a low estimate once…
Its human nature to more easily retain lessons learned from error or poor judgment than from success. However, the key to applying the lesson to future projects is to self-reflect on what went wrong and adapt the principle to the new situation. I have learned the hard way not to blindly agree to the scope,…
Simplify the way you work. This has been QuantumPM’s tag line for many years and we absolutely believe in it. Our Project Management consultants want to offer you a better way to start 2015. Here are some ideas on how to get a fresh start on your projects and everything else you do at work? Laurie’s thoughts: Organizing…