Meeting the Challenge of Effective Communication for PPM in a Technical World Unless you are a hermit, being a good communicator has to be at the top of your list of skills to manage. The more people you need to communicate with, the more technology that is involved, the trickier it becomes. It is a…
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Miscommunication is easy; it happens every day in all walks of life and across all geographic boundaries. It complicates every aspect of life and the implications vary from simple, correctable misunderstandings to global crises. This is true of human communication and systems as well. If you work in the Project Portfolio Management World and lead…
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So you’re back to work after the holidays and your inbox is overflowing, you’re not sure where to start or what your co-workers have already taken care of. Worse yet, this is all a repeat of last year’s routine. There simply has to be a more productive way to get work done. How about starting…
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How do you take mountains of raw data and turn it into actionable business intelligence? Is there a way to do this without legions of staff and thousands of spreadsheets? And more important, how do you make sure the data is accurate and available when its needed? In this whitepaper we define the problem and outline…
DetailsDo 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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