Friday, February 17, 2012

Webinar: 10 hottest Tips for sustaining High Resource Utilization

One of the most challenging aspects of running a service organization is managing the utilization of people. Join us for a webinar on March 8 to learn the 10 Hottest tips for sustaining High Resource Utilization. Space is limited. Reserve your Webinar seat now at: Registration Page

Monday, November 28, 2011

PDWare to Sponsor Resource Planning Summit 2012

The Resource Planning Summit for 2012 has just been announced. All PDWare customers should attend the conference. Executives, line / functional managers, project managers, and portfolio managers from other companies would benefit greatly from attending.

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Improving Performance With Dynamic Capacity Management

Our own Phil Wolf, PDWare's SVP Enterprise Products, spoke with Food Manufacturing, MBT's sister publication, about how project managers and resource planners can best manage resources to maximize productivity.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

PDWare Announces Version 5.2 of iTeam Software

We are excited to announced the availability of iTeam 5.2, the latest version of our Web application product. The new version includes significantly enhanced functionality that allows users to address the operational challenges of managing people and projects in the workplace.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Pdware Release 5 for PPM

Today we're pleased to release PDWare Project Portfolio Management Framework version 5.

The PDWare™ PPM framework supports the complete project portfolio lifecycle with an emphasis on resource planning. The philosophy is that resource control ultimately drives portfolio productivity. With resource planning in place, the functions and flexibility of the project portfolio management system modules deliver powerful executive analysis. All PDWare™ modules are integrated in an environment that promotes accuracy and credibility of data.

Monday, March 9, 2009

White Paper: Learn from your Demand Estimates and Achieve Portfolio Excellence

Product development organizations consistently struggle to develop reusable metrics from their resource estimating and work-effort tracking processes. The purpose of this white paper is to outline an achievable approach that can be applied to typical business situations.
The promise of Demand Management has always been the ability to document actual work against a legitimate living forecast, and eventually using that performance history to improve operational forecasting over time. This idea of validating historical estimates and using the findings to improve the next time around is fairly straight-forward and is critical to optimizing the product delivery process.  But in truth, most companies struggle to get any consistency from this process.

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Resource Management: Where enterprise project management systems fails

As Product Development organizations rush to board the enterprise project management bandwagon, they dream of reaching the Holy Grail: operational excellence and business growth. But what more and more companies have found recently is that they are in for a rough
ride that typically does not reach its promised destination. This article includes a Motorola case study that will explore why enterprise project management systems have failed to deliver portfolio achievability through effective resource planning and management.