Monday, May 7, 2012

Posted by  Baruch Gabo  at 19:05

PDWare DevLogs: Introducing PDWare Pulse

We have talked a lot about communicating the functionality of new and future features in the PDWare products. I'm happy to announce that we will finally deliver on our promise with our PDWare DevLogs series. In each post we will cover newly available or soon to be available feature we have been working on. We encourage you to comment and give us any feedback you might have. Yes, even the criticism.

PDWare Pulse was introduced during the Resource Planning Summit 2012, and is a new event notification feature available in PDWare iTeam v6.0 with Messenger. The idea for the development of PDWare Pulse came from our marketing department after surveying a lot of the current iTeam users. Most of you wanted to have a notification system that won't send out emails on every possible event (something you could do with PDWare Messenger) but inform the users of specific events from within iTeam. Another request was that a user should be able to control which notifications to enable/disable to avoid high right level users from being flooded with multiple events they don't always care about.

PDWare Pulse was designed using the current PDWare Messenger, our windows service based email notification engine, as the backend that generates and sends iTeam notifications to users.

Monday, May 7, 2012

Posted  at 15:50

PDMA Visions Issue 2, 2012 - PD Spotlight Article

PDware's CEO Peter Heinrich and SVP Phil Wolf are published in the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) journal Visions, Issue 2, 2012. 

Click here to read "Success is Possible if You Know the Resource and Skill Requirements for a Project Before It is Started".

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Posted by  Mike Berkowitz  at 14:28

Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit taking place May 21 – 23, 2012 in National Harbor, MD

Thinking about attending the upcoming Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit taking place May 21-23, 2012 in National Harbor, MD? The Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit 2012 is the premier gathering of program and portfolio management executives focused on improving how organizations select, implement and manage IT initiatives and services. The summit will give you the tools and insight to anticipate portfolio fluctuations and adapt programs in the face of shifting risks, as well as make the business case for IT investment.

PDWare is a sponsor of the Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

Posted by  Mike Berkowitz  at 11:28

10 Hottest Tips for Sustaining High Resource Utilization

PDWare's own Phil Wolf co-hosted this webinar with RTM Consulting on March 8.

One of the most challenging aspects of running a service organization is managing the utilization of people. While there are many important aspects of managing a service organization, managing utilization of human capital is fundamental to making a profit. Unfortunately, the majority of service organizations in the market today do not achieve their full potential when it comes to fully utilizing human capital.
   
The webinar was designed for those who need some simple and actionable ideas on how to effectively manage to achieve high utilization.

Click here to view the webinar

Monday, January 23, 2012

Posted by  Peter Heinrich  at 13:17

Proof: A Strong Resource Planning Process Contributes to PMO & Portfolio Productivity

When I saw Coleman Grimmett's previous chart at RPS 2010, I immediately knew it was an important moment for the Resource Planning Summit. The chart provided proof of something we all inherently knew - that a strong resource planning process would contribute to driving PMO and portfolio productivity. Conference attendees and clients had asked me forever, "Where are the metrics?" and here they were. However, when the updated chart was put in front of me this time around, it meant so much more to the discipline of Resource Planning and the validation of the Summit. Here is why:

Monday, November 28, 2011

Posted by  Phil Wolf  at 10:00

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

Posted  at 00:00

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.