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Monday, May 20, 2013
Posted
at 18:04
If the management team in your organization makes any of
these complaints, you have a resource planning problem.
"We start all kinds of projects
but have trouble finishing them."
"I don't have a clue what people in
my organization are working on."
"We have made major investments
in tools and training. Why are we still having so much trouble
executing?"
"All of my people are max'ed out and
we are always asked to do more - and no one sets priorities!"
If you have a problem completing projects, 1)
don't start more projects than you can finish successfully
and 2) monitor portfolio progress with achievability in
mind.
If you don't know what people are working on, ask the
people who know - the line managers of the individual
contributors.
If you have these problems you (probably) aren't doing anything
wrong. You just aren't doing one big thing right!
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Posted by
Peter Heinrich
at 11:58
Not really. While it is true that projects require resource
plans, an organization does not get resource planning from
a collection of project plans.
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Monday, August 13, 2012
Posted by
Paul Samarel
at 16:07
Reporting has historically been a challenge for Project
Portfolio Management (PPM) systems. Canned reports are often
inadequate and do not account for user-defined fields. User-defined
reporting capabilities are typically limited. And third party
business intelligence tools are expensive and require additional
hardware. Companies are left to resort to high-priced custom
reporting consultants, or exporting data to Excel and spending
weeks manipulating and formatting the data.
Read on to learn how PDWare release 6.0 puts flexible, custom
PPM reporting within everyone's grasp!
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Friday, June 22, 2012
Posted by
Mike Berkowitz
at 13:09
On June 19, PDWare's VP of Sales Phil Wolf and VP of Product
Development Baruch Gabo led a well-received
webinar demonstrating PDWare's major new release, PDWare
6.0.
Topics spanned the portfolio lifecycle and included: project
initiation and approval, resource forecasting, scheduling, issues
management, demand and capacity planning, actuals tracking and
dashboard reporting. They also discussed standard deployment topics
like installation requirements, data import and export, and custom
reporting.
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Posted by
Baruch Gabo
at 19:05
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 features on which we've been working. We
encourage you to comment and give us any feedback you might have.
Yes, even 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.
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Monday, May 7, 2012
Posted
at 15:50
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".