I won friends with Sharepoint today. An aging, clunky tool, it can share
project information across corporate, national and IT frontiers.

Apple’s new iPad is just one deliverable, not the whole project. The new data centre is another, driving long term benefits http://ping.fm/rcMth

A call to order today. A meeting without an agenda? No agenda should mean no
meeting.

How to get fullest use of timesheets so you can track proj&task actuals
vs budget? To motivate externals, check their invoices vs timesheets

If you are using Enterprise PM software, you must resist pirates. Once PMs start using solo MSProject, you lose any chance of consolidation.

How to build a programme forecast budget using actuals from finance plus costed ETC from projects? Get a one month gap. Finance is sooo slow

I plan using Product breakdown structures. As my programme was planned in silos (not by me), I’m now doing a Product recomposition structure

We built the budgets in mandays, then converted to euros. Later, they cut
the budget. So now Im converting a euro cut into a manday cut...

Just reviewed the project budgets, done last year in Excel. Found a huge
error due to wrong formula. That�s why I use enterprise PM software

Just added 12 dependencies on IT projects to my programme roadmap. It
flagged 5 as late. Scheduling software is a tool. Powerpoint is a toy

Yesterday, the utility of a programme roadmap was challenged. Why bother
with scheduling software? Why not use powerpoint? Less hassle