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Latest news and views about the world of project management, portfolio management and PPM.
Recent Posts
How to do resource capacity planning - part one
If you are a software development or professional services organisation, getting your resource levels and skills mix right is pretty key. Resources are probably the biggest cost to your business and also the biggest revenue generators. The method to ...
Comparison of TeamWorks PPM to Microsoft Project Server
Organisations evaluating iPlanWare TeamWorks PPM often consider Microsoft Project Server as an option. We felt it would be useful to provide a comparison of the two products and why we believe iPlanWare TeamWorks PPM is a better option for organisat...
Governance tools in next release of TeamWorks PPM
Two new tools are included in the next release of TeamWorks PPM to help organisations improve their project governance. Project lifecycle processes. All projects have stages they must follow from start up to close down. Within these stages, actions a...
Why freeware software is not free
Every couple of weeks we get contacted by someone asking if our project management software TeamWorks is free (of charge). When I politely tell them that actually no, it is not free they always seem a bit disgruntled. So, after I explain that our em...
SaaS, cloud, hosted and ASP software are all the same
I don’t really understand why software vendors keep introducing new terminology for the same thing. I guess it is the marketing departments trying to give the sales team something “new” to take to prospects. In the early 90R...
Simple risk management
You will find many definitions of risk management available and I don’t intend adding another. But in a project management context, risk management is a way of managing the uncertainty around your project. A risk in its simplest form is somethi...

