Author: Tarryn-Leigh Frans
Tarryn-Leigh is the Marketing Manager at PPO. She is enthusiastic about business improvement and is keen to share information and influence change. In her free time, she loves traveling, reading, and spending time with her husband and dogs.
Have you seen our newest enhancement? Of course, you have, it’s hard to miss! Our latest enhancement has added an additional 20 project data fields and an average of 15 more fields across other entities. Why is this good news? For those of you that don’t know what the fuss is about, data fields are …
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Project Portfolio Office aims to provide the best project management solution on the market. To do this, we make it a habit of listening closely to our users, taking note of the features they would like to see. And lately, we have been on a roll! If you haven’t heard about our new invoices in …
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In part one of this five-part series, we will discuss the topic of collaboration, with the aim of supporting project managers and their teams to become more effective in the use of PPO, and thus complete more successful projects. Best Practice #1: Collaboration In order to keep a project moving towards successful completion, project managers, …
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If you administer Project Portfolio Office (PPO) and are responsible for the managing of the subscriptions and processing invoices, you'll love our new feature “Invoices in PPO”! We noticed that many of you have been asking the same questions – “Can I get a copy of my monthly invoice?” “Can I access historical invoices?” “Can …
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Project portfolio management (PPM) software allows the project community, including the executives and management within an organisation, the ability to maintain a centralised view of the portfolio, which assists in making key financial and business decisions for the projects. Most PPM software is designed to facilitate, support or enable existing project processes and knowledge, but …
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After numerous entries, the Project Portfolio Office team is delighted to announce the 2013 UTi Project of the Year winners! To recap, this initiative was introduced to identify examples of great project management, which were measured against business benefit, results, collaboration, improvements and lessons learned. The contest began in September with nominations closing on 31st …
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Over recent months, alpha geeks across many businesses have been working away at replacing or upgrading the Microsoft Windows operating system of many personal computers. Due to the progression of technology and the increase in memory size, some computers have been upgraded from a 32-bit to a 64-bit version of Windows. Project Portfolio Office (PPO), …
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Many organisations today have some form of matrix organisational structure in place. A matrix organisation is one where functional leaders are responsible for more than one area, with their resources having a dotted line reporting to one or more project managers. The problem is, these environments often result in confusion for the team and frustration …
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