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.
One of the most common reasons for project failure is poor communication, making the elimination of this issue the number one reason for the implementation of Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software. Successful projects can attribute a sizable part of their success to good team collaboration, with all team members having being involved throughout the project. …
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Implementing Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software can be challenging with so much to keep track of: stakeholders, alignment, progress, requirements and changes; but this doesn’t have to be the case. Selecting the right PPM software is a big decision for any organisation, and by choosing Project Portfolio Office (PPO) you are already off to a …
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Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software shakes most organisations to the core and its touch points spread throughout the enterprise, way beyond projects. You’ll find that areas including finance, marketing, human resources, senior management, business operations and other systems are also all impacted. These areas often provide input to the project environment and will more than …
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There are a number of reasons behind an organisation’s decision to implement Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software. Key motives include a clearer understanding of whether projects currently being executed are aligned to strategic objectives in terms of benefit realisation, assessing the prioritisation and sequencing of projects given the company’s capacity, and measuring health levels of …
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While effective people management has been cited as one of the key reasons for successful project delivery, the reality is that hostility among team members, conflicting goals, inconsistent performance and unclear expectations are all challenges that we, as project managers, face daily. Over the years, project managers have adopted numerous management techniques (some successful and …
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The latest major version of Post Vision Technology’s Project Portfolio Office (PPO) solution is certain to please current users and win an even greater customer base. “As is Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) custom, PPO users receive frequent software updates, automatically and for free with no need to reconfigure or reimplement each version,” says Estie van der Watt, …
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Project Portfolio Office (PPO), an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, has been named as one of FindTheBest.com’s top 10 project management software offerings worldwide, garnering the solution a “Best of Project Management 2012” award. FindTheBest.com is an unbiased, data-driven comparison engine, which organises and presents data in a consumer-friendly format. The site …
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