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PPO’s year end update brings a wave of new features!

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Our newest features have landed, join us as we take them for a spin at the upcoming webinar! Are you ready to explore our newest features? In the last few months, we’ve been tirelessly working to improve PPO’s capabilities and we believe that our latest enhancements will level up your PPO user experience. The upcoming webinar will showcase how best to adopt these awesome features, learn from experienced consultants and get answers to frequently asked questions. Here’s what you can expect…

New Feature – Sort Entities on Home and Project View Pages

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Good news! PPO Admins with the help of our new drag and drop capability can now finally adjust the sort order of entities for all users on the Home and Project View pages. You will need access to the System Configuration settings under the Administration menu. Did we mention that’s super easy to update? In less than 5-min, we’ll show you this small but mighty feature in action.

Why PPO Health Indicator RAGs are not Automated

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The RAG acronym stands for RED, AMBER, GREEN. These colours make up the traffic light colours used by most project managers to convey their subjective view of a project’s status. A RED traffic light normally indicates there are problems on the project (or an aspect of it); AMBER indicates there are issues that are being dealt with by the team but acts as a warning, and GREEN generally indicates that everything is okay.

Sun International rolls out PPO’s PPM tool to provide an enterprise view of its portfolio.

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The project management office (PMO) of Sun International, a business with a proud legacy in the gaming, hospitality and entertainment sector, is using Project Portfolio Office’s cloud-based project and portfolio management (PPM) tool, PPO, to build maturity within its project environment, providing gentle guardrails to establish best practice, while efficiently managing projects.

Introducing Markdown

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This video introduces markdown which allows user to apply formatting to text in PPO. e.g. add bulleted lists, bold text, apply italics or headings. We do our very best to make PPO better every day, so we’d love to hear your feedback on these latest enhancements. Don’t forget to let us know if you have … Continue reading “Introducing Markdown”

Export your PPO lists in one click

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Ever wanted the information on your list page to be quickly exported into a CSV format? Now you can with PPO’s new Export Button on all list pages in PPO. In the past, users would navigate to the Reports Menu and extract a Detail report for the applicable entity. With less clicks, users now have the flexibility to export your current list page into a CSV formatted file.

New Season, New Improvements

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We’ve been working hard in the last couple of months to make PPO easier and simpler to use for our users. Several the improvements we’ve made have come directly from ideas that you, our administrators, have logged on our community portal, so thank you, and please keep logging your ideas to make PPO better.

Taking ownership of your PMO career

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The world of the project management office (PMO) has changed dramatically, shifting away from the PMO having an administrative or support role only towards adding real business value. This evolution has been similarly reflected in the career opportunities available within the PMO space.