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MOYO Business Advisory centralises data for improved decision making with PPO’s PPM tool

South African system architecture and analytics company, MOYO Business Advisory has rolled out PPO, Project Portfolio Office’s simple to use, cost effective and scalable project portfolio management (PPM) application, using the tool at an operational level for improved service delivery. “MOYO plays within the complete ‘change your business’ space, providing services such as process optimisation, … Continue reading

Make Every Project Meeting Count

Some people like to hold project meetings just to hold meetings. They control people's time for an hour or two and it somehow makes them feel more important. It must be a control thing. It's not for me...I like productivity. Just today I got a call about a potential meeting next Tuesday from noon to … Continue reading

15 principles that made Agile not so fragile for the PPO DevOps team

Project Portfolio Office’s DevOps team has made an almost natural progression towards Agile throughout the years. When the PPO tool was introduced in 2004, the waterfall model was the order of the day. PPO had ample scope to grow as a product and the projects we undertook were mostly large feature sets that took weeks, … Continue reading

Sanlam reduced costs by 40 percent by consolidating project portfolio management platforms with PPO

Sanlam, one of South Africa’s largest financial services groups, has reduced project-related technology costs by 40 percent, by consolidating three different platforms for the management of its projects, enhancements, support, demand and supply management and timesheets portfolios, into one. As one of the largest financial services groups in South Africa, Sanlam provides a number of … Continue reading

To Certify or Not to Certify – Still a Burning Project Management Question

Project management certification. Is it helpful? Does it get you jobs? Does it increase your project management skills? Does it add value to you as a project manager? Does it add value to the organisation you work for? Monetarily...is it worth it? Should hiring organisations require it? Should hiring managers demand it? These are all … Continue reading

A journey: About waterfalls, “tick-tock”, time-boxing and modern Agile

I’ve never liked the waterfall based model for IT project delivery. Even 20 years ago, it was obvious that a linear approach just didn’t work well when you didn’t know what it is that you wanted to build or how to go about it. It didn’t work for the large scale data warehouse projects that … Continue reading

What does a good PPO Project Manager Dashboard look like?

It’s one of the most common questions we get from our PPO users. Therefore, the idea of this post is to introduce some high-level best practices when producing your PPO Project Manager Dashboard. But before we get into the detail, there are a couple of factors that influence a good PPO Project Manager Dashboard, so … Continue reading

Total fuels up IS division with PPO; reduces manual project reporting by 50 percent

Energy company, Total South Africa’s Information Systems (IS) division implements Project Portfolio Office’s cloud-based project portfolio management (PPM) application, PPO, to slash the time spent on project management reporting, reducing it from two and a half days per week to instantaneous, real-time information at any point. “Total’s IS division took the decision to build a … Continue reading

PPO’s project management tool enables the Spitfire restoration

After 137 Spitfire MK IX aeroplanes originally arrived in South Africa in the late 1940s to serve in the South African Air Force (SAAF) until 1954, there are now only two of these vintage aircraft left in this country. One of them rests – in a flightless condition - at the Ditsong National Museum of … Continue reading

A Project Full of Regrets

Ever had a project that just didn’t go well? Of course you have… you may not have realised how bad it was…you still may not realise it…but we’ve all had one or two. For me, it was one that spiralled down the drain due to error-prone deliverables going out to the customer, a staff that was … Continue reading