Category: Articles

It’s time for PPO’s upgraded time entries functionality

Project managers need to understand actual values for the time spent on projects (in terms of the original forecasts) when a project is coming to a close. Project Portfolio Office’s (PPO) time entry functionality has already entrenched itself as a useable and valuable way for clients to report back on the planned and actual time … Continue reading

Project Portfolio Office hosts an Easter event for the kids of the Boitumelo Children’s Home

Project Portfolio Office (PPO) recognises the importance of sustainable community development and contributed to this cause by hosting an Easter event for the children and volunteers of the Boitumelo Children’s Home in Soshanguve on Tuesday, 15 April 2014. This type of giving back to the community is a key value held by all employees at … Continue reading

Top ICT firm, BCX, expands PPO use as a management tool for greater project visibility

The Business Connexion Application Services (BCX-AS) department of leading JSE-listed ICT company, Business Connexion (BCX), has seen a number of benefits since its rollout of Project Portfolio Office (PPO), an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration management application, including the provision of a central view for its many projects. The BCX-AS department joins a … Continue reading

Project closure – why it drags on and how to make it stop!

Projects are commonly characterised as temporary endeavours, meaning that they (should) eventually come to an end. In practice, however, we often see the closing phase of a project being delayed, sometimes far beyond the identified or required project closure date. In this blog, I explore the top three reasons, as experienced by the Project Portfolio … Continue reading

Project Portfolio Office chooses Boitumelo Children’s Home to make a sustainable difference.

“We rise by lifting others” Robert Ingersoll Project Portfolio Office (PPO) is committed to making sustainable improvements in everything we do and extend this philosophy to our culture of “giving back”. Our team is committed to change, and for this reason has selected the Boitumelo Children’s Home as the recipient of our sustainable contributions over … Continue reading

Top five PPO best practices, part one

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, … Continue reading

Lessons learned – key to project management success

A critical aspect of successful project management is to review completed projects, identify successes and failures, or “lessons learned”, and incorporate them to help deliver value for future projects. “The recent implementation of PPO, Project Portfolio Office’s online project portfolio management (PPM) application, at one of Africa's largest retailers of food, general merchandise and clothing, … Continue reading

Unified Payment Services Limited to refine project management process with Project Portfolio Office

Unified Payment Services Limited has rolled out Project Portfolio Office, an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, to meet its need for a more integrated approach to project management activities. Unified Payments, otherwise known as Unified Payment Services Limited, is a card-neutral and option-neutral payments service provider founded in 1997 by a consortium … Continue reading

Introducing enhanced subscription management

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 … Continue reading

PPO makes its mark at London’s Project Challenge Show

Project Office Portfolio (PPO) recently made its debut at the Project Challenge show in London. As the UK’s leading show for projects, programmes, process and resources with two editions per year, we can report back that the Spring 2014 event, which took place on the 12th and 13th of March, was a resounding success for … Continue reading