Program Management Software is the coordination of several related projects and programs to achieve an organization’s goals and objectives. Program management aims at creating benefits to organization with synergy from co-management of multiple projects. A program plan is concerned more with benefits than deliverables. Program management includes three dimensions. The first dimension covers: The … Read more
Product Lifecycle Management Windows Vista. Google Glass. New Coke. Bisleri Pop. Suzuki Kizashi…! How many of you are still using these products? Forget about using it, many of you may not remember some of these brands even existed! Worldwide, companies launch hundreds of new products every year. The products range from everything we need from … Read more
Evaluation and selecting a project management software is an arduous task with 50+ options available. The process is further complicated when most software providers highlight how their features and functionalities are superior to the rest. Despite vendors creating ‘cheat sheets’ for investing in the ‘right’ project management software, customer organizations struggle to ‘sign the dotted … Read more
Document Management Let us face it. Documents are here to stay. Either in paper or digital form. Organizations deal with a diversity of documentation – on paper, paper converted to digital, and pure digital. As the global economy undergoes radical shifts in nature, scale, complexity, compliance, regulations grow, the need for documentation grows manifold. The … Read more
Project Management Software The Scenario Over the last decade, the number of options for project management software has zoomed. As a customer, it is great to have many choices. Are too many project management software options good? These options have caused confusion to business leaders during the project management software evaluation process. The decision becomes … Read more
Project Management Software and Tools Circa 1997. My first exposure to a desktop project management software for a special project. The interface left me highly impressed and I thought I was doing ‘something very different.’ I could not imagine something called Online Project Management Software then. Fast forward to 2021. Age of a global project economy. Businesses … Read more
Project Management Technology Before getting into the blog, let us applaud the contributions of a rare breed of professionals – the project managers who are there for all seasons! International Project Management (IPM) Day is observed each year on the first Thursday in November – to recognize the hard work, dedication, and often unappreciated efforts … Read more
Order to Cash (O2C) Process Through this blog, I intend to: Let us start with a basic question – what does the O2C process stand for? Before answering the above question, I would like to break this blog into three parts. Part 1 Organizations try to accomplish their business objectives through strategies. Strategies are executed broadly … Read more
Cost Estimation and Budgeting You may be delivering a professional services project for a B2B customer or a new product development project. It might be an internal project to improve the productivity of a functional area through an automation tool. Let us face it. Irrespective of the nature of your project, businesses and their leaders … Read more
Project Management Software The opening lines of the book Good to Great by Jim Collins are extraordinarily grand and shocking. It states: Good is the enemy of great. Most companies worldwide are contented by being good. They don’t aspire for greatness – this is true for professional services firms too. The next obvious question would be – Why don’t … Read more
