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At a glanceTime to lead your projects. Use the right tools for building project plans, assessing risks, assigning resources, and tracking progress and budgets of your projects. Use authenticated real-time information to make decisions with confidence and speed. As a project manager delivering IT services, do you chase other managers to get the right resources? … Read more

At a glanceIt can be myopic to focus only on the productivity of coders and developers. Don’t live with the critical systemic productivity problem, explained in this article, that is slowing everything down.  Get top PSA software to solve it. What is your experience when you try to meet your colleague or a friend who … Read more

At a glanceIT companies face unhappy tradeoffs among profits, revenues, customer satisfaction, and talent retention.The root causeThe solution and its benefits The challenges The IT services business is ultra-competitive. The presence of large, medium, and boutique-type companies creates intense competition. The demands of customers undergoing digital transformation amid contracting IT budgets put more pressure on … Read more

At a glanceWeb-based or cloud-based resource scheduling is the need of the hour. It impacts your project success rate, revenues, talent retention, and customer satisfaction. Find out its benefits. Learn about the challenges in implementing it. If the project managers and resource management group in your IT services company use spreadsheets and emails to allocate … Read more

At a glanceØ  Resource management is crucial for both short-term and long-term successes of organizationsØ  In most organizations, managers struggle get to reliable and real-time information on resourcesØ  PSA software places ‘Single Version Of The Truth” at managers’ fingertips enabling data-based collaboration and decision making. You are an IT services organization that delivers projects to … Read more

At a glanceProfessional Services Automation (PSA) software can significantly improve both productivity and project profitability. By integrating all existing software packages, capturing and validating data, and making it available in real-time, PSA software enables data-based collaboration and better decision-making. It helps with project proposals, resource allocation, and project planning, preventing wasteful work and avoiding duplication … Read more

A guide to making a wishlist for your best PSA and for selecting your vendor. How you approach the making of your wishlist will decide whether you get lost in the feature set or you keep a clear head. Here is an example. Whichever Professional Service Automation Software (PSA) platform you choose, it is going … Read more

At a glance Project management culture can only be built through an intent and consistent leadership practices. It is best to cut the rhetoric and pay attention to real actions related to talent, processes, digitization, and visibility. This is the last article in the three-part series on ‘Project Management Culture’. Using project management software doesn’t … Read more

Does your organization have these signs of a project management culture? A project management software alone doesn’t mean that you have such a culture. Take this test. The signs also hold clues about how to build such a culture. This is the second article in the three-part series on ‘Project Management Culture’. If yours is … Read more

At a glance It is best to understand project management culture as a synthesis of different facets of culture. Project-oriented culture can also have unintended consequences. The downsides can be avoided through a multi-pronged approach. This is the first article in the three-part series on ‘Project Management Culture’. Yours is an IT services company or … Read more