We are pleased to announce that Project Portfolio Office’s South African office has moved to a new office space, this time with a grand view of Menlyn Maine. The new space, in Corobay Corner, enables us to offer convenient and contemporary training facilities in a quirky yellow and purple environment for the benefit of our …
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Project Portfolio Office has officially launched its project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, PPO, into the Zimbabwean market. Along with local partner, e-Smart Systems, the organisation introduced PPO at the third annual project managers' dinner, hosted by the Project Management Institute of Zimbabwe (PMIZ), in Harare, in August 2013. Read the full article on IT-Online.
The capital of Hungary is Budapest, which is really two cities: Buda and Pest. It is bordered by Slovakia, Austria, Croatia, Slovenia and Romanian. This country boasts 2000-year-old Roman ruins sitting side by side with 400-year-old Turkish monuments enchanting you with equal splendour. 20% of Hungary’s population lives in Budapest. So, every 5th person in Hungary …
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Provider of scalable enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, Sage ERP Africa has selected Project Portfolio Office (PPO), an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, to create greater visibility of its portfolio of projects. Read the full article on IT-Online.
The Project Portfolio Office team’s day-to-day dress code is generally casual and low key. Power suits, high heels and salon styled hair are reserved for high days and holidays. So, for Casual Day this year we decided to go all out , with big hats and even bigger hair. Casual Day is a fundraising project …
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We are thrilled to introduce not one, but three new team members. Spring has certainly sprung in our office. Meet Warren, Dorienne & Matt. Warren completed his Masters in IT at the University of Pretoria in 2012. He brings with him seven years of experience, specializing in the latest front-end technologies and scalable architecture. Dorienne holds …
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We celebrated Jimmy's birthday in our "pajama lounge" in style... but without cake. I was rather disappointed, as I love a good slice of chocolate cake, especially chocolate icing, even though my water bowl has to be flushed after. One slice also ensures a sugar buzz of 8 hours, and about 12 000 swimming laps.
Estie, our fantastic delivery manager, was most thrilled with her "Angry Birds" cake. We surprised her with this red and yellow fluffy looking cake as she is most fond of these animated characters.
The enthusiastic Project Portfolio Office (PPO) team members recently enjoyed a team building challenge, with a good, old fashioned cook-off at Liv’In Batterie de Cuisine in Pretoria. This multi-coloured restaurant boasts a “Master Chef” style kitchen that is used to facilitate culinary training. We thought it fitting to arrive at the venue already in-character, with …
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Here at Project Portfolio Office there is no doubt that we are a social bunch who like to support initiatives that allow us do fun things. Friday the 2nd of August saw us reaching for our slippers, in what was PPO’s first time in supporting the Slipper Day initiative, certainly not the last though, as …
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