Author: Tarryn-Leigh Frans

Tarryn-Leigh is the Marketing Manager at PPO. She is enthusiastic about business improvement and is keen to share information and influence change. In her free time, she loves traveling, reading, and spending time with her husband and dogs.

Maximise Collaboration with Conversations & The Feed Widget

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As we continue to evolve and refine our project portfolio management tool, we wanted to take a moment to shine a spotlight on Conversations together with the Feed Widget that’s been quietly transforming the way project and product teams collaborate using PPO.

Recap of Our Mid-Year New Feature Product Webinar

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We just wrapped up our mid-year new feature product webinar, and it was packed with amazing insights from our experienced consultants and practical tips from one of our users in the infrastructure space gaining a huge amount of value from using PPO’s Boards in team engagements. If you missed it, don’t worry—we’ve got you covered! In this blog post, we’ll break down all the key points and highlights so you can catch up on everything we talked about. Let’s dive into the main takeaways and see what you can start applying right away!

Easily Copy your Customised Home Pages

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We are thrilled to unveil our latest enhancement: the Copy Home Page Tab feature designed to transform the way you work with your Customised Home Pages. Whether you’re a project manager executing projects for multiple departments or portfolios, a team member with dashboard views per project, or a PPO administrator duplicating views for multiple user groups, our new Copy Home Page Tab feature is here to help you discover a faster and easier way to copy your customised views.

Why you might not be ready to implement PPM software

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In this blog post, we’ll explore five signs that indicate your business might not be ready to implement PPM software. By identifying these signs early on, you can avoid potential pitfalls and ensure that your transition to PPM software is smooth and successful.

Project Portfolio Office Scoops Up Industry Award

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We’re bursting with excitement, and we just couldn’t wait to share the news with you all! Brace yourselves, because we’ve clinched one of Intelligent ICT’s prestigious Channel category awards. The Intelligent ICT Awards celebrate the best of the IT Industry in Africa and highlights the many diverse and innovative ICT implementation projects taking place within the various vertical and technology areas.

Coming Soon – Multiple Select Custom Lists…

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This highly anticipated feature will revolutionise the way you interact with your custom lists. No longer bound by the constraints of single-item selection, you will be able to effortlessly choose multiple items from a single custom list in one go.

Effortless Planning with Calculated Task Duration

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Manual task duration is a thing of the past! We’ve implemented calculated task duration regardless of how you load your tasks into PPO. This enhancement helps streamline tasks within PPO which will hopefully lead to improved accuracy and most importantly save you valuable time.

Understanding the benefits of setting default values

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Our latest product news feature introduces “setting default values” on all data fields in PPO. This administration enhancement has huge potential for streamlining data inputs, improving user experience and can even serve as an onboarding tool for the creation and automation of project artefacts like demand requests and project charters. Simply put, default values are pre-populated data inputs that users can either accept or modify.