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.
We take great pride in PPO’s ease of use and our latest enhancement puts the spotlight on the Time Entries functionality. Completing timesheets is a key feature used by a large number of our clients, but let’s be honest, who enjoys completing a timesheet?
Our latest deployment has added a long-awaited feature to PPO. The feature allows for entities to be added to PPO that are non-project related items. Using PPO’s standard entities such as RAID (Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions), Tasks, Costs, Documents and adding your own custom entities, has always been a strength of PPO and the introduction …
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Project Portfolio Office (PPO) partners with Helderberg Harriers, the Helderberg basin’s most prestigious running club to sponsor its annual race event. Formed in 1977, the Helderberg Harriers consists of a diverse group of members who share a common passion. Although the club is primarily based in the Hottentots-Holland basin, their motto, “anyone who wants to …
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PPO provides the ability to submit records such as stage gates, scope changes / change requests, resource allocations, timesheets, travel requisitions, etc. for approval. This is a feature used in many organisations as it is easily configurable and scalable, even allowing multiple approvers in a particular sequence. With more and more project environments focused on …
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PPO’s Main Menu allows you to navigate quickly to pages within PPO. Even though the existing main menu in PPO is already really good, the latest update will bring further enhancements that improve navigation.
An avatar, also known as a profile picture is typically applied to social media profiles and software apps. So much of our interactions are taking place online these days, which is why PPO is introducing avatars to allow users to express themselves personally.
Unexpected project delays have always been a source of concern for project environments. There are lots of reasons for these delays, ineffective project planning and scheduling, late procurement of materials, poor design, design changes and the list goes on. But the one cause that is understated and within the project management office’s (PMO) mandate to address, is the delay in approving project and product deliverables. I’m sure you can recall more than one occasion where a key deliverable wasn’t approved on time.
Visitors to the Project Portfolio Office web site may already be familiar with our purple Live Chat bubble, lower right hand corner of their screens, but for those of you that haven’t, don’t fret, we are introducing our Live Chat directly in PPO!
PG Group produces, distributes and installs automotive glass, building glass, aluminium frames and window film solutions. For more than 120 years, they have been the name for glass in Southern Africa and has since grown to become a significant worldwide player. Their mission is driven by its commitment to excellence and want to make a difference in their customer’s lives by solving glass problems with real care.
The Project Portfolio Office (PPO) team has been hard at work laying the groundwork and preparing for an exciting new chapter in the evolution of PPO. We can finally unveil the details of our PPO ‘User Interface (UI) Facelift’ project, which will be rolled out over the next few months. What can you expect? A …
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