Category: Articles

Non-Project Related Work Management Made Easier

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 … Continue reading

#PPOActive sponsors Helderberg Harriers annual 4x4x4 race event

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 … Continue reading

Doing Approvals – Show me the Document!

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 … Continue reading

Auto Clear – The Pros and Cons

You have probably noticed that whenever you update items such as Health Indicators, Comments Risks and Issues in PPO, the “Action / Response” is cleared of the previous comments in that field. This can be frustrating to a user who maybe just forgot to update another field like the Risk Owner or Follow-up date when previously editing. This auto clear function is a setting that can be changed, but before making this change, the pros and cons of doing so should be weighed.

PPO gains a nifty enhancement: Configurable Menus

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.

Local PMO Forum events return to provide PMO leaders and execs with industry insights

Project Management South Africa (PMSA), with the support of Project Portfolio Office, a project and portfolio management (PPM) tool and solutions provider that is committed to growing the project management profession, has officially kicked off its Gauteng and Western Cape PMO Forums again for the first time since COVID-19 closed down face-to-face events in early 2020.

PPO Bootcamps: The What, the Why, the How to Get Signed Up!

PPO has always found that well trained users and PPO Administrators get more value out of PPO, and therefore so does the organisation. We are also aware that users and team members come and go in the project environment, so to make sure we don’t have “training-by-broken-telephone”, we have created a series of training Bootcamps … Continue reading

How Project Portfolio Office adapts approach to implement PPM software successfully

Up until 2019, PPO approached project portfolio management (PPM) software implementations in a typically waterfall approach. We would spend full days with our clients meticulously taking down requirements and then carefully crafting the best solution to meet those requirements – and it worked well – so why did we change our ways? Well, let’s think of the typical issues PPM software implementations face using a waterfall approach.

V&A Waterfront PMO standardises and centralises commercial fit-out project process with PPO

The ‘fit-out’ project team of the commercial space at the iconic Victoria & Alfred (V&A) Waterfront in Cape Town is using Project Portfolio Office’s secure, cloud-based project portfolio management (PPM) tool, PPO, to help standardise the many activities related to more than 140 fit-out construction projects managed by the project management office (PMO) on an annual basis.

Why, Where, and How to Use Avatars in PPO

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.