Category: Articles

What does a good PPO Project Manager Dashboard look like?

It’s one of the most common questions we get from our PPO users. Therefore, the idea of this post is to introduce some high-level best practices when producing your PPO Project Manager Dashboard. But before we get into the detail, there are a couple of factors that influence a good PPO Project Manager Dashboard, so … Continue reading

Total fuels up IS division with PPO; reduces manual project reporting by 50 percent

Energy company, Total South Africa’s Information Systems (IS) division implements Project Portfolio Office’s cloud-based project portfolio management (PPM) application, PPO, to slash the time spent on project management reporting, reducing it from two and a half days per week to instantaneous, real-time information at any point. “Total’s IS division took the decision to build a … Continue reading

PPO’s project management tool enables the Spitfire restoration

After 137 Spitfire MK IX aeroplanes originally arrived in South Africa in the late 1940s to serve in the South African Air Force (SAAF) until 1954, there are now only two of these vintage aircraft left in this country. One of them rests – in a flightless condition - at the Ditsong National Museum of … Continue reading

A Project Full of Regrets

Ever had a project that just didn’t go well? Of course you have… you may not have realised how bad it was…you still may not realise it…but we’ve all had one or two. For me, it was one that spiralled down the drain due to error-prone deliverables going out to the customer, a staff that was … Continue reading

5 ways to improve your project management style today

Project managers aren't perfect. If we were, we would never experience project failures. We all have areas where we could improve and they may help the project be more successful financially, or end on time, or bring the team closer together, or increase project customer satisfaction. The project management areas we could focus on are … Continue reading

PPO injects a healthy dose of project portfolio management, reporting, accountability and delivery at national level

The National Department of Health (DoH) has adopted a single source of reporting, which eliminates variances and ensures always-available, accurate project portfolio management information across national and all nine provincial levels. In early 2011, the department released its Medium Term Strategic Framework, also known as its 10 Point Plan. The programme was put together to … Continue reading

Manage all PPO user aspects with our User Management API

We are pleased to announce the availability of our brand new User Management API which is supplemental to our existing Integration API. The User Management API, as the name suggests, allows you to manage all aspects around users including the ability to create users, modify users, extract user details and even resetting passwords. Detailed documentation … Continue reading

PPO refreshes Coca-Cola Beverages Africa’s project portfolio management framework

Coca-Cola Beverages Africa (CCBA) has kicked off the roll out of Project Portfolio Office’s PPO, a locally developed, secure, cloud-based project portfolio management application, in order to help the operation realise project value as quickly as possible. CCBA began operations in July 2016 whenThe Coca-Cola Company, SABMiller plc and Gutsche Family Investments (GFI), majority shareholders in … Continue reading

5 Things That You Need to Stop Doing as a Project Manager

Newsflash...there are some things we are doing as project managers that are wrong. Just wrong. They seem logical. Everyone does these things, right? We are expected to do these things...accommodate everyone...play nice with management. Think again. Project success depends heavily on your customer's perception of the project and outcome. Always keep that in mind...and read … Continue reading

UCT Properties & Services division sees a new level of project management with PPO

Founded in 1829, the University of Cape Town (UCT) has a proud tradition of academic excellence and effecting social change and development. The university employs more than 5,000 staff members across six faculties, including Engineering and the Built Environment, Health Sciences, Science, Commerce, Law and Humanities and the Centre for Higher Education Development (CHED), as … Continue reading