Category: Articles

PPO welcomes newest client, The South African Association of Freight Forwarders

The South African Association for Freight Forwarders (SAAFF) is a national, non-profit association with members throughout the Republic of South Africa. The Association enables members to use their collective knowledge and skills to determine and recommend practical and effective responses to the many challenges facing not only the forwarding and customs clearing industry, but also … Continue reading

Project Portfolio Office targets Irish market with Trigraph

DUBLIN – July 30, 2014 – As part of the company’s strategy to grow its global footprint, Project Portfolio Office has joined forces with Dublin-based Trigraph Professional Services, to gain greater traction within the Irish market for its online project management and collaboration application, PPO. “Trigraph Professional Services helps its clients to drive performance improvements … Continue reading

Customising e-mails for better collaboration

Like it or not, communication is the most important component within any project. The success of most projects, whether handled by a dedicated project team or virtual team, depends upon communication and collaboration. Communications affects project performance and, without well-established mechanisms, it is likely that the project will fail. Why is this? Executives make decisions … Continue reading

What they don’t teach you in books about project management – Part two

In part one of this two part series, I covered two of what I consider to be four key skills that are critical to project management success. So far we’ve looked at resource conflict resolution and negotiation. In this second instalment, we will look at problem resolution and the ability to push changes through on … Continue reading

What they don’t teach you in books about project management – Part one

In some ways, project management is a black and white profession. There are standard activities you should do, must do and can do to help better ensure project success. You must communicate well and often, you should always produce timely status reports, you can always hold weekly team meetings to stay up to date on … Continue reading

More data fields in PPO

Have you seen our newest enhancement? Of course, you have, it’s hard to miss! Our latest enhancement has added an additional 20 project data fields and an average of 15 more fields across other entities. Why is this good news? For those of you that don’t know what the fuss is about, data fields are … Continue reading

Developing the project

All projects originate from somewhere: a need, a want, a directive, a problem, a catastrophic failure that needs correcting, and so on. Often, when problems arise in an organisation, they are quickly attacked by well-meaning individuals who want to solve the issue quickly. Whilst that may work for small issues, when the need or problem … Continue reading

Bytes Document Solutions implements Project Portfolio Office for increased project visibility and tracking

Bytes Document Solutions, a division of Bytes Technology Group has rolled out Project Portfolio Office, (PPO) an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, to improve project visibility and tracking. Bytes Document Solutions is Africa’s leading document management technology and solutions company, offering a comprehensive range of products and services through three independent business … Continue reading

Project Portfolio Office’s project portfolio management software rolled out at MMI Holdings, delivering increased transparency and enhanced delivery

Project Portfolio Office (PPO), an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, has been successfully implemented within the Group Finance division of MMI Holdings, a JSE-listed financial services group. Following the successful rollout of the tool within MMI’s Human Resources (HR) division, Group Finance will be using it to improve project transparency and delivery. … Continue reading

Has the project been a success? By Caroline Lowings

Quite often when a project finally ends, no one has the time or inclination to even ask, "Has it been a success?" But actually, when a project closes out, a rare opportunity is presented to evaluate what worked and what didn't, and more importantly to capture lessons learnt. It really surprises me that many organisations … Continue reading