Category: Articles

When should projects be added to PPO? (Part I)

Clients often ask us when the best time is to add projects to PPO. Should it be when they are approved? When the initial idea is conceived? When the need or demand for the project is first raised? Or perhaps when the proposal is submitted or approved? To answer this, it is necessary to look … Continue reading

Those Days You Don’t Want to be in Charge

Wondering why the topic of ‘project management’ came to me today? Good guess...because today is one of those days that I don't want to lead. I don't want to be in charge. I don't even really want to be the parent today. Thankfully, that is always temporary and usually only when I am sick or … Continue reading

PPO partners with ARETEN, UK based IT solutions consultancy

PPO’s latest partner and client, ARETEN, is a UK based IT solutions consultancy providing services to companies preparing for significant IT change projects. Their business focus is collaborating with IT leaders, specialising in PMO services, virtualisation, shared IT, and cloud services. As part of their service offering, ARETEN consults and assists NGOs with improving project management maturity. NGOs … Continue reading “PPO partners with ARETEN, UK based IT solutions consultancy”

Carlow Precast, Best External Product 2014 winner joins PPO

Carlow Precast, 2014 Best External Product winner for the UK House Builders Product Awards is an engineering company who takes their clients through the design phase, manufacturing and installing of precast concrete for pipelines, water reticulation and dams to name but a few. With headquarters and manufacturing facility in Carlow and offices in London, Swansea … Continue reading

PPO shares the warmth this winter

As part of its pledge to provide ongoing assistance and support to the residents of Boitumelo Children’s Home in Soshanguve, Pretoria, employees of Project Portfolio Office (PPO) came together in full force to collect blankets in order to provide the home with some much needed warmth over these cold winter months. More than 95 blankets … Continue reading

Rainbow Farms uses Project Portfolio Office to streamline new product development processes

Rainbow Farms, South Africa's largest processor and marketer of chicken, has improved its new product development with approval tracking, transparency, reporting and document control, while streamlining business processes and enhancing accountability. Rainbow Farms, a subsidiary of RCL Foods Limited, implemented Project Portfolio Office (PPO), an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, within its … Continue reading

PPO introduces improved security with single sign-on

Project Portfolio Office aims to provide the best project management solution on the market. To do this, we make it a habit of listening closely to our users, taking note of the features they would like to see. And lately, we have been on a roll! If you haven’t heard about our new invoices in … Continue reading

It’s time for PPO’s upgraded time entries functionality

Project managers need to understand actual values for the time spent on projects (in terms of the original forecasts) when a project is coming to a close. Project Portfolio Office’s (PPO) time entry functionality has already entrenched itself as a useable and valuable way for clients to report back on the planned and actual time … Continue reading

Project Portfolio Office hosts an Easter event for the kids of the Boitumelo Children’s Home

Project Portfolio Office (PPO) recognises the importance of sustainable community development and contributed to this cause by hosting an Easter event for the children and volunteers of the Boitumelo Children’s Home in Soshanguve on Tuesday, 15 April 2014. This type of giving back to the community is a key value held by all employees at … Continue reading

Top ICT firm, BCX, expands PPO use as a management tool for greater project visibility

The Business Connexion Application Services (BCX-AS) department of leading JSE-listed ICT company, Business Connexion (BCX), has seen a number of benefits since its rollout of Project Portfolio Office (PPO), an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration management application, including the provision of a central view for its many projects. The BCX-AS department joins a … Continue reading