The CS Resource Management application is produced by Campana & Schott.   Product Summary: Helps users manage project resources and approve processes more effectively and with greater transparency.     Capabilities: Accommodates live feed on status of requests Reports can be generated quickly to help guide and track priorities Users can submit their end-of-project requirements through a standardized process…

CS Task Board is produced by Campana Schott. Product Summary: This tool serves as a “digital bulletin board” for SharePoint by helping users create and share visual representations of data.   Capabilities: Users can work with and edit very large lists with drag-and-drop Can be used by all team members who need to create lists and track and…

QCheck-IT! is produced by QuantumPM. Product Summary: This free Microsoft Project app helps project managers review the quality of the tasks in their Microsoft Project schedules.. Capabilities: Evaluates a task highlighted in the project schedule and provides: a) Task Audit, which evaluates each task against a list of audit conditions and provides a result; and b) Task…

Earned Value Manager is produced by QuantumPM. Product Summary: This program uses the project’s work breakdown structure (WBS) to lock in the controls needed for earned value management. Capabilities: Allows users to compare their progress with “work packages” to analyze tasks that have been completed Integrates with Microsoft Project and select financial systems to look at scheduling,…

Every Project Management Office (PMO) is different. Those of us who have been in the project management industry or who have worked within many PMOs will tell you the same. Go to any PMI local chapter meeting and talk with your colleagues about their PMO and often their PMO is quite different from yours. PMOs…

When we think about measuring the performance of a project, it’s not really the same as measuring the performance of a team or a process. So we need to think a little differently about the kinds of measures that will tell us what we really need to know. When we measure the performance of the…

  Project Management Institute (PMI)® Professional Development Units (PDUs): This Webinar is eligible for 1 PMI® PDU in the Technical Category of the Talent Triangle.   Event Description: Is one of your New Year’s resolutions to become a more effective user of Microsoft Project?  Join us for this exciting and practical webinar that will help…

After the powers that be approve your project plan, you may be tempted to sit back and rest on your… ahem… laurels. It turns out, the project execution phase is when you earn your salt as a project manager. Before you analyze performance, manage changes, and keep the project on track, you have to update…