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For three years now the Microsoft SharePoint team in Redmond have been developing new and very exciting functionality for the SharePoint platform. SharePoint 2010 will essentially be the fourth major version of the platform since the first version shipped in 2001...

I was kindly invited by Microsoft to join them this week at the PMI Global Congress in Orlando. I spoke on Monday and many folks asked me for a copy of the slides. Must have been something good in them or maybe they were just being kind to me! Either way here is a copy of same...

As I explained in the last post ... I had the pleasure of working with a really great team recently - a team that were dealing with a very dynamic situation - a new team that never met each other before the project started - a team that were working on a very challenging project...

I had the pleasure of working with a really great team recently - a team that were dealing with a very dynamic situation - a new team where not even one member of the team had met one other before this project started - a team that were working on a very, very challenging project and under...

I had been putting off reading "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell for no known reason. You know how that goes. As it happens my procrastination was not such a bad thing...

The Microsoft Project teams have been busy developing new and very exciting versions of their flagship products, Project Desktop 2010 and Project Server 2010...

It is really easy to spin up a project site to manage a project on SharePoint. With solutions like pmPoint it is now also very easy to spin up a Project Office site to manage across many projects...

I am in NY en route to Phoenix for Microsoft's Project Conference. We are exhibiting and we were invited to speak this year. Always nice to be asked to speak! Our topic is "Opening SharePoint to Project 2010"...

This is the fifth in a series of five short posts on the work and project management spectrum. Organizations sometimes end up with too many projects running. Sometimes they have inadvertently invested in the the wrong projects. Or the right projects at the wrong time...

This is the fourth in a series of five short posts on the work and project management spectrum. The question being addressed here is, "How do organizations manage across collections of projects?"...

This is the third in a series of five short posts on the work and project management spectrum. Much of the initiatives in organizations are delivered through projects of some shape or other. The question again is - what is the required shape?...

This is the second in a series of five short posts on the work and project management spectrum. Much of the work in organizations is managed using tasks of some shape or other. The question is - what is the shape?...

This is the first in a series of five short posts on the work and project management spectrum. Much of the work in organizations is managed outside the context of formal projects...

Doug Coutts, a Partner in the firm, OTB Solutions (out of Seattle) delivered a great webcast yesterday titled, "Managing Project Portfolios in Healthcare". Doug's firm has conducted an EPM (Enterprise Program Management) survey of the Healthcare sector and Doug presented some of these results...