We're excited to announce some cool new features coming soon. Version 5.1 is now in our Quality Assurance phase. This means we're heating it up to see if it can withstand heat, wind, hail, and snow (ok, we're based in Vermont).
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Easy-as-pie projects! Why do so many project tools are designed with lists of data and text? Today, we have more complex projects and more people joining projects. Learn why few have the time and the patience to learn how to use these out-of-date tools.
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Organizations try to get work done either from memory, or by "reinventing the wheel". Does that happen at your company? For some people, it’s much easier to create something from scratch than to hunt down something that’s reusable. But. that's wasteful. Read how to improve...
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A recent Harvard Business Review blog post states that the excitement about disruptive innovation has blinded us to one simple irrefutable economic fact: The vast majority of profit from innovation does not come from the initial disruption; it comes from... (Read to find out!)
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What’s needed is a smart and dynamic place for your knowledge. It needs to be easy for your teams to get instant access to the details of how to get work done well and why they are doing it.
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Learn from an old game on how to improve projects. “Pick-Up Sticks” was a game where you release a bundle of thin, 8-inch sticks onto a table. They land randomly. Each player must remove a stick without disturbing the remaining ones. Read how this applies to projects.
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Thanksgiving is upon us and it's time for pies! It's also a time to give thanks to our health, food, friends, and family. It could also be a great time to give thanks to our human ability to learn from our personal and business life.
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PMOs that focus on time and budget only are not cutting it. Change the name “PMO” to “RMO” for Results Management Office. Focusing on project results rather than traditional project management scheduling could transform the their departments. Ready why…
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This is one-day virtual conference has over 60,000 other people from around the world. Dr. Harold Kerzner, Frank Saladis, and other heavy hitters will be presenting their webcasts and live Q&A. Paul Dandurand, PIEmatrix CEO, has teamed up with Christa Kirby, IIL's VP Global Products & Services. They will present the "5 Steps to Transforming Your PM Methodology Execution".
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We have officially released version 5.0. New customers signing up are now getting the new version out of the box
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In the upcoming 5.0 release (coming within weeks), we have developed a new project state called "Draft" mode. This new feature will allow you to create a new project and assign people without giving them visibility.
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Ever wonder why you work 10+ hours per day to get your large and complex project done on time, only to find it was late because other people just didn't put their hearts into it?
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Have you ever conducted a vendor selection and given the winning prize to the vendor that had the most requirement features checked? This is a common story since many of us tend to get stuck with the features war syndrome. How would Steve Job’s approach a tool selection process? Read on…
Read MoreIf you ask someone in HR, marketing, or finance who runs projects, many say IT does that. Then if you ask someone in IT who runs processes, they say that's what the other business departments do.
Read MoreThis post is about implementing what Forrester calls a collaborative process or what Gartner calls an unstructured process. It's a process that is not automated for transactional purposes, but is more fluid and driven by people, which accounts for about 80% of all business processes.
Read MoreThe University of Connecticut School of Business students used PIEmatrix in their Business Analytics and Project Management (MSBAPM) program course. The students worked on a real project for LIMRA, the program's corporate partner. The students objectives were to predict customers who will buy life insurance and forecast the growth of the life insurance market.
Read MoreLiving in the woods among the trees have made it easy for me to miss the logical design, which is just make the darn create button large and center! It took me a few years, but I get it now. In our new upcoming version, we will add the big plus where it's meant to be.
Read MorePR Newswire Press Release on the Wall Street Journal: Navin, Haffty & Associates Chooses PIEmatrix to Manage EHR Projects at Hospitals
Read MorePie recently sponsored the PMI Champlain Valley Chapter's 2013 Symposium event. We set up a survey for the attendees. We asked "What are your top 3 project best practice needs that you would like to discuss with your peers?"
Read MoreNEW YORK, April 4, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- International Institute for Learning, Inc. (IIL) and PIEmatrix, Inc. announced today the formation of a strategic alliance that will integrate IIL's Unified Project Management Methodology (UPMM), a set of comprehensive web-based tools for managing projects, with the PIEmatrix business execution platform, an online enterprise project management software and portfolio dashboard suite.
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