February, 2011 | IPM Construction Management Software - Integrates with Outlook

February 22, 2011

If you don’t attack the risks, the risks will attack you – project management tools to help attack risks head on

We all know projects carry some degree of risk, but the important thing is to try to manage and mitigate the risk so that it doesn’t evolve into an issue on your project. Too many times, companies have either not conducted a risk assessment, or have ignored risk assessments and not properly addressed and dealt with the risk, and the risk has come back to bite them tenfold.

February 17, 2011

The Workflow series – Converting a Change Request to a Subcontract Change Order

By admin inMiree Le Roy

In the previous post, we looked at how workflows can assist you in taking the information from an issue and creating a change request or RFI . This post will look at one of the next steps in this process, which you may need if the change required has an effect on one of the subcontracts.

February 14, 2011

If everything is going exactly to plan, something somewhere is going massively wrong – how MS Dynamics CRM 2011 dashboards can help

By admin inMiree Le Roy

I found the great quote for my headline from a collection of project management sayings from Steven Seay’s ProjectSteps blog. I thought it was quite quirky and relevant not only to project management in general but also to today’s discussion on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 dashboards.

February 9, 2011

The Workflows Series – Creating RFIs and Change Requests from an Issue

By admin inMiree Le Roy

This is the fourth post in the Workflow series, which we hope has been helpful so far in showing you a few examples of how workflows can help automate some key areas of IPM you use every day.

February 7, 2011

How project managers can benefit from conditional formatting in Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011

By admin inMiree Le Roy

Here at IPM Global we’re gearing up for the global on-premise release of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, earmarked for February 28th. In preparation, I’ve been doing some exploring to discover all the cool new features of CRM 2011 that are going to make your lives a lot easier as project managers and IPM users.

February 3, 2011

The Workflow series – Making Purchase Order Approvals Simpler

By admin inMiree Le Roy

This is the third post in the Workflow series, showing you easy ways you can use workflows to enhance and automate IPM to suit your own business processes.

This week, I’m going to show you a workflow we came up with that can make the process of approving purchase orders simpler. In your organisation, you may have employees who are only authorised to approve purchase orders up to a certain amount, but anything over that must be approved by an employee with a higher approval limit, such as the project manager.

February 1, 2011

Failing to plan is planning to fail – tools to help plan for project success

By admin inMiree Le Roy

No doubt one of the great mantras used by project managers the world over is that failing to plan is planning to fail. I recently stumbled across a blog I haven’t seen before from the Project Management Institute and it’s got some really great posts by project management professionals from all over. My favourite post is quite a recent one from Jim De Piante about how project planning is the key to a successful project management career, and it got me thinking about planning and the tools we can use to ensure our plan’s success.