July, 2012 | IPM Construction Management Software - Integrates with Outlook

July 30, 2012

Generation Y employees demand more collaboration in project teams

I have written a few posts on this blog before about the benefits and challenges of multi-generational project teams, and also the impact Gen Y employees are having on the workforce. But I recently came across an article Bill Patterson at Microsoft showing just what effect Gen Y is having on collaboration in the workforce.

July 17, 2012

How can project management software help with auditing and quality management?

By admin inMiree Le Roy

A couple of months ago, I posted a blog about how IPM can expand across organisations to fit a number of different departments. Well we’ve also had a few enquiries lately about IPM’s extensibility in terms of different requirements of project management. So I thought I’d share with you a couple of examples of how IPM can be extended to cater for other needs you may have on your project.

July 11, 2012

IPM joins the YouTube generation

By admin inMiree Le Roy

We are very pleased to announce that the revamp of our project management tutorial videos page is now complete! We have updated our tutorial videos to reflect the new features we’ve added recently and to show you how IPM is working with the CRM 2011 interface.

July 5, 2012

What the leap second delay can teach us about project management

By admin inMiree Le Roy

If you happened to be booked on a Qantas flight last Sunday, you would have felt the full effects of the seemingly insignificant ’leap second’. In order to bring electronic clocks back into sync after slight changes in the Earth’s orbit over the past four years, one second was added to the world’s clocks at midnight AEST on Saturday. And the result was chaos for air travellers. The extra second was enough to cause Qantas’s booking system to crash, causing delays of up to an hour for both international and domestic travellers.