Agora and Microsoft were pleased to host a panel discussion on Oct 20, 2010 of PMO leaders from the Ontario public sector including the Community Services Cluster, LCBO and the Labour and Transportation Cluster. These leaders fielded questions about using Project Management tools within their organi... [More]

In my previous post, Do emotions have a role to play in dashboard design? I discussed how emotions play a part in good design.  In this posting I’ll discuss how emotions would play apart in good design of a dashboard. As mentioned in the previous post, design can be broken into the aspects o... [More]

My background is both in engineering and usability. Functional design is very important to me. I’ve been educated to build things so that they work well for people. With the Business Intelligence practice I lead, dashboards and reports are an area I get involved in. Most times people are very satisf... [More]

If you have new information how will you run your organization differently? If you are not ready to make changes in your company, having new information will not contribute new value. You must be ready to break old habits. You must be ready to make new decisions based on the facts. For instance, ... [More]

This summer we had a BBQ with some visitors from Denmark. I knew the person growing up. She moved to Denmark (which is her family origins) about twenty years ago and has rarely been back to Canada since. My sister showed up with a drink she purchased on the way over. When asked what is was she said,... [More]

  Within the project management industry we often see people include “forecast status” as an element of project status reports along with current status and previous status. The expectation is Project Managers will include a status of what they think the status will be for the next reporting ... [More]

From inception through to deployment how efficient is your organization with its information about projects? As a project goes through its lifecycle a multitude of information is collected, stored and reported on. Often this grows organically as different groups involved in a project collect and sto... [More]

Do you need help getting your organization to stick to the facts? Is there lots of data in your organization but hesitation to share it? Be utilizing some Business Intelligence (BI) best practices these problems can be tackled. The power of BI is combining information from various data sources to... [More]