If you have the desire to move up to a higher process and people maturity level for your portfolio projects, check out this webinar. It will introduce three levels of efficiency — Chaos, Order, and Alive!

A TED Talk explains that our schools have ruthlessly squandered our kids' tremendous talents. Unless we happen to work in a creative agency, organizations have continued the tradition of ruthlessly squashing creativity in adults. I believe that creativity now is as important in business as experience and knowledge.

We're pleased to announce that PieMatrix and Computer Aid (CAI) have entered into a strategic alliance. CAI will bundle our Pie project management application with their CAI ITBuzz business risk management suite. The combined solution will complete the business execution lifecycle from project execution to people feedback to real-time process improvement.

In light of this week's Independence Day celebration, I thought it would be fun to use a sprinkle of parody as a declaration of independence from the Kingdom of Microsoft.

There are hundreds of books and articles about personal productivity. To be honest, I may have read only a few even though I know I would benefit from them. Over the past year I have slowly improved my approach and it seems to work pretty good. Here are my personal tips...

What's the best way to team Pie and to implement Pie across your organization? Run it like a project in Pie of course.

You hear it all the time. “Small businesses create more jobs than medium to larger firms.” However, is that true? This article has the facts. Read the answer…

Which to invest in first: process or people? Many said to first invest in people and others said to first invest in process. I suggested in the discussion to invest in both at the same time. Or better yet, why not make the investment in human resource a process in itself?

The term "best practices" referred often. There can be best practices on finance planning, HR employ performance improvements, etc. Some argue best practices don't work. That's because the become stale and not improved.

PieMatrix will be exhibiting at the annual HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) conference in Orlando, Florida. Visit us at the HIMSS 2011 booth.

Defining an ROI for a project tool is not easy. The challenge is that it's hard to capture quantitative value. Qualitative value is easier, but a bit more fuzzy. However, I think I have found a way to do both.

We are pleased to announce an enterprise-wide contract with the State of Vermont government. The State's CIO office (enterprise PMO) has been a Pie customer for close to two years.

We often think of project management, portfolio governance, and project execution as doing a list of steps or tasks. The underlining work being done is really a process, which could be clunky or really smooth. Here's my question: what happens when we do our work one way compared with when we do it the absolute best way?

Project management software tools are missing the core basic of executing and governing best practices that ensure project success. Read this post to learn about what they are missing and what they should have.

Traditional project and portfolio tools show us what has happened. Historical knowledge can have its purpose. However, getting improved direction from history data can fail. The main problem is that the data usually doesn't contain the process, or best practice process. Learn about a better solution.

Banks are begging for more bail-outs and NPR is saying this recession may be as bad as the Great Depression. Okay, now what? Take three major actions to help survive the downturn.

The economy stinks and maybe your sales too. People get laid off and projects placed on hold. Many organizations are missing new opportunities. This is the time to take advantage of improving your processes.

Companies are tightening down budgets with cuts and freezes. Knee jerk reactions. Is that a good move? Maybe, maybe not. If the reaction is not thought through and implemented systematically, things could get worse in the longer run. I propose the strategy of getting new processes and procedures in place to ensure efficiencies.

Why are enterprise software tools hard to use? Why are their designs complex? Just because they have a lot of features, it doesn’t mean they have to be crammed. At Pie, we take a fresh approach with simplicity and sense of location even with a lot of features.

Pie launches beta at TechCrunch50. Thanks to our beta customers for feedback as we get started. We were able to participate in the "demo pit". We got great feedback from all those who stopped by our booth.