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.

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.

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…

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? Learn how to get people to care about your projects.

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…

If 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.

This 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.

The 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.

PR Newswire Press Release on the Wall Street Journal: Navin, Haffty & Associates Chooses PIEmatrix

PieMatrix 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?"

IIL and PieMatrix 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 Pie project management software and portfolio application.

In Part 1 we introduced the 3 reasons why there are adoption failures for new software tools. In this Part 2, we help businesses reduce that gap with 3 helpful solution tips. Read how to reduce the adoption gap for applications.

Any product's success can be determined by user adoption. If they don't use it, it wasn't successful. Enterprise software faces this challenge every day. Millions are spent on the software and configuration only later to find that people don't use them.

Does innovation have to be the big game changer? What about the little changes that add up to big value? I call this "micro-innovation". Improving your projects and processes with many small inventions can get you to success faster than the big macro innovation solution.

Messaging features in tools are important. Consider using Pie or another collaborative application to talk with your co-workers about the work you’re doing. It increases the value of work flow and it also provides an archival history of past conversations.

Why do projects fail? Just google it and you will find over 400,000 results. Check out the famous Standish Chaos Report or Michael Krigsman's Why 37 percent of projects fail report. They point to these 2 common reasons...

We put together these 12 tips on how to improve your organization with best practices that businesses have used while adopting the Pie application. This can be used for any other process improvement vendor tool.

Today, we have a guest blogger. His name is Ken Signorello. Ken is the owner of Darkroom Gallery and a Pie customer. Ken talks about his challenges with his monthly artist reception events. Listen to how he solved his issues with Pie and started building repeatable processes for improving his monthly receptions.

In my last blog, we introduced the concept of Chaos, Order, Alive!, the three process maturity levels. In this post we reveal a step-by-step process on on how to move from Chaos to Order. I call it the Chaos Exit Strategy.

Free Dr. Harold Kerzner project health check process white paper and example in Pie. Project health checks are made to run over and over for critical projects.