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Nick Matteucci is the co-founder of VCSonline for web-based project management and is an accomplished speaker on the future of virtual teams.
Mr. Matteucci most recently sat on the board of directors for the largest IS/IT project management organization in the world (PMI ISSIG) as their Chief Technology Officer and blogs on the topic of virtual teams.
Mr. Matteucci enjoys running, all things automotive, and spending time with his wife and their three young children in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Nick Matteucci |
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Sunday, September 30, 2007 12:12 PM |
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Overview: An entertaining and eye opening look at
the world of web-based project management software, resource management software, the future of virtual teams, and what it takes to compete against giants - and win. |
By Nick Matteucci on
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:39 AM
The Boston Marathon.
Universally accepted as the premier distance course in the world and equally accepted as the pinnacle for any running career. It is something most runners (secretly or openly) covet when they think of their running goals. Last year I ran Chicago in 3 hours 48 minutes so thinking I could run a 3:20 marathon was a little more fantasy then reality.
Only very close friends and family knew how badly I wanted to reach this goal and how prepared I was to spectacularly fail trying! Here is my marathon story...
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By Nick Matteucci on
Thursday, October 01, 2009 9:19 PM
I believe resource, portfolio, and project management is going to continue to see decent growth in 2009 based on our CIO contacts and industry metrics. SaaS will make up the vast majority of this growth as traditional enterprise players rush SaaS versions out the door and established players continue to target the SMB market.
However – VCSonline new customers sign-ups has exploded. We are seeing an over 200% increase in new SaaS customers in the last 6 months, far outpacing even the industry darlings like Daptiv, Innotas, and @Task.
I will share something as to why I believe we are growing, hiring, and far outpacing the industry while competitors like Daptiv go through massive layoffs.
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By Nick Matteucci on
Friday, September 18, 2009 6:00 PM
With the economy struggling and companies tightening their belts we are starting to see more and more resumes of good project managers on the street.
Having been in the project management web-based SaaS software field for 10 years this seems like the 2nd time we have been through these challenging economic times. The good news for our company is in down times our software sales actually increase as companies invest in systems to automate and replace people. The sad part is knowing that is taking place and good people will be looking for work.
Well since we have no control over the Federal Reserve the one thing I can offer is a way to decipher the job postings they find so they know the "truth in advertising" behind ...
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By Nick Matteucci on
Friday, September 18, 2009 4:32 PM
VCSonline announced immediate availability of a .Net web-service that allows Microsoft Project 2003/2007 users to synchronize with the VPMi Professional SaaS project management software. The new capability further positions the VPMi Professional as a faster to setup, lower cost, and easier to use alternative to the Microsoft Enterprise Project Management (EPM) server and similar competitive offerings.
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By Nick Matteucci on
Monday, August 31, 2009 6:00 PM
Since 1998 we have sold enterprise (and now SaaS) resource, portfolio, and project management software. One of the most popular features has always been our weekly project and program status reporting tool where the project manager can set the Red/Yellow/Green health status of schedule, scope, resources, budget, and overall project.
What is scary (to me) is that many of our customers want to “over-ride” the Red, Yellow, Green indicators and take health status reporting away from the project managers.
I agree with setting some threshold guidelines around the dimensions of resources, scope, budget, and schedule. I don't believe they should be cut and dry rules that automatically place the project status. Let me explain.
For example th ...
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By Nick Matteucci on
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 6:00 PM
Let me begin with a disclaimer. I live, eat, and breathe project management software. Work wise, it is the reason for my existence (far as I can tell). I quit my job as an Ernst & Young PMO consultant 10 years ago to start a project management software company with no income, little in savings, and our first child ha ...
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By Nick Matteucci on
Friday, July 31, 2009 6:00 PM
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By Nick Matteucci on
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 6:00 PM
These days many people are talking about Software as a Service (SaaS). Software as a Service (SaaS) is the concept of instead of buying a server, buying server software, configuring said software, and keeping up with maintenance you simply pay a software service provider a monthly fee to deliver the benefit of the software over the Internet.
The advantages of this approach are:
• No large capital outlay (servers, enterprise software)
• No resource management issues (training staff to install and support software)
• No footprint on existing hardware (no software to install on desktops and no storage issues)
• Pay as you go and only as you need (you only pay for the people using the software and there ...
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By Nick Matteucci on
Thursday, June 18, 2009 6:00 PM
Q: When should a company use software as a service (per user/per month with hosted hardware and software)?
A: Whenever possible.
True story. Yesterday in St. Louis we had terrible storms and a tornado warning for downtown (very rare here). I was in the middle of a demo and ended up huddled in an interior hallway with the CIO talking about this very subject while we waiting for whatever would happen.
It was hard for them (very old company) to make the transition to SaaS but he knows that they must. He explained that resources were limited and no one considered it a career path to support someone else's software. The support costs are very high as vendors have to travel on-site and the support is slow. Then there i ...
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By Nick Matteucci on
Sunday, May 10, 2009 6:00 PM
Question: What is consuming 30% of your time that isn't even being tracked in your project management software?
I know you are probably thinking this is related to planning. People are always telling me how important project planning is ( and I don't disagree with them). Many top organizations spend a reasonable amount of time studying workplans, building methodologies, and standardizing on planning templates. Yet they report they are still regularly running over budget on their IT projects and can't figure out why?
The issue is issue management.
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