CHICAGO – While blogs and discussion boards were filling up with complaints of the availability of their 37Signals Basecamp accounts the management team at 37Signals launched a publicity campaign to head of the criticisms by touting the vaulted "six 9’s" availability of their book Getting Real.
 

"Sure we have a few days when the application is unavailable" said 37Signals and Basecamp CEO Stan Wilson "but you have to look at the big picture.  We also sell millions of copies of Getting Real which is available 99.999999% of the time!  Accept for the time we couldn't find it when someone ... Read More »

SEATTLE - Recently the InfoWorld published their list of "Tech's all-time top 25 flops".  When the bodies were counted, the worst software flop of all time went to Vista.  There to accept the InfoWorld Golden Floppy award was Microsoft's very own Bill Gates, who gave all the credit to Microsoft Project EPM Server 2007. 

"With Vista the slogan right from the start was 'we brought the personal computer into this world, and we can take it out.'" stated Gates fighting back tears during his acceptance speech.  "When it comes to project management we couldn't find our way out of an empty room but we couldn't take Vista's failure for granted.  We looked at ... Read More »

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - In recent months, an alarming number of Intuit Quickbase project management software users have become frustrated.  Apparently during typical use the software stops allowing new records and locks accounts until they contact customer support and beg for more records.  Initially, Quickbase apologists explained the locks were in order to keep the "Quick" in Quickbase.  Now, in a stunning turn of events Quickbase has adopted the stance they are the first project management software company to go Green.
 

"This year we cranked up our marketing engine to position Quickbase as enterprise ready" explained Quickbase President Brad Conner while on board the company Lear Jet, "well as luck would have it some people actually believed us and ... Read More »

DETROIT --Industry watchers have learned that after 10 years in the enterprise project management software business the independent research firm Forrester will recognize the VCSOnline VPMi as a leader in the Project Portfolio Management software market, just as soon as their check clears the bank.  The move is not a moment too soon as research firms have seen sagging revenues and perceptions of favoritism to the software companies that spend the most advertising with them.

"This looked to be a validating moment" said VCSOnline Partner and Co-Founder Nick Matteucci.  "I mean, we were implementing web-based project portfolio management solutions in 1998, long before their was even a perceived market.  ... Read More »

Seattle -- In a stunning move that caught many industry analysts and customers off guard, eProject announced last week they are changing their name to f-Project in a an apparent bid to increase the overall project management software experance.  The move is part of an international strategy to position the company for dramatic growth.

"We really went back to the blackboard to get the idea" said eProject President, Brad Fisher who is heading up the communications campaign.  "We knew we had gone as far as we could go with the 'e' and apparently someone else is using the 'i' so we figured that the next step in our evolution was an 'f', and there you have it!  Take that Microsoft!  By the way thanks for the blackboard chum ... Read More »

I put a dollar in one of those change machines.  Nothing changed.
~George Carlin

I am always amazed by how undervalued culture change management is within corporate America. 

To illustrate this point here is a true story...

Not too long ago we were invited to setup a booth at an internal company trade show.  We were excited for the opportunity to meet with our many end users and the Project Management Office (PMO) director was our host and our sponsor.  I brought my fancy digital camera so I could take a lot of pictures and mayb ... Read More »

Do any of you have small children? 

Even if you don’t you would have to have been living in a cave to not know Barney the purple dinosaur who delights kids with his lessons of cleaning your room, taking turns, and being politically correct. 

At the end of every show Barney breaks into the Sinatra-esce ballad we all know “I love you, you love me, we’re a happy family”. Kids love it, but most parents have an involuntary stomach sickness when we hear it -- it haunts me in my sleep.

You know why Barn ... Read More »