PPO targets Irish market with Trigraph

As part of the company’s strategy to grow its global footprint, Project Portfolio Office has joined forces with Dublin-based Trigraph Professional Services, to gain greater traction within the Irish market for its online project management and collaboration...

Why PMOs fail

The outlook for the project management office (PMO) may be considered, by some, to be bleak. According to the Association for Project Management, 50% of PMOs close within three years, with Gartner quoting just over the same percentage for the correlated PMO...

CPOs bridge project managers and boardrooms

A common lament from project managers is that they are responsible, held accountable, and yet hold no authority, says Yolandi Nortje, executive of Intuate Group. The introduction of a chief project officer (CPO) – an individual at the executive level, who is...

Agile testers must develop new mind-set

Testers have a vital role to play in the agile world, but in order to do so, they need to develop a distinct mind-set. Speaking at a workshop hosted by IndigoCube, Janet Gregory, a leading international expert in agile testing, outlined the characteristics of an agile...

Managing the application environment

Mobility is changing the way we work, the way we live and the way we play. The introduction of the smartphone in 2007 radically altered consumers’ expectations of what could be accomplished while on the go. Hundreds of millions of smartphones have been sold since...

Where are tomorrow’s software engineers?

The struggle to increase the number of graduating software engineers has been an on-going challenge throughout the last two decades. The Jo’burg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) director and head of Software Engineering at Wits University, Prof Barry...