The trade-offs of virtual teams and products

An increasing number of projects involve team members from multiple locations – across cities, provinces, the country or even the world. Many organisations are using virtual teams in place of face-to-face teams not for logistics reasons, but rather for financial...

The future of software testing

It is an interesting time to be a software tester, as the speed at which technology is evolving means that the future is changing rapidly. Ruud Teunissen, who has been a passionate software tester since 1989 and works for Netherlands-based Polteq, told delegates at a...

No holy grail for mobile app development

We work in a fragmented, multi-platform mobile environment – none more so than in South Africa. Our market is heavily skewed towards older “feature phones”, although the major smartphone vendors are increasing their market share exponentially year-on-year,...

FOXit releases Project Server Report Pack

FOXit, one of South Africa’s fastest growing and most successful providers of project and portfolio management services, has refined its offering to businesses with the rollout of its Project Server Report Packs. This solution adds immediate benefit by offering...

Group Five sees improvements with PPO

In the five years since its implementation of Project Portfolio Office, an online project portfolio management (PPM) and collaboration application, Group Five has seen improved enterprise resource management and project prioritisation, a higher level of project...

Success in 2014 hinges on partnerships

The degree to which project management information systems will empower businesses to better cope with game changers like collaboration, mobility and the Internet of Everything (IoE) will depend on the ability of those systems to accommodate these technologies. The...