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Trends in Project Management & Project Controls
Top 10 Project Manager Challenges
Project managers know their jobs can be extremely rewarding, but as projects become more complex their roles can become very demanding and frustrating. These complex projects require hard work, long hours (and countless coffee refills!), and an exceptional amount of...
How to Accurately Measure Project Progress
Introduction: Is it best to report on the progress of engineering work on a project using solely a Critical Path Method (CPM) schedule? It's certainly possible to do so, but it is just not practical— Creating, in some cases, hundreds or thousands of activities,...
How To Choose the Right Pilot Project for New Software
When implementing project lifecycle management software, like ARES PRISM, it is a common practice to select a pilot project that represents a cross section of characteristics likely to be encountered. There are a number of reasons and purposes for this piloting...
Transforming Your Business with Executive Dashboards
Data visualization through a powerful executive dashboard tool helps you take business analytics to the next level. Not only are you able to reveal hidden trends and identify risks, but you can also visually display executive dashboards for multiple projects for all...
A Year in Review: ARES PRISM 2019
Another great year of helping our customers achieve project management success with ARES PRISM is coming to a close! Check out our biggest achievements and proudest moments of 2019! For Our Customers: 24/7 Customer Support We launched 24/7 ARES PRISM customer support...
6 Reasons Your Organization Needs Project Management Software
Some projects fail; that’s just reality. A survey conducted by PwC found that more than 60 percent of project failures are linked to internal project issues (e.g., missed deadlines, insufficient resources). In fact, the top three reasons for project failure — bad...
Change Management in Project Management
Change management in project management is the controlling or managing of any deviation (or change) from the project plan that is in action. Change management, also known as change control, is the process of tracking and reacting according to the changes that are...
Societal Benefits of Infrastructure Projects
ARES PRISM has been utilized on many major infrastructure projects across the globe, including mega projects. One of the things we love more than helping our customers stay on schedule and on budget are the benefits projects like these bring to society. Take our...
How Major Industries Are Digitizing Project Management
The ways in which major industries are digitizing their project management varies from one to the next, but they are all shifting over to digital processes and transforming the way their companies operate for the better. There are many challenges industries are...
How To Improve Project Management Maturity
Organizations are always looking to advance their project management maturity levels, but sometimes the mindset is one of "We are already behind, and since systems are not already in place, we're too late." While many organizations have learned that it is often far...
Timesheet Tracking Coming to ARES PRISM’s Cost Management
It’s about time! ARES PRISM is partnering with HMS Software to bring customers an integrated cost management and timesheet solution with TimeControl. Our enterprise cost management module will be equipped with HMS Software’s enterprise TimeControl timesheet software....
10 Reasons to Use Time-Phased Budgets Instead of Cost-Loaded Schedules
First, let's do a quick recap of why we use Time-Phased Budgets and Cost-Loaded Schedules and the various differences between them. In project management, Time-Phased Budgets and Cost-Loaded Schedules are both methods that can be used in the creation of a Performance...