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What I learned in Grade School is changing

Technology changes rapidly in today’s world - not only devices but programming approaches and languages. I started my career as a programmer working in PL/I ...
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OpenAir Tracking Work Location for Services Delivery

It’s tax time and for many of us in the services world, we are working on computing how much services revenue was delivered in each ...
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Does the ‘man month’ metric still work in today’s world?

Early on in my project management life I read a book that described what a ‘man-month’ or ‘man-day’ is, which is paraphrased as the amount ...
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OpenAir ETC/EAC on Timesheets

NOTE: This tip is related to estimated and remaining hours which requires the feature ‘Enable “Hours Remaining” on tasks estimating feature’ to be enabled. Project ...
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Utilization – common term, uncommon definition

When I was going through school, I remember getting critiqued on my papers by using the word ‘use’ too much.   So I would work around ...
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Conditional Form Permissions

Did you know you can control form fields using Conditional form permission rules? Expanding on the form permission features throughout OpenAir, many of the forms ...
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Deleting Custom Fields

Did you know there's an easier way to delete custom fields? If you need to delete a custom field, you will notice that you may ...
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Form Defaults for Process Support

How form defaults helped me better introduce and manage processes One of the common challenges we see with bad project data is when fields are ...
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Grouping Expenses on an Invoice

Did you know you can create a Custom expense item to combine expense items on an invoice? The accounting structure for handling expense items in ...
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Take Control of Standard Field Names

Did you know you can customize invoice terminology per invoice layout?  As with many systems, the convenience of templates for documents like Invoices comes with ...
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