FinancialForce PSA Tips

It’s been a couple of weeks since my last blog, did anyone miss me?  The main problem was workload, as you could have guessed, but I was also taking steps to prevent this from happening again.  How?  Well, we’ve hired ...

For many years I worked in an office environment.  Driving into the office each day, you have to make the decision of fighting traffic or arriving super-early to avoid traffic, and in some cases you don’t get a choice.  You ...

For many of us, this month (June) marks the end of the second quarter and provides a good look at how your company is doing mid-year against the revenue plan you established last fall or at the end of last ...

Average bill rate is one of the key metrics to managing your services organization.  With this metric, you can plan out revenue and staffing needs, measure your effectiveness of delivery, determine the impact on discounts, and forecast how your revenue ...

Change is never easy, especially to those everyday processes and actions that become patterns or habits in your life.  If someone moved the silverware drawer to the other side of the sink, how long would it take you to stop ...

Hello from England!  This week I’m visiting a few of my wonderful clients in London, England, which got me thinking about travel time policies.  Having worked for many organization including large government/defense contractors to small/mid-size commercial software companies, I must ...

I’ve been fortunate (or unfortunate, depending on your viewpoint on such matters) to be included as a reviewer on budget planning activities with various companies. Being the owner of a company, I’ve done my own budget planning for the fiscal ...

Summer is coming and this means many of your employees are planning their family vacations.  It’s also allergy season here in the Virginia area which has knocked quite a few people off their game with folks having to take time ...

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 and FORTRAN (dating myself a bit, I know) in industry. Then Object-Oriented languages took over ...

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 of productive time you can expect from an employee given a defined period.  Six hours ...