These articles are all written by Chris Vandersluis the president of HMS Software and are reprinted here with permission of their publishers. You'll find a link to the publishing magazine's Web site if one exists.

Chief Project Officer Magazine

• Leverage? Let's try structural tension, August 2005
• Where to start?, June 2005
• CPO in a BPR environment, April 2005
• The Human Factor, February 2005
• "I don't get no respect", October 2004

Project Times

• The Project Manager Salesperson, December 2008
• Shutdown project management, November 2008
• From small projects, large projects grow, October 2008
• Can EPM evolve out of the sum of the parts?, September 2008
• EPM in a Foreclosure Economy, June 2008
• Head for the Hills, May 2008
• The Electric PMO, April 2008
• Dashboard Redux, March 2008
• Serving up soft skills, February 2008
• It's all coming together, January 2008
• There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch, October 2007
• Chocolate or Vanilla, Fall 2007
• Commoditizing Project Management for the Mid-market, Summer 2007
• Project Manager Perspective, Spring 2007
• Data mining - Can you find gold?, Fall 2006
• EPM and tools for everyone, Winter 2007
• PPM and a whole new generation of acronyms, Fall 2006
• The Dash for Dashboards, Summer 2006
• Enterprise Project Management and Do it yourself, Spring 2006
• What's actually happening here?, Winter 2006
• That Elusive Proof of Concept, Fall 2005
• Gaming the Process, Spring 2005
• What does EPM mean to you?, Winter 2005
• Why I can't train you in 2 days, Fall 2004
• The Move to Solution Buying, Summer 2003
• Project Stage-Gating, Spring 2004
• Metrics management and Project Management, Winter 2003
• Multi-Project Management - who owns what?, Fall 2003
• Integrated PM System and the Project Maturity Model, Summer 2003
• Project Management and the Web, Spring 2003
• Getting Project Managers to Share and Executives to Prioritize, Project World Canada Spec. Ed. 2003
• Enterprise project management., Winter 2003
• Contract Management - One of the most overlooked areas in project management, Fall 2002
• A Stitch in Time!, Spring 2002
• Third Party PM tools and Why They Matter, Winter 2002
• Choosing Collaborative Project Management Tools, Fall 2001
• Collaborative Project Management - How to start Collaborating, Summer 2001
• Collaboration? Who's Collaborating?, Spring 2001
• The Movement Towards Collaborative Project Management, Winter 2001
• Integrating a Project Management Software System, Fall 2000
• PM System Training Wheels, Summer 2000
• Deploying Project Management Software - The Plan, Summer 2000
• Deploying a Project Management System, Spring 2000

Computing Canada

• Making the CPO part of the executive suite, December 2005
  A new movement to create a Senior Executive level post relating to projects is becoming very popular
• Scorecard source data needs standards, November 2005
  There's a huge movement towards Business Intelligence and data mining - but to do that with Project Management data, you've got to have good data to start with.
• Bypassing the dotted line, September, 2005
  How do you resolve the classic project manager's dilemma - lots of responsibility but no authority?
• Is it better to look integrated or be integrated?, July, 2005
  Should you look to an all-in-one solution or go with best-of-breed?
• Centralized or de-centralized project management, May, 2005
  Make a centralized PMO or leave PMs to work on their own?
• You've got to make it over the first hurdle in epm, March, 2005
  There is a minimal level of viable system to consider when getting an epm system started
• EPM means differen things to different people, January, 2005
  There are many perspectives to consider when designing an epm system
• Breaking down the epm business benefit, October, 2004
  How can you apply business analyst practices to your configuration of epm tools?
• Are you ready to do what it takes?, August, 2004
  It's an Olympic year and the parallels to epm deployment can be interesting
• Be sure the cure is what you want (Not published), August, 2004
  Taking on epm is an exciting project - but are you ready for the work involved?
• epm Stands for Effort Project Management, May , 2004
  You can't use project management tools without some kind of training
• Five degrees of excellence with project management maturity model, April 23, 2003
  Continuous improvement is a laudable goal for project management, but don't worry if you're only at Level 1
• Gaining agility in the mental gymnasium of project management software, March 12, 2003
  What many project managers need is not more training on complex software packages, but and easier-to-use program
• Managing your portfolio, December 12, 2003
  A gated approval process that constantly measures milestones can greatly improve a project's success rate
• Free at what price?, October 31, 2003
  Open source project software might mean you'll be trading licence cost for development and testing costs
• Post-Enron controls, September 25, 2003
  As the business climate forces better controls, vendors respond with products that offer better project tracking
• Who's keeping score?, August 8, 2003
  Scorecarding is a valuable exercise, and with the advent of automation, it's getting easier to measure up
• Time mismanagement?, June 24, 2003
  As CIOs struggle to get a firm handle on employee productivity, automated timekeeping may be a solution
• Microsoft's PM play, May 13, 2003
  With products in the enterprise project management and portal arenas, watch for a merged environment
• Back up to speed ahead, April 4, 2003
  Project management software's future can be unlocked by examining the trends of the past decade
• Integration nation, February 17, 2003
  Linking your ERP system and your scheduling tool doesn't necessarily lead to smooth sailing
• Toiling in the projects, December 13, 2002
  Enterprise project software has to work for everyone, not just the seasoned professional planners
• First Things First, October 25, 2002
  Enterprise project management provides a touch of sanity to what can be utter chaos in prioritizing projects
• Warning: Cutting project office is detrimental to corporate health, September 13, 2002
• Forget about features: it's really a solution-buy, July 26, 2002
• The Holy Grail of projects is available for the taking, June 7, 2002
• Collaboration and Project Management go hand-in-hand, April 12, 2002
• Microsoft makes project management waves, March 1, 2002
• Giving up on projects is hard, but necessary, January 4, 2002
• Plans are good, but execution often falters, December 14, 2001
• Project selection phase is critical before adoption, November 2, 2001
• Enterprise Software - To Integrated or Best of Breed, September 21, 2001
• Knowledge is your most valuable intangible asset, September 7, 2001
• It's back to the future for choosing PM software, August 10, 2001
• Tough Times? Look to Project Management, June 29, 2001
• Almost all pilot projects lack measuring metrics, May 18, 2001
• Project Management Software Shakeout, April 20, 2001
• Plead, beg, grovel, insist to get required resources, April 6, 2001
• Silo management shares little more than goals, March 9, 2001
• Path of least resistance is the root of all problems, January 26, 2001
• Integrated real-time project management - Myth or reality?, September, 2000
• Microsoft increases stake in project management, September, 2000
• Java gets a bit of a necessary rough ride, September, 2000
• Global perspective becames highly desirable, September, 2000
• Creating a new breed of software, August, 2000
• Go for the little victory, April, 2000
• Are we headed back to the IBM 360?!, March, 2000
• Core systems are Ok? - Time to look at secondaries, January, 2000

People on Projects

• Plays Well With Others, February 2004
  

PM Network

• Big Bang or Phased-in approach, June, 2003
  What's more effective? Creating the perfect process then deploying across the entire enterprise in a Big Bang or phasing-in a less mature process bit-by-bit?
• Unstoppable force vs. unmovable object, March, 2003
  With both Microsoft and SAP taking a newfound interest in enterprise project management, an all out battle between these software behemoths seems inevitable.
• PM Tool Divergence, December, 2002
  Should you implement an integrated project management system across the enterprise or go with the best of breed? Does this mean inventing the enterprise project management model all over again?
• What everyone wants, September, 2002
  - Just what makes enterprisewide resource capacity planning so difficult?
• Microsoft Enters the Upper Floor, June, 2002
  What impact will the latest version of Microsoft Project have on the project management software industry
• Analysis vs. Commitment, March, 2002
  Project management tools are fundamentally either analysis-based or commitment-based. Which one is right for you?
• Collaboration and Project Management Tools, November, 2001
• Service Required More Than Technical Skills, September, 2001
• PM Software in a Bear Market, June, 2001
• Device Convergence, March, 2001
• Enterprise pm software - the search continues, March, 2001
• Are we heading back to the dark ages?, March, 2001
• Deployability: A Key to Enterprise Project Management, July ,2000
• Web-based project management systems for Everyman, May, 2000
• "Batteries Not-Included", March, 2000
• Has CPM had its day?, January, 2000

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Publications

	PM Network PM Network is the professional magazine of the Project Management Institute. Published monthly, it is a key benefit of membership in PMI. PM Network articles cover industry applications; present details on how projects were managed and lessons learned from the project team experience; keep the reader up-to-date on project management tools, techniques, and practices; provide commentary on the industry, methods, and PMI; and offer software reviews, case studies, and organizational, legal, and other practical issues in managing projects. PM Network also contains letters to the editor, industry and people news, surveys, and Institute news to keep the reader informed of new developments in the field of project management.
	Plesman Publications Plesman is the publisher of Computing Canada and a number of other fine I/S oriented publications.
	Chief Project Officer Magazine
	Project Times
	The Center for Business Practices

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