Category Archives: Project Essentials

Financial Governance Made Simple

Posted on April 8, 2013 by

Readers of this blog are probably familiar in concept with UMT’s flagship product, Project Essentials.  You’ve probably heard the elevator pitch and are aware that it has something to do with financial governance.  Maybe you’ve seen the demos.  Maybe you’re … Continue reading →

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A Simple Archive Workflow Example

Posted on September 13, 2012 by

It’s a workflow kind of month, and I figured I’d post this quick article on how to leverage UMT’s Project Essentials 2012 with Project Server 2010 to generate a no-code archive process. In this case, the goal is to close … Continue reading →

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Project Management Systems vs. Accounting Systems

Posted on August 28, 2012 by

As many of you are aware, UMT has long been in the project financial governance space, and for the last several years has been proud to offer a tool that brings financial governance into the project portfolio management fold. Often, … Continue reading →

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UMT Project Essentials 2012 Public Availability

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

Just making sure you saw this latest announcement about our industry-leading financial analytics and workflow tool… http://umtblog.com/2012/05/29/announcing-the-public-availability-of-umt-project-essentials-2012/

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Developing with UMT Project Essentials

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

For those developer types working in the ever increasing number of organizations that have deployed our Project Essentials product – I wanted to make sure you saw Mircea’s post on developing custom applications against PE: http://www.ro.umt.com/blog/2012/05/08/developing-project-essentials-applications-using-wcf-2/

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From Strategic Outcome Management to Management of Outcomes

Posted on December 7, 2011 by

Another post in my process of digesting the outcomes of the recent PMO Symposium held in early November in Orlando…  As a result of attending this conference, I’ve been spending some time of late thinking about the nature of “strategy” … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Cost Abstraction (Part II)

Posted on December 2, 2011 by

In that last post, I talked about what cost abstraction is and claimed that it’s been going on in project management since times immemorial.  In this post, I’d like to take a look at why we practice cost abstraction, and … Continue reading →

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The Importance of Cost Abstraction (Part I)

Posted on December 1, 2011 by

Since time immemorial, projects have been estimated with a combination of top down and bottom up practices.  That’s just how things are and have always been.  And when people try to circumvent those processes, bad things are likely to occur. … Continue reading →

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You Want Workflow? We Got Workflow!

Posted on September 16, 2011 by

Check out our UMT software folks’ blog for the announcement of our exciting new product: UMT Workflow Designer. Link to the blog: http://www.ro.umt.com/blog/2011/09/15/umt-workflow-designer/ Link to the product site: http://www.umtworkflowdesigner.com/en-us/default.aspx Stay tuned to both that blog and this blog to keep … Continue reading →

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Project Financial Server Post-SP1 Hotfix Released

Posted on March 30, 2011 by

Figured this was as good an opportunity as any to dip my blogging toe into the Project Financial Server (PFS) waters… For those of you who are not familiar with PFS, it is a third party product that augments Project … Continue reading →

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