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February 2011 - Posts

• ICU Medical Benefits from Project Management Software Project Insight

  Irvine, Calif., February 15, 2011 - Online project management software, Project Insight helps ICU Medical to ensure projects are completed efficiently as the company expands and grows. ICU Medical is a medical device company located in San Clemente, California that is best known for the CLAVE, the first one-piece, closed NeedleFree connector and is currently the number one connector sold worldwide. CHALLENGES The program management department at ICU Medical works within the research and development (R&D) division. Research and development manages the development of new products from the concept stage all the way through production. The medical device industry has strict guidelines that must be followed, which includes accurately tracking time on projects. Before, ICU Medical had a cumbersome manual way of tracking project time and resources. With a team of four project managers in California and about 12 engineers in Utah, the team at ICU Medical typically works on a list of approximately 40 projects at any given time. There was no visibility between the various project teams, which led to project redundancy. SOLUTION ICU Medical's program management team needed a solution that would: Be web-accessible and easy to learn Provide a central place for visibility into all projects, company-wide Enable time tracking and resource allocation Project Insight's flexible features have allowed the team at ICU Medical to add their own categories for projects and to generate custom reports. "One of the things we especially like is the ability to customize, to tweak and modify things," Joe Isaac, Manager of Program Management at ICU Medical notes. RESULTS Today, ICU Medical utilizes Project Insight's powerful resource allocation reporting to manage resources effectively. The detailed time tracking features have also made it easier to accurately track hours put against each project. Having all projects accessible online has made collaboration among the different teams easier and more productive. Now a long-time customer, ICU Medical with the help of Project Insight, online project management software, has developed a productive working relationship with Project Insight and their developers. About Project InsightTM Project Insight, web based project management software, is powerful for project managers, easy for everyone. Project Insight 9.0 offers three editions for flexible, scalable project management, hosted Workgroup, Professional and Enterprise. An on-premise or installed option is available with the Enterprise edition. Project Insight project management software follows Project Management Institute, Inc.'s (PMI) standards, and is compliant with the PMBOK® Guide (A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge). Posted Feb 15 2011, 08:33 AM by Janelle.Abaoag with no comments Filed under: web-based project management software, project management software, resource allocation, time tracking

• Project Management Software Project Insight Launches IT Methodology Training

  Irvine, Calif., February 1, 2011 - Project Insight, project management software provider, announces the launch of eleven new Information Technology (IT) Methodology training webinars. These training sessions are of no charge to the public. Project Insight now offers over 180 unique webinars. The IT Methodology training webinars are offered in partnership with QAIassist, an industry leader in providing businesses with cost effective "IT Efficiency" solutions. The webinars are offered once a month until November 2011. Topics for each webinar will address both the project management and software development lifecycle. Cameron Watson, President at QAIassist says, "I am looking forward to delivering the QAIassist Integrated Methodology webinar series - the series has been designed to provide stakeholders, business users, and IT practitioners an understanding of an integrated IT methodology and how it can be scaled and leveraged to help them better deliver and maintain their products, projects and business applications." "As many Project Insight customers are IT departments or project management offices (PMOs), we want to provide more training for their project team members. We firmly believe that the better educated our customers are, the more efficient they will be as a team and the more benefits they will realize from our project management software," stated Cynthia West, Vice President of Project Insight. IT Methodology training webinars and topics for the first quarter includes: Organizational Audiences - Roles & Responsibilities Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PT Project Management - Nomenclature Wednesday, March 16th, 2011 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PT Project Management - Fundamentals Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM PT   View the complete webinar schedule and register today! About Project InsightTM Project Insight, web based project management software, is powerful for project managers, easy for everyone. Project Insight 9.1 offers three editions for flexible, scalable project management, hosted Workgroup, Professional and Enterprise. An on-premise or installed option is available with the Enterprise edition. Project Insight project management software follows Project Management Institute, Inc.'s (PMI) standards, and is compliant with the PMBOK® Guide (A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge).     Posted Feb 01 2011, 02:07 PM by Janelle.Abaoag with 2 comment(s) Filed under: project management software, webinars, training, IT methodology