Derek Singleton

In the project management discipline, many look to the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) certification as a way to advance their career. Here we help you better the costs and benefits of this certification to give you a better sense of who should get a PMP.

For two months we surveyed the construction industry to create our 2013 Construction Project Management Benchmark Report. Our report discovered that construction project management software users are more satisfied with their system and deliver more projects on time and on budget than their peers.

Last year, we surveyed contractors, estimators, building owners and others about their estimating processes and the technologies they use to improve them. To start 2013, we’d like to know about your construction project management best practices. Help us development an industry benchmark report by filling out this survey.

Manufacturing was one of the first industries to support commercial software. And developments in the evolution of manufacturing software led to the software class known as enterprise resource planning (ERP). This post looks at the history of manufacturing software as well as important people, places and events.

The origins for what would become material requirements planning (MRP) software dates back to the 1950′s. This timeline notes important events, people and milestones in the evolution of MRP systems. In addition to looking at the history of MRP, we look at what the future holds for this application class as software moves to the Cloud.