Start Me Up

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This small startup firm used portfolio management software as an equalizer.

The Situation: Already battling tight deadlines and limited resources, a new company also faced confusion over processes and roles.

The Solution: A portfolio-wide view of projects, improving resource allocation and tracking, billing and reporting, and strategic planning.

Working for a start-up can be exciting and exhausting; entrepreneurial spirit often reigns supreme. But if you happen to be a project manager at a young company, the anything-is-possible approach can make a mess of the planning and prioritization process.

Ask Todd Treanor, program director for RMX, a Seattle-based company that provides software and services to the fuel and convenience retail channel.

"We had a whole bunch of new employees coming into the company at the same time with all these different ways of doing things from past experiences, and we hadn't gelled as an organization," Treanor says. "There was quite a bit of confusion and urgency because we already had some large customers who needed their projects done with tight timelines. There was role confusion; a lot of people have an entrepreneurial spirit and want to just get things done at any cost."

But as a young company trying to …

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