Compuware, HP expand PPM range

Compuware and Hewlett-Packard, two suppliers of project and portfolio management software, unveiled significant upgrades to their PPM product lines this week, says ChannelWeb.

The announcements follows a new PPM market forecast from the Gartner market research firm that spending for PPM applications, which reached $1.3 billion in 2008, will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 12.6% over five years to reach $2.3 billion in 2013.

The Compuware announcement and Gartner forecast were among the news generated this week at Everything Channel's Project and Portfolio Management Summit in Garden Grove, California.

Storyist Software has updated its story development tool, Storyist, to version 2.0, states PC World.

The program, which features word-processing and organisational features, now adds a new "collage" mode to help visualise connections between story elements, a full-screen view, multiple windows, and support for comments and bookmarks.

Other changes in Storyist 2.0 include a colour-coded outliner, support for images in documents, and an improved project manager for mapping out story ideas.

Learning Tree International has added two new courses to its project management curriculum, reports Welt.

Entitled Recovering Troubled Projects and Agile Project Management with Scrum respectively, both courses utilise Learning Tree's proprietary RealityPlus instructor-led training methodology.

Learning Tree will begin presenting Recovering Troubled Projects in London, England in July and in the US in August.