Keeping track of the daily minutiae of ongoing projects is a challenge in itself for the everyday office worker. But for John Kocon, the project management officer of the Information Technology Group (ITG) at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), keeping track of potential, current and future projects requires multitasking in almost supernatural proportions. Kocon and his colleagues at the Portland-based health and research university typically manage over 600 projects in various stages of completion. Until last year, Kocon and ITG used a homegrown Web-based project management tool to plan for and manage projects, but as the business needs of OHSU grew, the group found that the tool could not keep pace.
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