Over on PMHut, there is a semi-commercial post by Andrew Filev titled What Would an Ideal Project Management Tool Look Like? What's interesting at first is Andrew doesn't mention anything about “managing projects.”  Here's what I want a tool set to do: Provide easy development of the Master... 

In some organizations project management is seen as an unnecessary overhead or a burden on the business. Looking at the best practices of organizations where project management is the raison d’être can guide our search for best practices in your domain. Here’s one example of a successful project management approach.... 

Being cynical is part of being a Program Manager and even more so for a good Program Planning and Controls manager.It simply comes with the territory. When someone tells you something about the program, like “oh yea I've got all those Work Packages sequenced so we can meet the Critical Design Review (CDR)...