Borland® Tempo™ comprises of a complete and centralized enterprise IT project management system that supports efficient and coordinated execution of myriad varieties of programs and projects. Borland’s project management facilities are optimal for:

• Managers with multiple responsibilities
• Managers without extensive formal training in project management
• Managers assigned on a part time basis to project management

The system provides all of the capabilities valued and used by experienced program and project managers to support project success in an easy-to-use and flexible format. Project planning can be done with automated scheduling, project participation and assignments. Reporting and planning at all levels can be managed and audited automatically and “one-minute progress reports” ensure that progress data in the system is always up to date.

Borland Tempo Enterprise Project and Program Management helps IT organizations:
• Deliver projects with better predictability and efficiency
• Ensure suitable steps are undertaken
• Improved visibility
• Reduction in time spent in meetings
• Spread best practices


Screenshot of a Project’s Work Breakdown Structure (Task List)


Program Management

The system enables projects to be managed at both the program- and project-level simultaneously. Program Management features allow IT projects to be assembled into and rolled up into programs with set policies for both program and project managers, driven in part by these relationships.


Project Planning

The system provides a comprehensive and hierarchical task-based work breakdown structure for planning projects with detail at each level. It provides capabilities such as, automated dependency-based scheduling, task templates, and batch task changes, integrations with Resource Management and Microsoft® Project synchronization.

Project Tracking

The system provides mechanisms for tracking progress and managing work, once projects are underway. These include prompted progress reporting, task expiration alerts, team member notifications and automatically calculated health, based on project baselines.

The following chart outlines Borland Tempo Project and Program Management capabilities by user:



Key Benefits of the system are:

• Improves accuracy through planned projects and reliable schedules and resource plans.
• High success rates through leveraged best practices in the form of templates
• Creates agility because the environment is well suited to evolving processes and introducing changes over time
• Efficient execution through reduction in time spent in meetings
• Reduction in execution error through automated coordination and communication
• Enables swift and apt reaction to changes, including dependency-based impacts

Screenshot of a Project’s Work Breakdown Structure (Task List)

Program Management

The system includes all of the capabilities needed to allow projects to be managed at both the program- and project-level simultaneously. Program Management features allow IT projects to be grouped into and rolled up into programs with policy set for both program and project managers, driven in part by these relationships.

Project Planning

The system provides a complete, hierarchical task-based work breakdown structure for planning projects at the appropriate level of detail. Capabilities include automated dependency-based scheduling, task templates, batch task changes, integrations with Resource Management and Microsoft® Project synchronization.

Project Tracking

Once projects are underway, the system provides mechanisms for tracking progress and managing work. These capabilities include prompted progress reporting, task expiration alerts, team member notifications and automatically calculated health, based on project baselines.

The following chart outlines Borland Tempo Project and Program Management capabilities by user:

Key Benefits

• Improves accuracy because projects are planned in more detail, so schedules and resource plans are more reliable
• Increases success rates by leveraging best practices in the form of templates
• Creates agility because the environment is well suited to evolving processes and introducing changes over time
• Enables more efficient execution by reducing time spent in meetings
• Reduces the opportunity for execution error by automating coordination and communication
• Enables more rapid and proper reaction to changes, including dependency-based impacts