With release 4.0.1, our incredible team is proud to share the next generation platform for model-based project design with a larger audience.
What's in 4.0.1:

• Formal release of Version 4, available to all GPD customers
• Significant refactoring of code to improve performance and reduce bugs identified in the preview release
• SYNC and REPORT -- for automated interchange with project models, forecasts, and spreadsheets -- updated

Along with the new application Design Walk, new Views and enhancements, the GPD team has also streamlined the fulfillment and Getting Started process.  New Getting started videos for Install and Overview created and added to a dedicated YouTube channel. HELP,  Job Aids, and Basic and Advanced tutorial updates.  Check out some of these at https://teamport.com/support 

We are also collaborating with leading universities around the world to offer full semester courses, short courses, workshops, and attractive educational license

GPD is very excited to announce the release of our fourth generation TeamPort platform.  We've worked hard to listen to our customers, update our technology  and architecture for extensibility in the coming years, and continue to innovate as the pioneer for model-based project management.
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This release is a preview release for our premier customers, including a new application for the platform, a new View in Designer, and other important enhancements.

• New: Design Walk application - tradespace views to compare multiple project models and forecasts
• New: Three Column View, to easily navigate the product, work, and organization structures
• New: Transaction change logs for improved undo and model comparison
• Enhanced: Matrix views now have zoom, auto-angled column headers, and copy view to clipboard
• Streamlined: Java no longer required on a user system. We still develop in Java and JavaFX, yet provide the modules needed as embedded in our application, imrpoving ease of installation and security.
• DB Transition: from mySQL to MariaDB, consistent with our commitment to standards based open source software.
• Database engine  updated for improved resilience and performance

​... and many more.

Bryan Moser, founder of GPD, recently edited a new book in partnership with the Project Management Institute's Brightline Initiative and MIT's System Design and Management.

Based on research, papers, talks, and workshops at an event in 2018, the book examines the research and practices which expose the growing gap between the strategy function of firms and project implementation.

Model-based project management leading to Project Design was highlighted in discussions and hands-on workshops.

The book can be downloaded at the PMI Brightline website: link to Brightline here.

The tradition continues in bringing regular updates which improve speed, usability, and new visualization during  model-building and simulation of complex projects.

This release makes some important architectural upgrades under the hood as we quietly prepare for the major Version 4 release expected next year, while at the same time adding features for user account self-management and increase in consistency check of models during multi-user project editing.

A model-based project design workshop using TeamPort was held at the CESUN 2018 (Council of Engineering Systems Universities), at Keio Mita Campus in Tokyo.  Participants successfully gained an introduction to using TeamPort, project models, and system thinking to improve a baseline project of an automotive development project. Participants included researchers from Japan, USA, Canada, Belgium, China, Korea, and England.

In February 2017 in Tokyo, GPD and GTL are supporting 2 events which will bridge the Boston and Tokyo AI and analytics community.

On February 4th, Saturday, GTL will host the 5th Global Teamwork Symposium at the U Tokyo Hongo campus.  Starting in the morning with hands on workshops from leading US and Japan A.I. innovators, the afternoon will including panels and speakers in response to 2 key questions:  how must enterprises transform to be ready for performance in a data rich world?  How must universities prepare the next generation of students and research?

On February 7th and 8th, a major industrial conference called "Big Data Analytics Tokyo" will be held at Roppongi Academy Hills. GPD's Dr. Moser will speak on the latest research strategies for business performance through teamwork analytics enabled by instrumented project design workshops.

On November 4th, as part of the Keio University SDM (System Design and Management) program,  Dr. Moser delivered a lecture and facilitated several business games using the Project Design and the TeamPort platform. A diverse group of students from around the world gained their first exposure to model-based systems thinking for projects.

The fourth GTL symposium leveraged GPD's TeamPort platform as part of a new research strategy on the instrumentation of teams and their problems across boundaries. Six teams collaborated and competed in a teamwork experiment, for the design and optimization of  the complex system engineering.  After the competition, the experience, path, and results of each team we analyzed and participants learned about Project Design deeply.

GPD's Dr. Moser joins a panel event at this year's Society of Aerospace Engineers conference:
  Panel:           Systems Engineering Educational Panel
  Venue:          SAE Aerospace Systems & Technology Conference, Hartford CT
  Theme:         Innovation in Propulsion Technologies and Intelligent Aircraft Systems
  When:           Thursday, September 29, 1:30pm

http://www.sae.org/events/astc/

Reinventing Innovation: A Systems-Based Approach to New Products, New Services, and a New World
September 28, 2016          Wong Auditorium, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Successful companies in every industry, from automotive and healthcare to high-tech and manufacturing, are using whole-systems approaches to understand, traverse, reimagine, and reinvent the entire innovation ecosystem. To support these efforts, MIT’s annual Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges, sponsored by MIT System Design & Management (SDM), will provide practical information from multiple industries to spark ideas for using systems thinking, integrated design, and management in your domain.
In advance of the conference, MIT faculty will lead back-to-the-classroom sessions on the afternoon of Tuesday, September 27, that will frame the three-fold nature of the whole-systems approach to design—technical, managerial, and socio-political­—and discuss ways of using it to address practical business problems.

The daylong conference on September 28 will feature MIT experts and industry leaders discussing best practices and lessons learned in a wide range of areas, including GPD's CEO Bryan Moser.

https://sdm.mit.edu/2016-mit-sdm-conference-on-systems-thinking-for-contemporary-challenges/