Epicflow Blog Category Page - Project Portfolio Management

Business value in project management is the expected contribution a project, or one phase of it, makes to the organization's financial, customer, operational, strategic, risk or compliance outcomes. Treat it as a testable hypothesis...

Project portfolio management metrics are the measures a PMO uses to check whether the portfolio is selecting valuable work, matching demand to the capacity it actually has, delivering predictably, controlling cost and risk, and...

A project can sit comfortably under budget while its delivery forecast quietly erodes its commercial value. When a shared specialist becomes the queue every project waits on, completion dates slip. If the contract ties...

Imagine the situation: you have three projects that are looking suspiciously perfectly green on paper, but still, somehow, form an impossible portfolio. All three projects are on schedule. Still, all of them require the...

Primavera P6 vs MS Project is often reduced to a question of project size. That misses the decisions that actually determine a good fit: who owns the schedule, how many people must work in...

Planview Portfolios is a strong starting point when your hardest problem is connecting strategy, investments, capacity and delivery across an enterprise. Planisware Enterprise is a strong starting point when complex project, product or R&D...

Most portfolio dashboards answer only “what is happening,” cluttering screens with historical actuals and lagging KPIs. But static visibility alone does not show leaders where intervention can still change the outcome. A decision-ready project...

The aerospace and defence industry is a space where giant  corporations manage multi-billion portfolios and deal with challenges that many other industries have the privilege not to encounter. With multi-year product lifecycles, hundreds of...

Portfolio and project management tools have similar features, but ultimately, some might be more suitable than the others for specific use cases. For many Smartsheet users, their current tool of choice is limiting, either...