Project Management August 31, 2021 8 Tips on Reducing Project Costs Reduction of project costs and at least avoiding significant cost overruns is one of the high-priority tasks for a project manager, as it helps to avoid unnecessary expenses and significantly impacts ...
Project Management August 10, 2021 Project Baseline Plan: How to Separate the Contractual Baseline from the Latest Forecast When managing a project, it’s hardly possible to stick to the original plan without making any changes to it throughout the entire project lifecycle. In most cases, changes are inevitable and even nec...
Project Portfolio Management October 14, 2026 The Project Financial Management Process: A PMO-Finance Workflow from Budget to Forecast The project financial management process is the governed cycle in which the PMO and Finance plan, approve, record, reconcile, forecast and act on the financial position of projects. It connects delive...
Project Portfolio Management October 13, 2026 Project Portfolio Management Metrics: 15 KPIs that Connect Delivery to Financial Outcomes 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, con...
Project Portfolio Management October 8, 2026 Project Financials Explained: Budget, Cost, Revenue, Penalties, and Profit 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...
Project Portfolio Management September 29, 2026 Planview vs Planisware: Start With Where Your Portfolio Breaks 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 poi...
Project Portfolio Management September 23, 2026 What Should a Project Portfolio Management Dashboard Show? 12 Decision-Critical Views 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 c...
Project Management September 22, 2026 Schedule Variance: Why a Green Schedule Can Still Hide Financial Risk Schedule variance is a specific project management metric that quantifies project progress by subtracting planned value (PV) from earned value (EV) at a reporting cutoff date. If you get a negative re...
Project Management September 21, 2026 Project Pipeline Management: How to Turn a Project List into a Decision Workspace Managing a delivery project pipeline is rarely a tracking problem; it is a decision-latency problem. Treat it as a static status report and new initiatives will almost immediately overload active comm...
Project Management September 16, 2026 Project Budget Management: Why Work-Hour and Monetary Budgets Need Separate Controls In multi-project environments that operate with a shared pool of scarce resources, projects can remain within their monetary budget and still damage portfolio performance. Monetary headroom does not s...
Project Management September 14, 2026 Project Cost Management: Process, Methods, and Portfolio Control Project cost management (PCM) is the discipline of planning how costs are governed, estimating required resources and money, approving and time-phasing a budget, measuring actual cost and progress, fo...
Project Portfolio Management April 17, 2026 Project Profitability Analysis: How Delivery Dates Change the Financial Picture What projects should you accept and which ones can you decline? Many companies take every project that comes their way, and that might be a good solution in some situations. But at some point, you’ll ...
