Every week a project waits for the same specialist team has a price. Cost of delay is how you put a number on it. Short answer: Cost of delay (CoD) is the expected economic value lost by delivering an...

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 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 mu...

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 choic...

Implementing new technology is an important part of business growth and one that allows organizations to greatly improve efficiency, increase revenue, and reach long-term goals faster. But measuring t...