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 ...

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 it, what th...

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...

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...

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...

The best Planview alternative depends less on how many Planview features another platform can reproduce and more on what is actually limiting your portfolio. Planview spans strategic portfolio managem...

A company’s strategic goals are big-picture ideas. Those ideas need to be pursued through specific measurable actions to be realized. This is what operational planning does: finds a way to achieve one...

Microsoft Project Online is retiring on September 30, 2026. After that date, organizations will no longer be able to access Project Online or the project data stored inside the service. For PMOs, CIOs...

Capacity planning is a high-level resource management technique that can improve resource utilization and planning capabilities across multiple projects and help it achieve more with less resources. S...

An average enterprise typically has more products and product ideas than investment funds. The question that lies before leadership is how to distribute the investments to reach more market share, mor...

In larger companies that have a large pool of distributed resources and execute multiple projects simultaneously, scheduling resources without running into performance issues can be a struggle. A stru...

Microsoft’s decision to retire Project Online has left many organizations searching for Microsoft Project alternatives. But what if we look at this not only as a forced migration but as an opportunity...