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...

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...

Most Planview alternatives replace one Planview product, not all of Planview, because Planview is a product family. Teams usually start looking because of license cost, implementation and admin effort...

Jira alternatives can replace issue tracking, coordinate business work, or add portfolio planning while Jira stays in place. For engineering issue tracking, compare YouTrack, GitLab, Azure DevOps Boar...

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...

Shipbuilding projects are extremely complex. But managing a portfolio of initiatives in this sector introduces a new level of difficulty – all of these complex projects share limited resources, infras...

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...

Risk management in 2026 is becoming more complex and taking on a more strategic and interconnected nature. Along with the new challenges, new risk management solutions arise that greatly improve the f...