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 ...

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...

Everyone engaged in project management is aware that this field is prone to different kinds of uncertainties. They all are diverse and unpredictable, though there are some that appear in every project...

It’s rather difficult to define what makes a project manager worthy of a dream position. Every company determines the role and the title differently, but no doubt tech giants serve as a benchmark. If ...

Multiple project management tools help organizations run concurrent projects from one system, but they do different jobs. Some give leaders a consolidated view of status. Some coordinate hand-offs, de...

Projects fail, that’s nothing new. But each project’s failure can typically be tied to a common reason, most of which can be prevented. Reducing the number of failed projects in your portfolio comes d...

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...

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...

Project portfolio management turns strategy into a set of investments; portfolio resource management determines whether that strategy is actually executable. For PMOs and portfolio leaders managing co...

Making sure that a company has enough resources to complete its projects successfully is one of the primary objectives of a resource manager’s work. However, it can be rather difficult to predict how ...

Resource management tools help organizations plan people and project capacity, assign work, and compare demand with availability. Their useful differences become clearer when two projects need the sam...

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...