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...

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...

Managing multiple projects is a uniquely challenging task because on top of regular project management workflows, you need to manage interproject dependencies and ensure an optimal resource load. A pr...

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...

For many organisations, the retirement of Microsoft Project Online will look like a straightforward software replacement exercise. The instinct will be to find a similar tool, migrate the data, and ca...

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...

Jira’s basic features perform well in managing projects, but once an organization hits certain growth goals, these functions become insufficient to accomplish strategic objectives. Projects need to be...

Managing multiple projects and programs simultaneously becomes more and more challenging for modern companies. Especially for large enterprises running hundreds of projects, it is extremely hard to co...

Modern project-based companies often face numerous challenges in coordinating multiple concurrent initiatives and resources involved in them. Moreover, the business environment quickly changes under c...

What if I tell you that in project management, predicting the future isn’t about magic or guesswork? It may sound weird, yet, that’s exactly what modern scenario planning tools can do.  They don’t wor...

Every project portfolio is inherently risky. Not only operational problems can arise during the process of execution, external factors like economic instability or natural disasters may disrupt portfo...

When an organization doesn’t have a clear way to prioritize projects in a large portfolio, either prioritization happens arbitrarily or every project seems equally important. This often leads to a cha...