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...

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...

Focusing on simply delivering projects can lead a company to a place where productivity is commendable, but the actual achievement of business benefits is low. Strategic portfolio management (SPM) see...

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...

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...

A project management office (PMO) has a lot of responsibilities at any given organization, from portfolio rationalization to performance analytics. One of its crucial functions is resource management ...

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...

Research and development projects are unique because it’s hard to estimate their impact, yet without them an organization can quickly become irrelevant on the market. Managing the portfolio of R&D pro...

Resources are everything that a company needs to complete a task or project and achieve its goals. It can be anything from people to funds, and when you have to deal with shared resources across multi...

Do you know the real cost of project delays? For example, in the UK alone, government projects worth £200 billion are in red, which means that they are unfeasible, and plans are unachievable [1]. That...