Choosing a PPM Solution

  Portfolio Management   Strategy   ProjectsAtWork  

ProjectsAtWork has updated its PPM Software Evaluation Tool, a comprehensive set of questions and parameters to consider when selecting a project portfolio management solution. It’s a valuable guide to thoroughly analyzing your organization’s requirements and the degree to which the available offerings support the features that you care about.

It has been nearly a decade since Projects@Work published the first version of its well-received tool for helping to evaluate portfolio management software tools. A lot has changed since then. Technology has transformed. Software design has advanced. Our understanding of portfolio management has evolved. It is more critical than ever that organizations ensure they are making the right investment choices, that the projects that are chosen deliver successfully, and that the resulting business changes realize their intended value. These are decisions that can no longer be managed through a cascading series of spreadsheets. For most organizations, the adoption and selection of appropriate software tools is absolutely essential.

When we first published our PPM Software Evaluation tool, the idea of web-enabled technology was still fairly new (and the applications were somewhat primitive). The idea of cloud-based applications was, at best, a vision yet to be realized. Mobile technologies made possible by the smart phones and tablets …

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