Vendor Landscape: Mid-Market Project Portfolio Management
Collaboration meets project portfolio management.
- Business simply doesn’t happen in a perfect, orderly, predictable way. Organizations need the right tools to manage the uncertainty.
- Accurate tracking of projects and resource management can be an issue for organizations as time-sheet data is often inaccurate or unreported.
- A robust system that is capable of managing reactive work and the impact that these "interruptions" have on the project timeline is needed.
- Note: Effective January 22, 2015, AtTask has changed its name to Workfront.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- End-user adoption means having up-to-date information in terms of progress and is crucial for PPM success. PPM solutions are adding features to increase adoption rates, including social UIs and integration with email.
- Don’t expect the adoption of time logging unless it solves a problem or adds value for an employee directly. The best mid-market PPM solutions empower people with the means to collaborate and manage their own work more autonomously.
- Good PPM solutions are able to align to existing organizational processes and cultures. The ability to support the Agile method is a way in which PPM solutions are moving in this direction.
Impact and Result
- Understand today’s mid-market PPM space, where it’s going, and what the leading vendors are doing.
- Evaluate and select the solution best suited to your organization’s unique project portfolio management needs.
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