Project Portfolio Management

Effectively manage projects and resources across the enterprise

The Project Portfolio Management (PPM) component of Planview Enterprise® delivers unprecedented levels of visibility into and control of project portfolios, enabling you to efficiently prioritize work and make better decisions around request management, planning, and resource capacity.

Optimize Resources Enterprise-Wide

Proper resource prioritization requires a disciplined process, an understanding of business goals, and the ability to balance demand from multiple sources.

Planview Enterprise — Project Portfolio Management helps you balance portfolios to ensure that the most appropriate people will be assigned to do the right work. By managing work with portfolios, you can deliver the highest business value to projects across your enterprise.

Drive Productivity

Planview Enterprise — Project Portfolio Management helps you balance portfolios to ensure that the most appropriate people will be assigned to do the right work. By managing work with portfolios, you can deliver the highest business value to projects across your enterprise.

Manage Better with Better Views

The portfolio manager screen now has Read/Write capabilities, similar to those of the project manager screens, allowing for quick updates on portfolio status through the interactive, editable grid format. It also has enhancements to the Gantt chart and single project status reports.

Forecast, Baseline, and Manage Project Financials

Project budgets must be forecast, baselined, and managed throughout the project lifecycle. With Planview Enterprise, IT financial managers, the PMO and project managers can collaborate to better forecast costs and monitor spending through actual resource assignments and reported time. In addition, you can integrate with existing financial and account systems.

Mitigate Risks and Manage Changes

With Planview Project Portfolio Management, you have the tools to identify project requirements and manage the scope of work. Risks are known, and changes are minimized. The result: more visibility into how your project can stay on track and deliver real business value.

Planview Project Portfolio Management offers functionality throughout your organization, including:

• Planview OpenSuite for Microsoft Project — Ensure seamless data transfer between Planview Enterprise and Microsoft Project through fully-supported, two-way integration
• Request Management — Provide a single, centralized location where users can request work, check status, delegate requests and review lifecycles
• Project Management — Scope, schedule, execute work, and manage projects more effectively. Project management features address time reporting and billing, risk and issue management, work slippage, and resource capacity issues.
• Resource Management — Assign work efficiently, develop a skills pipeline, develop staff areas of interest and keep staff productive
• Portfolio Intelligence — Track and display performance and trend analysis information on work, resources and key performance indicators
• Time and Expenses — Better understand actual cost and value by tracking time and expenses against specific applications or projects. Quickly report time on multiple work items. The timesheet design update is shown in the screenshot below
• Changes, Risks, and Issues — Track and manage issues to discover the possible impact on schedule and cost, and generate an approval cycle for any necessary changes
• Baselines — Leverage planned effort data to perform variances reporting as part of an earned value estimate
• Best Practices — Support PMBOK standards with Planview PRISMS® best practices