Navigate Uncertainty with Confidence

Turn project constraints into strategic opportunities

As a project management professional in today’s unpredictable economy, you’re facing critical challenges that threaten both immediate results and long-term growth. Planview helps you take these challenges and turn them into opportunities.


“I can tell a director within a matter of minutes how much money they have, what their budget is, where they’re trending, and where they’re tracking. I can tell them…whether they’re in trouble, they’re headed to trouble, or whether they underspent and could get money back.”

—Marea Herrington

Director of Planning/ Governance, Technology Administration

Tractor Supply Company

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8 challenges you face today and how Planview solves them

1

Delivering results with significantly reduced resources

Your challenges:
  • Managing projects with significantly reduced human and financial resources
  • Struggling to match available skills with critical project needs
  • Lacking visibility into true resource capacity across project portfolios
  • Unable to accurately forecast resource requirements for upcoming work
  • Facing pressure to deliver the same outcomes despite team reductions
  • Difficulty balancing resource allocation across competing project demands
Planview delivers:
  • AI-powered resource optimization that intelligently allocates limited resources across projects
  • Real-time visibility into resource utilization, identifying overallocations and skill gaps
  • Capacity planning tools that forecast resource needs, preventing burnout and helping manage workloads
  • Resource scenario planning to determine optimal staffing models under various constraints
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Planview’s Resource Management Capabilities

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2

Maximizing value delivery with constrained budgets

Your challenges:
  • Maximizing value delivery with reduced budgets
  • Difficulty tracking actual spending against shrinking allocations
  • Unable to forecast potential budget overruns before they occur
  • Struggling to evaluate financial trade-offs across project decisions
  • Missing visibility into resource cost implications of project changes
  • Lacking tools to demonstrate financial accountability during constraints
Planview delivers:
  • Project financial management that tracks actual vs. planned spending in real-time
  • Earned value management to assess project performance against financial goals
  • Cost scenario modeling to evaluate different execution approaches
  • Financial forecasting to identify potential budget issues before they occur
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3

Navigating constant project reprioritization and uncertainty

Your challenges:
  • Dealing with constant reprioritization and project cancellation anxiety
  • Lacking objective criteria to determine which projects should continue or pause
  • Unable to predict the ripple effects of changing project priorities
  • Struggling to communicate priority shifts to stakeholders and teams
  • Missing data to support difficult project selection decisions
  • Facing political challenges when deprioritizing certain initiatives
Planview delivers:
  • Objective scoring frameworks to evaluate and rank projects based on strategic value and resource requirements
  • What-if scenario modeling to assess the impact of changing priorities before implementation
  • Portfolio visualization tools that show the consequences of reallocating resources across projects
  • Streamlined project intake processes to evaluate new requests against existing commitments
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4

Managing scope and timeline expectations under pressure

Your challenges:
  • Managing scope creep and compressed timelines with fewer resources
  • Struggling to maintain quality standards under accelerated deadlines
  • Difficulty setting realistic timeline expectations with stakeholders
  • Lacking visibility into the impact of scope changes across project dependencies
  • Unable to determine which scope elements could be modified with minimal impact
  • Missing objective data to support timeline and scope decisions
Planview delivers:
  • Robust scope management capabilities with change impact analysis
  • Automated critical path analysis to identify schedule risks and optimization opportunities
  • Timeline scenario modeling to determine realistic delivery dates given resource constraints
  • Efficient change request workflows with appropriate approval gates
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Planview’s Project Portfolio Management Solution

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5

Preventing team burnout while maintaining productivity

Your challenges:
  • Managing team burnout while maintaining productivity
  • Unable to identify early warning signs of unsustainable workloads
  • Struggling to balance urgent delivery needs with team wellbeing
  • Difficulty optimizing work distribution across team members with different skills
  • Missing visibility into cross-team collaboration opportunities
  • Lacking data to justify additional resources or timeline adjustments
Planview delivers:
  • Workload balancing tools to prevent team overallocation and burnout
  • Capacity utilization analytics to identify when teams are approaching unsustainable workloads
  • Skills-based resource matching to ensure people are assigned to appropriate work
  • Cross-team visibility to identify opportunities for collaboration and knowledge sharing
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6

Setting realistic stakeholder expectations in challenging times

Your challenges:
  • Navigating stakeholder disappointment when project outcomes must be scaled back
  • Lacking effective tools to communicate changing project realities
  • Difficulty maintaining stakeholder confidence during project adjustments
  • Unable to provide consistent information across different stakeholder groups
  • Missing data to support difficult conversations about scope, timeline, and resource trade-offs
  • Struggling to maintain executive buy-in when project parameters must change
Planview delivers:
  • Automated status reporting with customizable dashboards for different stakeholder audiences
  • Data-driven conversations about trade-offs between scope, schedule, and resources
  • Visual roadmaps that clearly communicate revised timelines and deliverable expectations
  • “Single source of truth” for project information, reducing confusion and misaligned expectations
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Planview Roadmaps Capability

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7

Maintaining quality standards despite delivery pressure

Your challenges:
  • Forced to compromise on quality to meet accelerated deadlines
  • Difficulty identifying which quality elements are truly non-negotiable
  • Missing early indicators of potential quality issues in accelerated projects
  • Lacking frameworks to make informed quality-versus-speed decisions
  • Unable to evaluate the long-term implications of quality compromises
  • Struggling to maintain organizational standards during crisis periods
Planview delivers:
  • Integrated risk management tools to identify, assess, and mitigate project risks
  • Quality checkpoint integration into project plans to maintain standards despite pressure
  • Automated alerts when quality metrics fall below acceptable thresholds
  • Lessons learned capture to improve future project execution despite constraints
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8

Advancing professional growth despite limited opportunities

Your challenges:
  • Worried about career progression as project opportunities become limited
  • Difficulty showcasing individual impact during constrained project environments
  • Lacking visibility into skill development opportunities within existing work
  • Unable to identify potential growth paths during organizational belt-tightening
  • Missing data to demonstrate the value delivered despite limited resources
  • Struggling to maintain team engagement when advancement seems limited
Planview delivers:
  • Tools for project managers to demonstrate quantifiable impact through performance metrics
  • Visibility into project contribution and value delivery across the organization
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Transform How You Navigate Uncertainty

With Planview, you gain the power to:

  • Make confident, data-driven decisions even in volatile markets
  • Optimize costs while protecting strategic investments
  • Allocate resources where they deliver maximum value
  • Minimize risk through improved visibility and early warnings
  • Adapt strategy quickly when market conditions change
  • Provide unprecedented transparency to stakeholders
  • Break through decision paralysis with actionable insights
  • Retain the talent essential to your future success

Don’t just survive economic uncertainty—make it your competitive advantage. Contact us to learn more about how Planview can help you thrive in today’s unpredictable economic environment.

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