This short questionnaire is designed to test some of the key needs that organisations should consider when searching for a Project & Portfolio Management tool and provide an outcome that reflects your organisational reality.
MOT Your PPM Technology
Give your current Project & Portfolio management toolkit an MOT to find out what would work best for your PMO in your current reality. Wellingtone is a Microsoft Gold Partner with the PPM Specialisation, we provide Microsoft PPM Consulting Services to help organisations to work smarter through the Microsoft 365 platform and the solutions within it that enable the modern workplace, including but not limited to Microsoft Project Online, Project for the Web, Power BI and the wider Power Platform. Learn more here
Do you have problems or opportunities to address?
Do you have resource constraints?
Do your projects have a set lifecycle?
Do your projects go through Stage Gates?
Go back to the beginning as all companies have things they need to address. Click here for more details about the PMO Hierarchy of Needs
Do you complete detailed resource management?
Do you utilise the concept of programmes/portfolios?
Do you need to limit access to project information?
Project Online is the best tool for you, as it provides templates to accommodate your project lifecycles and detailed resource management like timesheets.
Go back to the beginning as all companies have things they need to address!
Do you need to manage and see day to day tasks?
Do you have Enterprise Microsoft licences?
Microsoft Teams is for you! It helps you to manage your and your team tasks with notifications, checklists, and notes.
You’re already a productivity ninja so use the technology you already have to add more structure to your day.
If you aren’t not using the Microsoft stack of applications, check your own provider and use one of their tools.
Do you use professional project managers?
Project for the Web is the best option as it is designed to appeal to those without much experience in managing projects.
Do you need financial control of your projects?
Do you utilise logs such as RAID?
Project Online is the best tool for you, as it provides a SharePoint collaboration site for everyone involved in the team.
Are you utilising multiple methods to manage projects?
Do you have set planning standards?
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As a Microsoft Gold Partner, we are able to provide a view on the Microsoft Power Platform and its PPM capabilities, so we have included the following in our analysis.
- Microsoft Teams
- Microsoft Planner
- Microsoft Project for the Web
- Microsoft Project Online
If you want to learn more about the individual technologies, you can click the links available in your result, and consider that a Project Portfolio Management maturity assessment is always a great way to get an independent perspective on your tooling and an opportunity to benchmark a PMO against others in the same industry.