What it is (plain English)
Running projects and grouping them into portfolios: planning work (waterfall, agile, or hybrid), tracking progress and status, managing deliverables and milestones, and giving leadership a portfolio-level view of what's in flight and how it's going.
Problems it solves
- Projects tracked in disconnected tools (MS Project, spreadsheets, Jira) with no portfolio view.
- Status reporting assembled manually and always out of date.
- No consistent method across teams running different ways.
- Leadership unable to see the whole portfolio's health.
What must exist first
Platform Core Setup. Best fed by Demand Management (projects originate from approved demand); pairs with Resource Management for staffing.
What the customer needs to provide
- Your delivery methodologies (waterfall, agile, hybrid) and templates.
- Project/portfolio structure and how you group work.
- Status and reporting expectations for leadership.
- Existing tools to integrate or migrate from (e.g., Jira for agile teams).
Where it can go next
Resource Management staffs the projects; Strategic Planning aligns portfolios to strategy; Enterprise Agile Planning and test management extend delivery; timecards capture actuals.