Planview Portfolios review

Planview Portfolios has the deepest portfolio feature set on this list, which is why it scores highest on features, but it ranks ninth once ease of use and price transparency are weighed. It connects strategic alignment and OKRs to roadmaps, investment prioritization with what-if scenarios, and financial planning with budgeting, forecasting and cost and benefit tracking. Demand management gathers requests from early ideas to formal project proposals, and capacity and scenario planning compare staffing, timing and funding options before work is approved. On the delivery side it adds program management, agile team planning, forecasts against actuals, timesheets for project and non-project work, and process automation, with support for Lean-Agile, collaborative and waterfall delivery. The drawbacks are typical of strategic portfolio suites: pricing is by quote, rollout usually needs a structured implementation, and contributors who just need a task list may prefer a lighter tool connected to it.

Who it is for

Enterprise PMOs and transformation offices that fund, prioritize and track hundreds of projects and programs.

Price

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Key features

• Investment prioritization by business drivers with what-if scenarios
• Financial planning with budgeting, forecasting and cost and benefit tracking
• Demand management from unstructured ideas to formal project requests
• Capacity and scenario planning across people and money
• Program management, agile team planning and timesheets for project and non-project work

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Covers the full cycle from strategy and OKRs to funding and delivery
• Strength: Supports Lean-Agile, collaborative and waterfall delivery in one portfolio
• Strength: Incremental funding at program, product, epic and feature level
• Weakness: Quote-only pricing
• Weakness: Implementation is a larger project than self-serve work tools
• Weakness: Day-to-day task collaboration is less approachable than Asana or monday.com

Key facts

• Former name: Planview Enterprise One
• Delivery methods: Lean-Agile, collaborative and waterfall
• Goal framework: Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)
• Pricing: By quote

Where it ranks

Planview Portfolios is No. 9 in our Best Project Management Software for Enterprise verdict and No. 8 in Best Project Portfolio Management Software.