You may think that the best PPM software is the one that fulfills all 150 of your requirements. It’s not true; we have seen companies create a long list of requirements and select the solution that best fit those requirements only to go on to waste hundreds of thousands of dollars and scrapping it later because users did not like the solution. Usability and adoption are king.

In this guide we will give you some straight talk to help you consider the important factors when selecting portfolio management software including:

• Organizational maturity
• Usability (versus complexity)
• Cost to implement (value gap)
• Capabilities (to avoid unnecessary complexity)
• Organizational change
• Portfolio management expertise