Gordon named Planview, Planisware, Monday.com, Wrike and Atlassian. We looked at those five and many more, from the heavyweight suites down to the free tools, to answer one question: is the Lean PMO Control Room a product, and at what price?
What each costs a large PMO in a year, how long it takes to roll out, what it does with AI today, what its own users complain about, and where we win against it.
Each bar is a product's estimated yearly price for a large PMO. The orange band is where our plans sit. Hover any bar to see how the estimate was made.
Left to right: how quickly a PMO gets value and how well it works with existing spreadsheets. Bottom to top: how far it goes on governance and on proving value. The top right corner is close to empty.
Each product is scored 1 to 5 from reviews, vendor material and pricing. Our position is our own judgement of the control room today, so it is a claim the pilot has to prove.
Darker means better for the buyer. Click any column to sort by it. Proving value is the weakest column across the whole market.
Each dot is one plan. The portfolio features a PMO actually needs are almost never on the price page. monday Portfolio, Wrike Pinnacle, Smartsheet Control Center and Jira Align are all "call us".
The average score of each group on each of the seven measures, with our control room in orange. Proving value and working from spreadsheets are where the market is thin.
Free project tools a PMO could pick up instead, how popular they are, and what their paid hosted plans cost.
Twenty things a PMO buyer checks. The ticks are the demo. The rest is the first year of product work.
Priced per office with unlimited viewers, because the VP and the steering committee mostly read. The pilot, Blueprint and retainer prices are the ones discussed on 23 Oct.
Gross revenue before partner shares, in three scenarios. Hover the bars and points for the client counts behind them.
Subscriptions on top, consulting below
Annual recurring revenue
Placed by how likely and how damaging each one is. Hover a risk for what we would do about it.
Click a row for features, AI, strengths, weaknesses, customers and every source used.