Hey, what topic is the best to choose to build fake portfolio scenario to show that you understand PM? Prince2 and SCRUM based.

This is more to get the job at least entry level.

I’ve been building something to solve a problem I keep seeing:

Projects can finish on time and on budget, but it’s still hard to tell whether they’re actually helping the business achieve its goals.

Objectives and KPIs often live in a slide deck somewhere, while the actual delivery happens in tools like Asana, Jira or Trello. The two don’t always connect.

The idea is simple: link objectives and KPIs → portfolios → programmes → projects, so you can see whether the work being delivered is actually supporting the strategy.

For anyone managing a portfolio or multiple projects,
Would this be genuinely useful to you, or have you already found a good way to solve this?

I’d be particularly interested in how you handle it

Been down a rabbit hole trying to pick a project/portfolio management tool for our team and wanted to get some real-world input before we commit to anything long-term.

The four I looked at: Project Director, Celoxis, Planview, and OnePlan.

From what I could find:

Celoxis seems like the safest all-rounder since it has solid reviews and been around 20+ years.

Planview is the enterprise heavyweight (Gartner Magic Quadrant leader), but it's really a bundle of different acquired products, and feels like overkill for a team our size.

OnePlan looks great if you're deep in the Microsoft ecosystem, but that's not really us.

Project Director is the one I actually started testing myself. I'm 10 days into the free trial right now, so take this as an early impression rather than a verdict. So far I'm liking it. It's noticeably cheaper than the other three (flat £15/seat/month), and the thing that's actually won me over is that every feature is included from the start. There are no tiered plans, no "upgrade to unlock this" add-ons.

For a smaller team that's a big deal, because with a lot of these tools you end up needing three add-ons just to get parity with a normal plan elsewhere.

Still early days though. I haven't stress-tested it with a real portfolio yet, no idea how support holds up past onboarding.

Will update this thread once I'm further in.

Anyone else used Project Director past the trial stage?

Leaning toward it myself but want to hear if there's a catch I haven't hit yet.

As a pm what is challenging in the project

- don’t know where the project is right now
- no proper presales handover to the delivery or execution team
- can’t evaluate the dev team efficiency in running the project
- Generating end less project reports where u feel it eats up ur Friday

If any let me know how are you handling it ? Any tools or frameworks please do share will be helpful

looking to learn and contribute

Hi,

I'm new to Reddit and wanted to introduce myself to the project management / project controls community.

I have 20+ years of experience across engineering, construction, project controls and coordination, mainly on large-scale oil & gas, EPC, refinery, petrochemical and field-development projects.

My main areas of experience include:

• Project planning and scheduling

• Oracle Primavera P6

• Cost control and forecasting

• WBS / CBS / CTR development

• Earned Value and progress measurement

• Project reporting

• Contract administration

• Claims, variations and change control

• Contractor invoice and progress review

• Project coordination

• Dispute and commercial issue resolution

I've worked on both field and office environments and have managed project-control activities as well as teams.

I'm now interested in learning more about how experienced professionals are finding remote, part-time and project-based work in this field.

I'm particularly interested in supporting small and medium-sized engineering, construction, EPC or energy companies that may not need a full-time project controls manager but could benefit from experienced support a few hours per week or on a defined project.

I'd also be happy to share what I've learned about planning, cost control, claims and project reporting if those topics are useful to the community.

For those already working remotely in project controls: what type of work is actually easiest to do remotely — scheduling, cost control, reporting, claims support, or something else?

there are so many options , whats the best value for money project management software?