You're accountable for a portfolio the size of a mid-market company's entire P&L. But the data doesn't live with you, it lives in a delivery team's Jira board, a PMO's Project schedule, a business unit's Planner plan, and a capacity workbook in Excel only one resource manager knows how to maintain.
Status you can't trust
By the time 500 project updates are collected, normalized and formatted, the oldest of them is a month old.
Capacity you're guessing at
Nobody can say what your 3,000 people are actually committed to next quarter, so the same forty engineers get promised to three programs, and you find out in week nine.
Funding questions you can't answer live
"What comes out if the budget lands 15% lower?" takes an analyst, an exported spreadsheet and a week. By the time you answer, the decision has been made without you.
A license bill that punishes transparency
Per-seat pricing means you deliberately keep sponsors, executives and delivery teams out of the system built to give everyone visibility.