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PPM Insights module provides a way for project managers to be on top of all the crucial changes to projects and portfolios.

As some users have many Epics that they manage as separate projects or sub-projects, we have updated our Import Project functionality to allow our users to import Epics from Azure DevOps as separate Projects in PPM Express.

The module will allow users to create resource plan for a project and successfully manage resource utilization and allocation.

After successful release of the first phase we continue with further development and enhancements of our Task Management Module. We are preparing new features and visual interface improvements to power your teams to manage projects easily and effectively.

To easily manage their project activities users will be able to view all tasks assigned to them across all projects on one page.

Sync up your Smartsheet projects data and see how they are going – instantly, in a single dashboard.

The module will allow creating roadmaps on a project, portfolio and multi-portfolio levels to define project or portfolio strategic objective over a specific period and communicate major steps and milestones planned for achieving that objective.

Details of users and their permissions will be available for editing in bulk.

Our new module will support Scaled Agile Framework to help larger organizations manage some of the challenges they have when practicing and scaling agile.

Report on your projects in automated time tracking tool “PPM Express Time” that provides connections to multiple systems – Office 365, Outlook, Jira, Microsoft Planner, VSTS, Git and others to track user activity and connect it with PPM Express for reporting and visual control of time spent on your projects. Find out more about PPM Express Time and learn how to configure integration.

Communicate major changes to Microsoft Teams channel to stay up-to-date with your team on key events on portfolio and project level. Learn more

Users can connect their ideas / demands created in PPM Express with Microsoft Teams by adding a “Demand Management” tab in a Teams channel which points to specific business challenge in PPM Express and shows its details. Learn more

The module enables users to create their own schedules / plans / tasks within PPM Express, as well create and modify tasks of internal PPM Express projects. From now on PPM Express becomes a full-cycle project portfolio management platform where you can manage your work on all levels, whether it’s a task, a project, or a portfolio, integrated with external systems as JIRA / Azure DevOps / Planner or not. Learn more

Short notifications / warnings on data quality will provide a way to notify users in case there are any inconsistencies in their portfolio / project data and give them a tip on which data should be modified to provide consistent data of the project and portfolio details, statuses and progress. Learn more

Integration with Microsoft Teams will allow installing PPM Express app directly in Microsoft Teams, select a specific project or portfolio for a relevant channel and work with it from Teams the same way as it can be done on PPM Express website. Learn more

The module will support project ideation / project crowd sourcing process in organizations that are looking for ways to collect ideas from their employees and align the ideas with strategic priorities and business challenges of organization. After review and prioritization of submitted ideas organization can select the ones that will deliver maximum benefit to organization with minimal cost and time and create a new project for execution. Learn more

‘Lessons learned’, ‘Action items’, ‘Key decisions’, ‘Steering Committee’, ‘Change Requests’ sections have been added to Projects Details Page and have been included in Power BI reports. These reports are also accessible from Projects card menu now. Learn more

Review the details for your Project and Portfolio in general or see the information for the Key Dates and Iterations from the Timeline directly by navigating to the timeline hints. Get the information about the number of Projects by status, by progress, and key dates in Summary section on the Portfolio Details page. Learn more

Link one project created in PPM Express to several projects managed in different work management systems (e.g. Jira and Planner) and combine project progress and general project information (resources, key dates, issues, risks, etc.) from several source systems in PPM Express. Avoid constant switching between different systems and keep track of overall project and portfolio progress in one place. Learn more

If you clone PPM Express Project, a complete copy of this project will be created, so that you can avoid manual configuration of Project Details Page when you create a new Project similar to an existing one. Project statuses, fields and columns of project sections, as well as their position on the Project Details Page, will be copied from the existing Project to the new Project. Learn more

Bulk delete Projects, Portfolios, and Resources you do not anymore in one click. Learn more

As a tenant administrator you can allow new users to sign up to your PPM Express tenant either automatically from the same Office 365 / GSuite tenant or by sending them invitations with relevant permissions directly in application. Learn more

Strategic Themes Page will continue evolving of Ideation Module and will allow to specify strategic priorities and business challenges in the organization. The page will contain a predefined set of strategic themes, as well as an option to add new themes that are strategically important for your organization. Learn more

Portfolio Prioritization & Alignment Screen will allow to set strategic themes and their importance (weight) for the selected portfolio and it’s projects and calculate portfolio alignment score based on predefined formulas. Learn more

*This is a preliminary roadmap, and the list of features in the backlog might change.

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