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    Pocket PMO vs Planview

    Planview is enterprise PPM built for portfolio finance at scale. Pocket PMO is portfolio governance for the small PMO that will never get that budget. In short, an accessible, AI-first PMO platform for anyone who delivers projects: predictive delivery signals, practical governance and interactive stakeholder reporting, without an enterprise rollout.

    Planview is a serious enterprise PPM suite: financial planning, capitalised cost, resource supply and demand, scenario modelling and strategic funding, at a depth we do not attempt. If you have a central PMO team, an implementation partner and a multi-quarter rollout, that depth is the reason to buy it. Most of the people who search for PPM software have none of those things. They have two to ten projects, no PPM budget, and a board that still expects a portfolio view every month. Pocket PMO covers that band: portfolio RAG, prioritisation, capacity, programme milestones, benefits and board reporting, configured on day one, priced as a subscription rather than a programme.

    Where Planview wins

    Portfolio financial planning, capitalisation and funding models
    Deep resource supply-and-demand and long-range scenario modelling
    Enterprise-scale governance across hundreds of projects and programmes
    Established analyst standing and enterprise procurement track record
    Strategic planning and OKR alignment at organisation level

    Where Pocket PMO wins

    Live in an afternoon, not a two-quarter implementation programme
    No central admin team required to keep it running
    Transparent subscription pricing (£30 single PM, £120 for five users)
    Approval-first AI drafting the reporting a small PMO has no time for
    Portfolio RAG, prioritisation, capacity and benefits without the configuration cost
    Designed for fractional PMOs and consultants running several clients

    Feature-by-feature

    FeaturePocket PMOPlanview
    Portfolio financial planning and capitalisation
    Not something we attempt — Planview wins outright
    Long-range resource supply and demand modelling
    Enterprise-scale programme hierarchies
    Portfolio RAG roll-up
    Portfolio prioritisation and scoring
    Capacity heatmap
    Programme milestones across projects
    Benefits register with realisation tracking
    Real RAID log with history and ownership
    AI status report and exec summary drafting
    AI risk and dependency analysis
    Predictive completion probability
    Live in under a day
    No implementation partner required
    Published, self-serve pricing
    Suits a two-to-ten project portfolio
    Multi-client portfolios for fractional PMOs
    Audit log and one-click audit pack
    GBP pricing and UK-first locale
    Yes Partial No

    Who should choose Pocket PMO?

    You need portfolio-level answers — are we doing the right work, can we staff it, was it worth it — but you are one person or a small team without an enterprise PPM budget or a rollout project. If you need capitalised cost modelling, funding scenarios or governance across hundreds of projects, buy Planview; we are honestly the wrong tool for that.

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