Who Uses PM3?
Organisations managing portfolios of business change programmes, programmes and/or projects.
What Is PM3?
PM3 is a different PPM tool. It is designed by practitioners for practitioners. It is very easy to use and allows you to start small and simple and then add more functionality when required.PM3 supports transformation and recovery programmes. Although it integrates with leading BI tools, PM3 has over 100 high quality dashboards and reports.
PM3 helps you focus on your project outcomes.
PM3 is 100% cloud based and all data is stored in the UK.
PM3 Details
Bestoutcome
https://bestoutcome.com
Founded 2000
PM3 Cost Overview
PM3 does not have a free version but does offer a free trial. PM3 paid version starts at USD 15.00/month.
Starting Price
USD 15.00/month
Pricing Details
From $15 per month per user
Free Version
No
Free Trial
Yes, get a free trial
Deployment
Cloud, SaaS, Web
Mobile - iOS Native
Mobile - Android Native
Training
In Person
Live Online
Webinars
Documentation
Support
Business Hours
Online
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PM3 Reviews
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Andy S.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use4/5
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Features & Functionality5/5
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Customer SupportUnrated
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Likelihood to Recommend
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- Reviewed on 01/12/2018
"Flexible, versatile solution to managing portfolios, programmes & projects"
Comments: Helping us to standardise our project practices, particularly the reporting process.
Pros:
I liked the flexible structure of portfolio, programme and project which was easy to set up and adapt to our various departmental approaches. Lots of reporting options offered as standard, and easy to tweak these to suit our needs. All our portfolio of projects are now in one place where all the PMs can access them – it’s also an advantage that you can access them from anywhere rather than needing to be in the office. Helping us to standardise our project practices and particularly the reporting process.
Support and training from Bestoutcome is excellent.
Cons: Because the range of functions and options is huge, it's sometimes easy to forget where the option you need is... however, I'd sooner have the options than a simpler product without them
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- Reviewed on 01/12/2018
Iain C.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use5/5
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Features & Functionality4/5
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Customer Support5/5
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Value for Money5/5
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- Reviewed on 09/08/2019
"Highly configurable and user friendly"
Comments: Very positive. The Bestoutcome team have been very supportive through the initial trial to implementation and training. Looking forward to building on the current configuration and putting the system to the test fully.
Pros: Easy to get to grips with. Particularly like how you can select which functions you can switch on/off so you can start small and build on that as maturity and familiarity with the system grows.
Cons: Although you can configure some fields and change them to what you want, it would be useful if you could create additional fields to be able to capture more variety of information in the system.
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- Reviewed on 09/08/2019
Mike D.
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Overall Rating5/5
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Ease of Use4/5
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Features & Functionality4/5
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Customer Support4/5
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Value for Money5/5
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- Reviewed on 22/06/2020
"Straightforward, comprehensive and clear"
Comments:
Driving consistency in reporting across the change community provides a balanced view of progress and challenges providing clear insight at multiple levels from delivery through to senior management enabling focus on prioritisation for dependencies and support for challenges.
From a Project management perspective you don't spend hours feeding information into the system and from a Programme, Portfolio or PMO perspective the output provides clear information regarding progress, trends, dependencies and issue management
Pros:
Focus on on top down visibility of core P3 metrics via dashboards that can be shared, without customisation, to senior stakeholders. From a delivery perspective updating is intuitive and efficient and drives consistency from all project and programme managers.
Especially like the governance dashboard, an excellent tool to provide a clear presentation of change health and compliance
Cons: PM3 isn't a one for all solution, still requiring planning tools such as MS Project for detailed scheduling, however I've not found a P3 product that does both effectively and efficiently. This is a minor gripe as most PMs are used to using separate planning and reporting toolsets
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- Reviewed on 22/06/2020
Christopher P.
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Overall Rating3/5
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Ease of Use3/5
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Features & Functionality4/5
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Customer Support5/5
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Value for Money5/5
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- Reviewed on 17/06/2020
"Refinement"
Comments:
As a business we are still in the very early stages of using the tool. Initial observations are that it is excellent on some things and other areas need much more work to make the tool intuitive to use. This can be resolved via more updates I'm sure.
Support via the help desk and via my account managers has been first class and Best Outcome have shown great flexibility around changes in Licence application during the Covid 19 period when our Programme was put on hold.
Management of updates is clear and very thorough with release notes easy to follow.
Pros:
The ability to draw a no.of projects together into a Programme and/or Portfolio and to draw in reports form all in selected views.
The ability to hold all major project governance in one place e.g risks/issues/ dependencies.
Reporting flexibility and range across plans/projects/programmes/portfolio
Ease of user control and self configurable access controls
Cons:
Plans - Gantt Chart usage - This is clunky at best and not intuitive. Convincing users of Microsoft Project to switch to using the tool has been an on going challenge. An easier import function may help resolve this.
Using X to exit the plan. Many users forget and has caused frustrations in plans with joint PM use.
Inconsistency of areas with auto save functionality and those where it requires manual save.
Vendor Response
by Bestoutcome on 18/06/2020
We are improving the Gantt chart functionality as a priority and these improvements are due in July 2020. Some screens cannot auto save as they have manadatory fields which could result in spurious errors if auto saved was used. We are trying wherever possible to make all screens auto save.
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- Reviewed on 17/06/2020
Nicholas L.
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Overall Rating4/5
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Ease of Use4/5
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Features & Functionality4/5
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Customer Support4/5
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Value for Money4/5
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- Reviewed on 30/06/2020
"PM3 has been a valuable tool for our business"
Comments: Our overall experience has been incredibly positive. The consultancy and support we have received really helped lay the ground work for us to implement the tool in the right way. The training design and execution was brilliantly done, and made sure we understood the tool and had the support network in place to ask questions. There are plenty of useful features within PM3 which provides great scalability to other departments and areas of our business, as well as introducing more functionality once we are ready utilise further features within the tool. We were able to be up and running quickly with the tool, and it has become valuable for our portfolio tracking and reporting.
Pros:
- Intuitive design - very easy to use and navigate around which has helped us implement the tool quickly, customise the set up for what we need and onboard project teams to use it for reporting and tracking project and programme progress.
- Scalability to develop multiple portfolios and manage your work is very well thought out with some useful report templates
- Each project plan in the tool captures useful core information to track delivery progress, status, RAID, milestones and tasks
Cons:
- Initially there was not a plan on the page solution, but this was quickly developed thanks to Best Outcome's support and has been incredibly valuable!
- Agile feature needs developing, but this is new within the tool and I believe the developers are working on adding to the Agile plugin
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- Reviewed on 30/06/2020
