ABSTRACT
Picking a programme management software tool is probably one of the least important decisions people makes when implementing successful programme management. This comes from several decades of experience. The author presents three cases such as, XYZ company, Jill, and his own experience. XYZ is an extremely large, global smartphone and computer manufacturer. Over the course of a year or so they were looking for a new programme management software tool to support one of their global lines of business. Together the tool makers and the XYZ company uncovered valuable intersections of the tool makers' technology and XYZ's ideal programme management approach. Jill wanted to create a picture of the executives' ideal state for how the company should operate when programme management was taken seriously. She put together Visio drawings and PowerPoint presentations describing the current state, the future state and a detailed plan on how to get from the current state to the future state.
