Resource Article: Why Platform Migrations Fail (And How to Land Yours Successfully)
Featured Article: Why the End of Project Online Might Be the Best Thing for Your Team
RESCHEDULED Live Event (7/8): Why Project Online End of Life Might Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us
PM Best Practice: Define your destination before you scope the move
Tuesday Brief: September 30 is now less than three months away, and the Project Online migration conversation is shifting from "should we start planning" to "are we making the right call." This week, we pair the organizational side of platform transitions with a case for rethinking what you actually need from your next tool. And if you couldn't make it to Eric and Jeff Christoph's live session last week, good news: it's been rescheduled to this Wednesday (7/8).
Resource Article: Why Platform Migrations Fail (And How to Land Yours Successfully)
The technical side of a platform migration gets most of the attention, but the failure rate tells a different story. Adoption stalls, governance gaps carry over from the old system, and teams revert to workarounds within weeks of launch. This article maps the five organizational patterns that derail enterprise migrations and translates proven change frameworks (Kotter's and Prosci's models) into practical steps for PMOs managing a tool transition right now.
If you're weighing your options for what comes after Project Online, this is the piece to read before you evaluate a single vendor.
Featured Article: Why the End of Project Online Might Be the Best Thing for Your Team
With under 90 days until retirement, it's easy to treat the September deadline as a problem to solve. Eric and Jeff Christoph argue the opposite. After years of working around limitations in Project Online's scheduling, cost tracking, and version control, they saw the forced move as a reason to re-examine what they actually needed from a project controls platform. In this article, they walk through the gaps they identified in Microsoft Project, the design decisions that followed, and what a unified environment for schedule, cost, and project history looks like in practice.
Whether or not their tool is the right fit for your organization, the question they raise is worth sitting with: are you replacing what you had, or building what you needed all along?
*RESCHEDULED* Live Event (7/8): Why Project Online End of Life Might Be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Us
This session was originally scheduled for July 1 and has been rescheduled to this Wednesday. The Zoom link is the same, so if you already registered, you don't need to register again!
Eric and Jeff Christoph of Transformative Management Solutions will walk through how they turned a forced migration into a ground-up rethink of project controls, and what that process revealed about the tools most teams are still relying on. This is an interactive session with live Q&A, so come prepared with the migration questions your team is actually wrestling with.
What You'll Learn:
Why replacing Project Online feature-for-feature may leave your biggest gaps untouched
How to evaluate whether your next platform should do more than scheduling
What a single governed environment for schedule, cost, and project history changes about day-to-day delivery
Where to start if your organization hasn't finalized its migration path yet
🗓️ Wednesday, July 8, 2026 🕛 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET 📍 Live on Zoom 🏅 1 PDU (1 Business Acumen)
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PM Best Practice: Define your destination before you scope the move
When facing a platform migration, teams often start with the data: what do we export, how do we clean it, what migrates and what gets archived? That work matters, but until you know where you're going and what that platform needs to support, you can't make good decisions about what to bring along. Define your requirements, shortlist your destination, and then scope the migration. The data work gets easier and faster when you know what the target environment actually needs.
