The Tools of OPM3: Online versus ProductSuite

This week I am headed down to Orlando for the Project Management Institute’s annual Congress. As I look forward to Florida with its sunny beaches and orange groves, I am also looking forward to discussions at the conference with peers about improving OPM3 and the tools used to implement it. Many people still do not understand the differences between these tools, so I have decided to explain those differences here.

If you were a gardener who wished to grow a Florida orange tree from a seed to maturity, you would probably be pleased if I offered you a water bucket. That’s assuming you interpret the words “water bucket” to mean a bucket of water. Obviously if I were only offering you a bucket that could contain water but didn’t, then you would not have what you needed. Certainly you would have the shape of what you needed, but not the thing itself. At best, you might find this aggravating. At worst, your seedling could die. Either way, it is what’s in the bucket that you need.

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