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What is Bubble PPM?
Bubble PPM is a cloud-based Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) software solution from Bubble®. Founded in 1999, the company serves clients globally via offices in London, Cambridge, and Vancouver.Its cloud-based solutions help customers improve the planning, governance, and delivery…
Bubble PPM is a robust system with personalized assistance that will get your teams organized for Product Development work.
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Just what you need, without a bunch of stuff that you don't
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More than just software: a collaboration that streamlines productivity and alignment
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What is Bubble PPM?
Bubble PPM is a cloud-based Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) software solution from Bubble®. Founded in 1999, the company serves clients globally via offices in London, Cambridge, and Vancouver. Its cloud-based solutions help customers improve the planning, governance, and delivery of…
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What is Bubble PPM?
Its cloud-based solutions help customers improve the planning, governance, and delivery of Innovation, New Product Development, Engineering, IT, and other initiatives.
Their software supports Portfolio Planning, ongoing Project and Portfolio Management, and Resource management.
According to the vendor, the solution enables cross-functional teams to collaborate effectively on projects and provides a flexible platform for business leaders to consider investments, define priorities, and monitor overall progression. For project teams, it provides real-time views on project status and risk, streamlines reporting, facilitates the preparation for stage gate and other project reviews, and enables fact-based decision making.
Bubble PPM Features
- Supported: Portfolio Dashboards (Fully configurable to plan / monitor investments)
- Supported: Real-time Portfolio Analysis & Scenario Planning Tools
- Supported: Roadmapping tools (e.g. Strategy / Service / Technology Roadmaps etc)
- Supported: Supports Waterfall, Agile and hybrid project management processes
- Supported: Business Case, Financial and Risk Management tools
- Supported: Project Selection and Prioritisation tools (e.g. Balanced scorecards)
- Supported: Project Process Governance and Management
- Supported: Fully configurable Metrics (e.g. 1-click Chart builder / Reporting tools)
- Supported: Resource, Task & Capacity Management Tools
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Bubble PPM Competitors
- Planview AdaptiveWork
- Planisware
- Planview ChangePoint
- Sopheon Accolade
- GenSight Enterprise Portfolio Management
- Sciforma
- Planview Enterprise One (formerly Planview Enterprise and Troux)
- Clarity
- Planview PPM Pro (formerly Innotas)
Bubble PPM Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | Apple iOS |
Supported Countries | Global |
Supported Languages | Supports Multi-Language |
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Bubble PPM Customer Size Distribution
Consumers | 0% |
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Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 0% |
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 25% |
Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 75% |
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Bubble Innovator is a versatile tool that offers a range of use cases to improve project management and decision-making processes. Users praise its intuitive user interface, which allows for frequent data upload with minimal effort and streamlines reporting, enabling them to focus on productive work. The customizable reporting feature of Bubble Innovator allows users across various functions to easily create reports tailored to their specific needs and the questions posed by their leaders, driving transparency and alignment across the organization. Furthermore, Bubble Innovator serves as the source of truth for key NPD information, replacing multiple disconnected tools and ad hoc reports. It enhances transparency and facilitates collaboration by making the New Product Development pipeline visible to the entire organization, promoting cross-functional alignment and focus on NPD priorities. The software also acts as a centralized location for all non-technical NPD project data, eliminating the need for multiple reporting mechanisms and SharePoint sites. Additionally, Bubble Innovator provides valuable features for portfolio management, enabling management to make prioritization decisions based on project profile data and bringing visibility to the innovation pipeline. With Bubble Innovator, cross-functional teams involved in launching new products can collaborate effectively and coordinate their efforts across supply chain, marketing, quality, R&D, and other functions. The software acts as a single source of truth for new product development, program/project descriptions, financial impact, status, and milestone progress. This enhances organizational efficiency and clarity in the NPD pipeline by eliminating multiple sources of truth and reducing demands for updates. Moreover, Bubble Innovator helps strike a clearer balance between long and short-term innovation opportunities, supporting better project prioritization and resource allocation. Overall, users have found that Bubble Innovator improves project management and delivery within their organizations while enhancing collaboration and coordination among team members across departments.
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(1-2 of 2)More than just software: a collaboration that streamlines productivity and alignment
- I already mentioned the simple user interface for data upload, and the equally intuitive customized reporting. Leadership and "supporting" functions for product development get tremendous value from this because they don't need to hunt down answers anymore. Everything from pipeline planning to operational planning can be built on the same foundation of objective data, rather than many different sources interpreted through many different lenses.
- But the greatest value I think Bubble Innovator delivers is not really the product itself. It's the sense of partnership and responsiveness from the Bubble Innovation team. The Bubble Innovation team becomes a part of your team. They are valued consultants with helpful input on best practices for stage gate management, portfolio analytics, and report visualization. I have continually been impressed with the responsiveness and effort that their team brings to the table. When we have challenges and need to customize our data or analytics or reporting, they are right there beside us, finding the best solution, sharing prototypes in a test environment, and implementing as fast as possible.
- The biggest issue we've had in the past is customized reporting. But this has now been addressed with a new module dedicated to enabling any user to build the report to exactly meet their needs and address the questions being asked by their leaders. There is always room for improvement here, and the leadership demands for alternative views are frequently evolving, but with the customized reporting ability we can deal with this evolution far better than ever before, and beyond the capabilities of any competitive product I've seen.
- Detailed resource & capacity planning is not the strength of this tool. Compiling and packaging data to drive highly constructive conversations during stage gate reviews, pipeline reviews, and portfolio optimization discussions is. With that said, the Bubble Innovation team rose to the challenge of creating a high-level resource & capacity planning tool that now gives us reasonable ability to plan for forward-looking functional resource gaps in the context of a prioritized project list. It won't address detailed capabilities/competencies at the individual employee level.
- For senior level reporting, we tend to speak in PowerPoint. While it is pretty effortless to create Excel and pdf output from Bubble Innovator, it would be nice to be able to export reports/data/charts/content to PowerPoint.
- As noted previously, streamlined and efficient reporting means more time working productively and less time converting all your updates into the slide format-of-the-year/quarter/month.
- Also mentioned previously, the transparency is an immediate benefit. Not just visibility to which projects have the greatest risk or value, but also which ones are at risk of missing milestones so you can proactively address them, and which ones simply don't have sufficient data entered/available to inform good decision making.
- The stage gate management tools, which Bubble Innovation worked very closely with us to develop, have driven improved rigor, consistency, and constructive challenge into our project management. If there are highly critical strategic elements that need to be incorporated into all projects across the business (e.g., heightened awareness of profitability impact), then you can efficiently push that into every stage gate conversation across every platform by integrating that element into your stage gate requirements, without having any impact on design control or more stringently controlled procedures.
- Vendor implemented
- Data integrity - it was critical to reinforce with the PMO that the data were becoming highly visible, and inherent in high-level reporting & decision-making. The ease of use of Innovator allows every user to see how their data are compiled into reports, so they are aware of how the information is used, and how to best convey status updates, requests for assistance, or recommendations. As mentioned, when Bubble met face-to-face with users in every site globally it helped build rapport and a sense of team, so we were all working together to hit an aggressive deadline.
- Building custom reports
- Stage gate management - consistency, rigor, & constructive challenge are embedded
- Resource & capacity planning - not sure there is an easy way around this, but for the tool to work effectively, functional resource capacity and project level assignments must be entered across every project and mapped over each quarter for each major function. The Bubble Innovation team has offered to implement pre-filled resource fields to streamline this, but the fact remains that it probably varies for every project and must be done manually, regardless of the software.
- The Bubble team is outstanding at providing technical support, query response times are often within an hour and resolutions (depending on the level of complexity of the query) follow very quickly after this. They provide a professional, reliable service.
- The software design is simple, intuitive and more accessible than many of the alternatives on the market. It does not require licenses, installations, internal servers, extensive training programs. It doesn't interface directly with 'business management' software which provides flexibility and development opportunities.
- The Bubble team have a depth of knowledge for new product development processes and relevant industries, and provide much more than just the software. The teams are actively involved in process design beyond the software, and their recommendations have been invaluable when establishing a new stage-gate process across our organisation.
- Development of custom functionality, and redefining 'standard' options for the software. As Bubble grows and their customer base increases there will be opportunity for this, at present development projects can be slow and expensive. However the standard software options are excellent, but as processes evolve within organisations the flexibility to evolve the software could be made simpler.
- Visibility of product development pipelines, including rolled up views for individual portfolios of projects and across the business as a whole
- Clarity of resource allocation across projects
- Portfolio management, prioritization of development projects and alignment with business objectives
- Getting developments 'right first time' by considering risks early, making decisions clear and visible, and holding teams accountable for delivering to timelines
- Vendor implemented
- Implemented in-house