In most PMOs, the most important work doesn’t happen in project schedules or dashboards. It happens in conversations. In trade-offs. In approvals, rejections, escalations, and “why we decided this instead of that.”And too often, those moments vanish — buried in emails, meetings, or someone’s memory. That’s where Logbook changes everything. In a connected Planview environment, Logbook isn’t just an activity feed. It’s the narrative layer of your portfolio — the living record of intent, context, and accountability that turns data into decisions and governance into leadership. From System of Record to System of Reason Projects, requests, and investments tell you what is happening.Logbook tells you why. Every approval, deferral, scope adjustment, risk acknowledgement, or priority shift becomes part of an auditable story — timestamped, attributable, and tied directly to the work itself. No archaeology. No side-channel explanations. Just clarity. This is governance without friction. Connected, Not Isolated In a mature Planview configuration, Logbook doesn’t sit off to the side — it’s woven through the lifecycle: • Intake decisions explained, not just approved• Funding changes documented in real time• Scope shifts justified when they happen, not after• Risks acknowledged with leadership visibility• Trade-offs captured at the moment of choice When portfolios roll up, Logbook rolls with them — preserving context as work moves from idea to execution to outcome. Transparency That Builds Trust Executives don’t just want dashboards.They want confidence. Logbook provides defensible transparency — not performative reporting, but decision intelligence. When priorities are challenged or outcomes questioned, the answers already exist, embedded in the record of how the organization navigated complexity. That’s how trust scales. The PMO’s Quiet Superpower Used intentionally, Logbook becomes the PMO’s most understated advantage. It elevates the PMO from reporter to institutional memory, from gatekeeper to strategic narrator.