The thing to understand about project managers is that they are not romantics. They will clutch at anything (a half-decent spreadsheet, a clear dashboard, even a scribbled note) if it genuinely makes the labor of delivery lighter. If they are not swooning over your gleaming, multimillion-dollar enterprise “PM” tool, it is not because they are technophobes. It is because the contraption does not serve them. This is not resistance to change. It is resistance to a Trojan Horse. Whose Tool Is It, Really? If project managers did not ask for it, then they were never its intended beneficiaries. Follow the pipelines of data and the victors quickly reveal themselves: Finance, Compliance, Audit, Controlling. These are the true clients. For them, the new system is a godsend; no more clunky macros, no more bloated spreadsheets. Their reports are clean, their dashboards luminous, their enthusiasm unmistakable. But this is not empowerment for project managers. It is conscription. They are reduced to