Leading the conversation on digital connected work
Brandon is a content strategist at Planview. Before coming aboard, he spent 5 years writing about Agile project management. He truly believes that core values like empathy, communication, and learning from mistakes make Agile more than just a business philosophy--they make Agile principles a life skill.
Every strategy runs on a bet. The money, people, and technology behind it will carry it through. Most executives don’t trust that bet. Economist Impact research commissioned by Planview found that only 20% of executives are confident in the financial, human, and technological resources allocated to strategy implementation. Four out of five are watching work...
Note: This is part three in our three-part series on strategy execution: PROVE. The gate closes. The launch ships. The team moves to the next program. That is where the record usually ends. You decided what earned capacity and what did not. You caught the drift before it became a missed date. The product reached...
The enterprise project management office (EPMO) helps leadership decide where the organization places its money and its people. That mandate sits above any single division. It covers which investments get funded, whether those commitments still serve the strategy two quarters later, and what the portfolio is returning once the work is underway. Success in the...
Note: This is part two in our three-part series on strategy execution: PIVOT. A funding decision is only ever correct on the day you make it. The market, the supplier, the competitor, and the regulator keep moving after that. Your plan? It starts drifting the moment work begins. Most organizations don’t notice that drift until...
Note: This is part one in our three-part series on strategy execution: DECIDE. Ask any product development leader what went wrong on the last program that slipped, and the pattern is familiar enough that it barely needs describing: Read that as an industry condition, and the odds look stacked against you before a program starts....
It’s safe to say nearly every delivery team is adding AI to move faster. But here’s the thing: most are adding it to a stack that already can’t agree with itself. Output climbs. Visibility drops. And all this happens right when leaders are being asked to prove what each release returned. Companies that are aligned...
Key takeaways: Something has changed in how serious software organizations operate, and it isn’t getting enough airtime. The decisions that shape what ships, what gets killed, and what gets pushed are moving from project managers to product managers. As Planview’s Chief Product Officer, Louise Allen, put it at Pendomonium recently: “Product managers are the cool...
Strategy execution has never been harder. Markets shift overnight, priorities change in weeks, and opportunities vanish if you can’t move fast. Speed and flexibility feel less like differentiators and more like survival skills. If complex approvals, disconnected tools, and reactive reporting are still slowing you down, you’re not just behind schedule anymore. You’re at risk...
What happens when your organization looks like a patchwork of teams running waterfall projects, Agile sprints, and hybrid workflows? The answer depends on how well your enterprise is equipped to orchestrate complexity rather than fight it. If you’re using spreadsheets and disparate tools to manage your work, you’re probably missing opportunities and drowning in chaos....
When markets shift overnight, being able to quickly adapt sets successful organizations apart from the rest. These are the organizations that can fundamentally rethink their strategies and rapidly pivot their strategic investments and resources to capitalize on new opportunities or defend against emerging threats. Consider this scenario: Your competitor launches a disruptive product threatening a...
