Linda Roach
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Linda Roach

Director, Solutions Marketing

Linda Roach champions solutions marketing at Planview, partnering with customers to articulate their business challenges and to quantify the value of implementing change. Linda leads Planview's agile go-to-market team for portfolio and resource management. During her tenure, Linda has helped drive Planview's market advancement and significant growth through marketing leadership roles. Previously, Linda held positions at Pervasive Software, VTEL, and Kodak where she led go-to-market initiatives for new products and product line expansion. Linda holds a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from SUNY Buffalo.

Portfolio and Resource Management at Work: Real-World Use Cases

Today’s organizations are challenged to drive innovation and transformation like never before. Savvy PMOs and IT organizations realize that they must go beyond simply completing projects on time and on budget. They must create and drive these innovation and digital transformation initiatives – or at least deliver them – in line with business objectives. Yet,...

Improving PPM Using Objectives and Key Results

Many organizations use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure performance and milestones toward their goals. For today’s customer-centric organizations, it is critical to align metrics that show the impact of programs designed to meet their strategy. We’ve seen this is easier said than done. Just last year, 73% of budget decision makers felt that 2017...

IT Project Success Rates Are On The Rise: Project Champion or Underperformer?

After years of stagnate IT project success rates, it looks like the tide is turning, according to the 2017 Pulse of the Profession report from the Project Management Institute (PMI) – a promising message for PMO leaders and C-level stakeholders alike. The ninth global project management survey features insights from 3,234 project management professionals, 200...

Do the Math: Calculating the ROI of Product Portfolio Management

Carrie Nauyalis New product development (NPD) solution evangelist Carrie Nauyalis is extremely passionate about the ROI of product portfolio management. She likes to walk the walk and talk the talk when it comes to championing a single source of the truth for greater efficiency in bringing products to market. In fact, she is such an advocate...

A Six Step Approach to Business Transformation and Reinvention in the Cloud

In a recent Wired Innovation Insights article, Planview’s CEO Greg Gilmore shares Planview’s transformation from a “traditional” on-premise software company to software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivered in the cloud. He discusses the fact that this type of business change is not only affected by technology or the product, but instead touches every aspect of the business. Learn...

Hallmark Delivers Heart-Warming Products This Valentine’s Day

Another holiday is upon us and retail stores everywhere are filling up with a variety of red and pink keepsakes for loved ones. I was recently at a Hallmark store stocking up on my own Valentine’s Day gifts and stumbled upon their latest product, Magic Message Reveal Heart. I was automatically impressed because I know...

Top 5 Most Popular Innovation and Product Development Resources of 2013

Last year we focused heavily on primary research pertaining to people, processes, and tools as it relates to product development innovation and maturity. The research itself was well received by the product development community and got people thinking about how they can improve maturity within their organization. In 2014, we will continue to dive deeper into...

7 Informative IT PMO Resources to Leverage in 2014

As we begin to tackle everything the New Year brings, I wanted to share this list of informative IT PMO resources from 2013 I thought you may find helpful as you work through your 2014 goals. These resources feature best practices from IT executives in today’s leading organizations, trends from industry analysts, and our own...

Long-Range Planning and FP&A: A Crash Course for 2014

Last year produced an amazing number of qualitative and quantitative recommendations for the FP&A professional. Early in 2013, Ventana Research and Financial Executive Research Foundation (FERF) published the first of its kind: New Benchmarks in Long-Range Planning. The comprehensive study spawned both an Executive Summary from Ventana Research and a complementary set of actionable recommendations...