Liz Llewellyn-Maxwell
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Liz Llewellyn-Maxwell

Director, Content Marketing

Liz leads the go-to-market content team at Planview. She worked at LeanKit (now Planview AgilePlace) prior to the company being acquired by Planview. A versatile writer, editor, and content strategist, Liz serves as AI Evangelist for Global Marketing, runs the Planview Blog, and has the privilege of leading several original content pieces, such the 2024 Project to Product State of the Industry report.

Verizon’s “Secret Weapon” for Keeping Their Product Vision on Track

When Abby Knowles stepped in to lead Verizon’s software engineering product model transformation, the leadership transition could have derailed the initiative. Without genuine buy-in from new leadership, teams seldom fully commit to change. Half-hearted commitment at any level can stall or undermine an entire initiative. In fact, it’s one of the primary reasons why roughly 70% of transformation efforts ultimately fail. This article reveals the essential factors Abby and her colleague, Archana Prabhu, credit for securing buy-in, maintaining momentum in their product model transformation, and delivering impressive results.

Tech Leaders Are Rethinking Software Delivery. Here’s the Evolution Taking Shape

For every dollar a typical company invests in software development, only about 25 cents supports the company’s highest-priority business outcomes. This stark disparity between investment and results is why tech leaders are rethinking their project-based approach to software delivery and adopting a product operating model.

How Vanguard, Verizon, and Spotify Apply a Product Operating Model at Scale

Organizations that adopt product-oriented approaches achieve faster delivery, better stability, and higher customer satisfaction. But what does a product operating model look like in practice – and at scale? These on-demand sessions from the Project to Product Summit 2024 feature three distinct perspectives that answer this question.

Don’t Miss These 7 Sessions From the Project to Product Summit

In October 2024, Planview sponsored the first Project to Product Summit (and it won’t be the last). In these sessions, speakers from FedEx, Nationwide, Spotify, Vanguard, Verizon, and Planview described their journeys, shared the roadblocks they encountered, and laid out the strategies they developed for the project-to-product shift.

Choosing Your AI Use Case: A Prioritization Framework

Whether you’re just entering the AI arena or it’s your umpteenth time returning, you’ll need a framework in place to gather ideas and prioritize the best ones, minimize the risk you’ll face, and continually assess your opportunities. These executive insights from a recent panel discussion on AI in the enterprise provide the basis for an AI use case decision-making framework that can be applied to quickly identify the right use case.

4 Questions Worth Asking on International Women’s Day

Uncovering the role that an individual can play in a global movement starts with curiosity. What can one person do to make a difference? The questions in this blog post offer a place to begin. How you answer them today, on International Women's Day, can shape how you might answer them every day. And those everyday actions are what is going to change the world.

Trends in AI: Should You View Data as a Product?

A panel of industry experts from Shutterstock, Nara Logics, Constellation Research, and Planview discuss the benefits of using internal data as a product, and the importance of ethical data sourcing.

Bridging the Gap: Strategic Planning for Enterprise Architects and Portfolio Managers

Strategic planning between enterprise architects and portfolio managers sounds simple enough. It’s just two groups coming together to make a plan, right?   But the reality is more complicated.  Strategic planning is a difficult process — even when there’s strong collaboration and open communication between groups.   It’s even more challenging when the groups that need...