Michelle Wong
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Michelle Wong

Michelle Wong is the Content Strategist for Planview's value stream management and software toolchain integration solutions for software delivery. Her content focuses on digital transformation topics including Project to Product, Flow Framework, DevOps, Agile, and SAFe.

From Dough to Delivery: What Baking Cookies Teaches Us About Flow Metrics

If you lead technology or product development, you already know this: competition is relentless, customer expectations are rising, and operational efficiency has never been more vital. Whether you’re delivering digital platforms or producing something as tangible as cookies, success depends on how well your organization can translate demand into value at speed and scale. Yet,...

From Idea to Impact: Speeding Product Delivery Without Sacrificing Quality

Despite adopting agile, many organizations still struggle to bring products to market quickly. Bottlenecks, siloed workflows, and outdated planning slow teams down and delay innovation. Instead of building high-impact solutions, teams lose time managing updates and navigating disconnected tools.  To accelerate time-to-market, technology leaders must focus on removing delivery friction. With greater visibility, coordination, and...

From Busywork to Business Impact: How to Prioritize What Matters

Digital product teams face constant pressure to innovate quickly and collaborate across functions, but growing complexity in tools and workflows often slows them down. Instead of accelerating delivery, disconnected systems and competing demands create friction that diverts focus from high-impact work. Valuable time is spent chasing updates, managing tools, and working across silos. This leaves...

Why Disconnected Toolchains Are Crippling Your Product Development—And What to Do About It 

Software product delivery has transformed dramatically over the past decade. What once followed a linear, predictable path has become a network of cross-functional teams, cloud-native platforms, and specialized tools. This evolution has opened the door to faster innovation, but it’s also introduced a new level of complexity. One of the most persistent and underestimated challenges...

Disconnected Tools Are Killing Your ROI—Here’s the Fix 

Across industries, tech leaders are feeling the squeeze to increase velocity, reduce costs, and maintain quality, all without expanding teams or tools. Yet, while we obsess over new methodologies, cloud migrations, and automation tools, a silent killer of ROI festers in the background—disconnected software toolchains. It’s not flashy. It’s not headline-grabbing. But it’s quietly draining...

Build Resilience, Not Waste: Choosing a VSM Platform for Volatile Markets

Forrester rigorously evaluated 11 vendors across 21 criteria, and Planview received the highest scores possible in eight criteria, which we believe are the areas that matter most when navigating economic volatility. Read this blog to learn which features are the most critical when choosing a VSM solution.