Naomi Lurie
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Naomi Lurie

Naomi Lurie is VP Product Marketing at Tasktop. She is passionate about making businesses successful through effective customer-centric communication. With over 15 years of B2B product management and marketing experience, she specializes in large enterprises and their digital transformations.

Fighting Pandemic Fatigue by Safely Experimenting With Engineering Team Structures

In this fourth installment of our Tasty Dog Food Series, we continue to share stories of how we at Tasktop are using our own product, Planview Viz™, to boost our growth and happiness. Planview Viz is a value stream management solution that measures and optimizes the flow of business value in software delivery organizations.  This...

How We Built the Case for Application Replatforming Using Flow Metrics

In this third installment of our Tasty Dog Food Series, we continue to share stories of how we’re using our own product, Planview Viz™, internally to boost our growth and happiness. This time, I spoke to Jeff McCollum, our Product Value Stream Lead for Planview Hub, who told me how he used Planview Viz and...

New Product Release: Planview Hub 21.2 – Design Facelift, Enhanced Support for Jira, GitLab, BMC Remedy

The latest product release from the Tasktop Value Stream Management (VSM) platform—Planview Hub 21.2—is out today. The latest updates and optimizes make end-to-end enterprise toolchain integration even easier and impactful. Our customers—Fortune 500 companies and other large-scale organizations across major industries such as manufacturing, finance, healthcare and government—can further boost their business agility as they...

SAFe®, Scrum, Kanban Share a Bottleneck and It’s Not What You Think

Even in today’s economic downturn, where U.S. job postings are down overall compared to 2019, tech hiring is showing signs of being more resilient than average. In fact, seven of the ten most in-demand tech jobs are for developers—and none are for QA.  That’s a bit alarming, because the Flow Metrics of several Fortune 100...

New Product Release: Planview Hub 21.1 – Jira, Leankit, VersionOne, Tricentis Tosca Integration

The latest product release from the Tasktop Value Stream Management platform—Planview Hub 21.1—is out today, making end-to-end enterprise toolchain integration even easier and impactful. New exciting features include: The ability to take action on specific artifacts pairs Expanding support for multiple Atlassian Jira plugins Enhancements to our LeanKit, VersionOne and Tosca support View, Synchronize, Delete, and Recreate Specific...

SAFe® 5.0: How to Avoid This Big Mistake

Enterprise agility can be hard to achieve for companies that weren’t built from the ground up as software companies. Old habits die hard, even under the glossy new surface of SAFe operating procedures and cadences.  Similar to the beloved genre of transformation TV shows, there is a key to what sticks. Queer Eye gives fabulous...

New Product Release: Planview Hub 20.4 – Artifact Unions, Micro Focus/Octane Use Case, Configuration History, Daimler AG Connector

Tasktop’s latest product release from its Value Stream Management platform—Planview Hub 20.4—is out today, making end-to-end enterprise toolchain integration even easier and impactful. New exciting features include: Artifact unions Test Management use case between Micro Focus ALM and ALM Octane Configuration history New connector for Daimler/Mercedes-Benz AG’s new defect and test management system Introducing Artifact Unions Have...

How IT Can Get Its Dream Makeover with Value Stream Management

Here at Tasktop, we’ve had plenty of interesting conversations with enterprises about whether they should delay adoption of a value stream management (VSM) platform until they’ve had a chance to “clean up their mess”.  Beneath the question lies a fear — always legitimate, but especially so in a year of economic distress and highly constrained...

Value Stream Management: History Has Its Eyes On Us

I have a confession: I’m having a Hamilton relapse.   Three years ago, the Broadway musical’s soundtrack was playing non-stop in our house. We listened to it over and over on a road trip from Austin to Florida. My husband even surprised me for my 40th birthday by taking me to Chicago to see the play...

New Product Release: Integrate Jira Align with Planview Hub 20.3

Tasktop’s latest product release from its Value Stream Management platform—Planview Hub 20.3—is out today, making end-to-end enterprise toolchain integration even easier and impactful. You can now tightly integrate Jira Align with the rest of your software delivery value stream to improve the speed, velocity and quality of your deliveries. Alongside a host of new UX features,...