3 Tips for Better Collaboration Between the PMO and Delivery Organizations
Learn about the evolving role of the PMO and how it can provide value in an Agile organization through better collaboration.
Natalie Vandenberg
Product Marketing InternNatalie is the Product Marketing Intern for Planview's VSM team. She has a Bachelor's degree in English from the University of British Columbia and is looking forward to continuing to strengthen her skills in analysis, communication, and project management.
Leading Financial Services Provider Decreases Spend While Increasing Customer Satisfaction Using Flow Metrics
Digital financial startups are taking the market by storm, and many big banks are struggling to keep up. In a world where agility and rapid feature delivery are crucial, sprawling, siloed organizations laden with top-down processes are at a disadvantage. One of the world’s largest banking and financial services organizations, faced with a rising tide...
What’s New in October?
Happy October! This month, we’re pleased to announce a new plug-and-play connector for our Value Stream Management solution — Aha!, new portfolio or group-level insights into outliers and dependencies, and new configuration options for advanced cross-tool synchronization. Your Aha! (Connector) Moment Shift your value stream left and capture all the activities that happen during the...
7 Ways to Ensure Success When Shifting from Project to Product-Based Software Delivery
“The software delivery efficiency of [enterprise IT organizations] is abysmal when compared to that of digital startups or the tech giants” – Dr. Mik Kersten, Project to Product In an age where new software companies are popping up left, right, and center, traditional enterprises are ill-equipped to compete with these fast-paced digital natives. Most are...
The Four Types of Integration for Software Delivery: Pros and Cons
If you’re looking to improve efficiency in your software delivery organization, a good first step is to integrate your toolchain and automate workflows. The software delivery life cycle is complex and involves many specialists who each require specialized tools. Integration allows information to flow seamlessly from tool to tool, knitting your software delivery toolchain into...
Story Points and Flow Metrics: What’s the Difference?
Ron Jeffries, who helped coin the concept of story points back in the 2000s, said recently that he “deplore[s] their misuse.” In the early days of story points, developers “really only used the points to decide how much work to take into an iteration,” says Jeffries. But some organizations expanded their use, using story points...
OKRs Examples for Software Companies
Introduction Objective and Key Results (OKRs) were first implemented by Andy Grove at Intel in the 1970s. John Doerr, who had worked at Intel, brought OKRs to Google in 1999, where they helped fuel massive growth and raise employee morale. Since then, OKRs have become the choice goal-setting method for digital natives and traditional businesses...
3 Ways to Engage and Accelerate IT with OKRs and Value Stream Management
TIAA, a Fortune 100 financial services organization, manages investments for more than six million clients, totalling more than 1.3 trillion dollars. According to Darrell Fernandes, the Head of Product Technology, the company’s success boils down to its operational strength — an area which Darrell is continuously improving. In Episode 43 of the Mik + One...
Symbiosis: The Flow Framework® meets Team Topologies
In Episode 42 of the Mik + One Podcast, Dr. Mik Kertsen sat down with Manuel Pais, renowned IT consultant and co-author of Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology for Fast Flow, to discuss the relationship between Team Topologies and the Flow Framework®. They highlight three areas of symbiosis in the shift from project to...
Managing Constraints Effectively with the Right Resource Planning Software – Enrich Consulting
Watch a three-minute overview of the Enrich Analytics features discussed in this case study. Growth is a good thing—it means larger market share, more profit, greater reach. But it also brings challenges, as a company struggles to allocate resources to support growth without over-committing itself. A rapidly growing pharmaceutical company faced exactly this dilemma: the company...
