Your path to business agility
In March, SolutionsIQ included us in their article, “Getting to Equal in an Agile Workplace,” as one of the tools that can help teams achieve transparency while tracking the progress of their work. Throughout the article, author Hanna Gnann offered a fresh take on how companies can strive to achieve equality for women in the workplace using...
A key part of continuous improvement (one of the pillars of Lean) is continuous education – keeping your brain actively engaged with Lean ideas. Reading Lean blogs can keep Lean principles and practices top of mind as you make decisions in work and in life. It can help you remember to use a testing mindset with both...
You may have noticed a few small changes recently in Planview AgilePlace, namely the font and color. These changes are just a couple of examples of the many small changes we will be making as we update our UI to a new, fresh look. Our goal is to maintain the same ease of use that...
Picture this: 10,000 employees and 20 enterprise-wide applications with an average of ten new hires and five exiting employees a week. Now imagine the amount of time someone spends creating, editing, deleting and permissioning all those users and roles across the varying applications they use — ever changing with requests growing by the day. If...
Planview AgilePlace is a powerful Lean-Kanban tool that enables teams to visualize and manage their work processes. It is popular with IT Operations teams because it allows more flexibility than a traditional software development tool. Meanwhile, many development teams use JIRA, an Agile tool, for issue and project tracking. Integrating Planview AgilePlace with JIRA can...
Many engineering and manufacturing companies choose Planview AgilePlace to help them to gain visibility into and manage their work. We are increasingly impressed with both the diversity and utility these organizations are getting from their Planview AgilePlace boards. With this post, we’d like to share some of the more interesting examples, in the hope that...
In 2007, Steve Jobs opened a keynote presentation promising the world three new products — a widescreen touch iPod, a revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough internet device. But in a twist of events he pulled out a single device, the Original iPhone. While this was a revolutionary, “one to rule them all” type of...
In this webinar, founder and CEO of Net Objectives, Al Shalloway, addresses the cost of misaligned teams for large and growing organizations. Al discusses how to make iterative improvements to your organizational structure, resulting in easier management of complex enterprise processes and helping you deliver faster. This session provides a deep dive into: Achieving agreement...
You’ve probably heard: Agile isn’t just for software development anymore. More and more organizations are embracing Agile practices enterprise-wide as a way to increase responsiveness and deliver value faster. Executives are looking to Agile — specifically, enterprise Agile planning — to fuel strategic, sustainable growth. As Agile becomes more mainstream, there’s an emerging need for...
According to Jim Highsmith of The Economist, “An overwhelming majority of executives (88%) cite organizational agility as key to global success (…) Yet most companies admit they are not flexible enough to compete successfully.” Despite adopting Agile practices, many organizations struggle to achieve the predictable delivery, consistent speed, and agility required to compete in the...
