Scrum, Kanban, Lean or Waterfall… or maybe a combination?

Many organizations aspire to adopt agile processes such as Scrum, Kanban and even a combination like Scrumban to take advantage of the numerous benefits that they offer to an organization. Those benefits include, but are not limited to, quicker return on investment, better software quality, and higher customer satisfaction. As part of this shift, organizations...

Tips for Identifying Project Risks

Als Projektmanager können Sie sich bei fast jedem neuen Projekt sicher sein, dass etwas schief gehen wird. Sie wissen vielleicht nicht genau, was es sein wird - nicht verfügbare Ressourcen, Terminkonflikte, geänderte Anforderungen oder etwas anderes - aber die Chancen stehen gut, dass mindestens ein Teil Ihres Projektplans nicht eingehalten werden kann. Was unterscheidet den durchschnittlichen...

Planview AdaptiveWork as an alternative to MS Project

One of the things we asked ourselves when we founded Planview AdaptiveWork is why was MS Project so popular and so commonly used? The answer is simple; it’s available, affordable, and includes a very necessary set of Project Management features. The next question we asked was, “why is Excel even more popular and commonly used...

The Directly Responsible Individual in the Age of Social Enterprise

In the business world, it is often said that execution is everything. What most commonly separates successful organizations from those that lag behind or, oftentimes those who fail altogether, are not great ideas, but great delivery. To be sure, a great idea or product can make you and your organization initially successful. However, without solid...

Top 3 Wege, mit einem gescheiterten Projekt umzugehen

A well known self-help guru, who has legions of raving fans across the world and dozens of books to his credit, once suggested that there is no such thing as failure; there are only results. Well, as edifying as that may be, telling a Project Sponsor that “the project wasn’t a total disaster – it...

How to Compare Project Management Software

As more companies around the world – from fresh solopreneurial start-ups all the way up to large established enterprises – grasp the fact that project management is an efficient and effective approach to reducing risk, ensuring quality, controlling costs, and achieving objectives, the decision to get project management software is an easy one. However, that’s...

Introducing Planview AdaptiveWork Panels

Clarizen’s configuration platform allows you to create a vast array of business rules, custom actions, and custom fields to help automate business processes, customize Planview AdaptiveWork to meet your needs, and most importantly, have workflow processes collaborated between all members of your team as well as your clients. We at Planview AdaptiveWork pride ourselves on...

RACIVS – The Secret to Managing your Stakeholders

In his article “How to Turn a Failed Project into a Successful Program”, Shay Shargal noted that one of the reasons projects fail is the “Poor communication and coordination between various stakeholders of the project: Customers, Vendors, Suppliers, Managers, Resources and others.” When communication breaks down and perceptions on roles and responsibilities are misaligned, the...

How to Prepare a Plan to Introduce a New Product

The time you’ve been dreaming of is finally here. All of those endless hours and, alas, sleepless nights have finally paid off. At long last, you know that you have in your hands (or perhaps on your screen) a WINNING product – one that’s going to transform the conversation in your marketplace, win you many...

Transparenz und Maximierung der Leistung des Projektteams

Motivation, leadership, structure, resources and systems: all of these must be present to maximize project team performance. Yet, as important as these are, they aren’t enough. There’s one more piece of the “team performance puzzle” that is indispensable. And surprisingly, it’s also the one piece that many projects overlook. Transparency. Transparency enables project team members...