Enterprise Agile Planning

Enterprise Agile Planning solution provides a scalable enterprise-level Lean Portfolio Management, Agile Program Management and Agile delivery platform that supports organizations from strategy to delivery, no matter where they are on their transformation journey. Plan and fund both Lean-Agile and traditional portfolios in a single platform for strategically aligned, outcome driven plans. Enterprise Agile Planning solution empowers organizations to deliver the value that matters most while transforming on their terms and timeline.

Gain powerful insights into your SAFe transformation with Value Stream Management

If traditional enterprises want to tap into the immense business possibilities created by the Age of Software, they need to accelerate the value delivery of their digital products and services – and fast. This isn’t ground-breaking news – most organizations are acutely aware that they need to scale their software delivery capacity and capabilities to...

How CIOs can make software delivery their strongest asset

A lot rests on the shoulders of CIOs and other IT leaders at traditional businesses. They face an almost daily battle against digital disruption. With startups and other digital-native companies gobbling up market share through software-driven products and services, one inalienable truth has become clear: software is responsible for a greater and greater share of...

Lean and Agile at Work: Real World Use Cases

IT and line-of-business (LOB) leaders are working together more than ever according to the 2018 State of the CIO report. One main reason, as cited by the survey respondents, is IT’s use of “more agile development techniques to accelerate project delivery.” As both groups increasingly share responsibility for initiatives such as digital transformation, their cooperation...

Project Management Methodologies To Augment Your Lean Team

Congratulations on making the choice of a Lean work style. It’s not easy to change (and stick to) this type of methodology, but it truly does pay off in the long-term. It also shows a progressive attitude within your organization and a dedication toward its success as a whole. Many trending project management methodologies in...

How to foster software developer productivity

Last month, we were very fortunate to have André Meyer come into Tasktop to give a presentation on fostering software developer productivity. For many years André has been working with a research team with one of our company co-founders, Gail Murphy, to address the ongoing supply and demand shortage in software delivery. As “software continues to...

How Value Stream Management can help CIOs transform their business

Please note: the author of this blog and star of the video, Adam, is a fictional character based on the real experiences of CIOs and IT organizations that Tasktop has spoken to and/or worked with. If you’re an under-pressure CIO who is struggling to transform their IT organization despite your best efforts, you’ve come to...

Announcing ‘Project to Product’ book and the Flow Framework™

I’m delighted to announce that my book Project to Product will be released at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 (Las Vegas), on Oct 22, 2018. As startups disrupt every market and tech giants pull further ahead of entrenched businesses, the majority of enterprise IT organizations are facing an existential crisis. Either they quickly become much...

What is Agile Methodology

If you’ve worked with or around software developers in the past decade, you’ve likely heard of the Agile methodology. Agile was originally designed to help developers create higher quality software, faster and more reliably. But Agile isn’t just for software anymore: As software teams experienced significant improvements in speed, quality, and reliability from using the...

The Key to Better Management is to Start Getting Lean

Are your management initiatives as innovative as your products? Shifting to a leadership style that embraces change, pursues agility, and thinks outside of the box can help your company speed innovation. In his latest Product Innovation & Technology Strategy blog on CIO.com, Patrick Tickle, Planview chief product officer, invites Jon Terry, Planview chief evangelist for...