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.

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...

A Lean/Agile Reading List to Kick-off Your Summer

The weather’s warming up, kids are kicking off their summer breaks, and many of us are switching our hot coffees to their iced counterparts—summer is officially here! Although it’s tempting to let the heat of the season curb your productivity, there’s no better time to invest in your personal and professional development. The summer months...

Regain Focus with Kanban

How often do you find yourself at work flipping between tabs, unable to complete a thought before moving onto something else? You go from answering an email to checking a Facebook notification to reading some LinkedIn article, and then – what was I doing? Oh yeah, answering that email. It’s the digital equivalent of walking...

Why Great Customer Service in a Lean Company Matters

The ultimate goal of Lean management is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. Traditionally focused on manufacturing and software development, customer value comes in the form of speed, price, and product quality. But what about the value of customer service? We’ve found that practicing Lean principles can help you become a more efficient customer-focused...

How do I measure the productivity of my software development team?

The eternal question for organizations worldwide – how do you measure the productivity of your software development team? There have been many attempts to answer this question, yet a solid measure continues to elude the industry. For instance, counting output such as the number of lines of code produced is insufficient as there’s little point...

What’s New in Tasktop Integration Hub 18.1

Tasktop Integration Hub 18.1 is available today with several exciting new features for flowing folder structures, configuring state transitions, and deploying Docker images. We’ve also added support for Sparx Systems EA, an enterprise modeling tool, via Sparx Systems Pro Cloud Server. Create Folder Structures on the Fly   Many organizations rely heavily on folder structures...

10 predictions and trends for enterprise software development and delivery in 2018

Predicting the future of enterprise software development and delivery can often feel like hammering Jell-O to a wall. The industry is a perpetually evolving beast, awash with nuance, relativity and disruption. Just when you think you’ve got your head around it all, new technology and ideas can gatecrash the party overnight. That said, we’ve dusted...