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.

Here’s Your Agile Track Recap from Accelerate

In case you missed it, Planview’s premier customer conference was bigger and better than ever this year!  The virtual event attracted almost 2,800 registrants from more than 45 countries on Sept. 21-22.   On the jam-packed agenda were several presentations, customer stories, and roundtable discussions aimed at supporting Agile leaders at all levels of the organization.  If you didn’t get to attend these engaging sessions, read on to get the scoop!  Becoming Agile and Beyond  The Agile track “Becoming Agile...

3 Reasons Your SAFe® Journey Has Lost Its Way 

With the 2021 Global SAFe® Summit only a week away (September 27 – October 1), the software delivery community will come together once again to tackle that ever-pressing question: just how do you marry technical agility with business agility to support customers more effectively?  The most popular framework for scaling software development, SAFe continues to...

9 Ways to Get Ideas Brewing with Instant Coffee

Getting your best ideas brewing can be difficult, especially if you don’t have the right tools for the job. No matter what type of work you do, you likely do a fair amount of brainstorming, planning, and “noodling” in your daily work.  We created Instant Coffee to help facilitate better idea generation — whether you’re...

Everything You Need to Know About OKRs

Do you know everything you need to know about OKRs? OKRs, which stands for Objectives and Key Results, is a widely popular process that companies use to link organizational and team goals to measurable outcomes. OKRs help to answer these two questions: To help you achieve your objective of learning more about Objectives and Key...

Buying Agile Program Management Software? Start here.

Agile Program Management describes the way Agile organizations plan, organize, and execute initiatives in a complex, iterative environment. Agile Program Management builds upon the foundation of Agile project management, and provides guidance for how to coordinate, fund, plan, and execute initiatives at scale.   Having the right solution to facilitate Agile Program Management can make or break your initiative.   Like with any software...

3 Most Common Excuses for Ignoring User Feedback in Federal Software Development

Organizations that can tap into the power of user feedback have seen enormous improvements in ROI over the past decades. It started with Agile via iterative deliveries of user value on a set cadence, usually every two to three weeks. As top-performers (those that understood and embraced Agile fundamentals) began to separate from their competitors,...

Taming the Agile Chaos: Real Stories from the Trenches

Scaling Agile has always been a quest to deliver more of the right value, but what happens when it isn’t working the way you’d hoped? How do you determine that your organization isn’t as Agile as it thinks it is? How do you know when your scaling Agile practices need to change? Worse yet, how...

Advanced Kanban Board Templates for Agile Marketing

In my last post, 8 Kanban Board Templates for Agile Marketing, I discussed several common marketing functions — content marketing, demand generation, marketing operations, product marketing, events, and PR and social media – and provided Kanban board templates from Planview AgilePlace™ to help marketing teams and their stakeholders plan, track, and manage their work more...

Agile2021: 20 Sessions for Scaling Agile

No matter where you are along your Agile journey, you’ll want to block off some time on July 19-22, 2021, to (virtually, of course) attend Agile2021!  This four-day event is truly a global celebration of Agile: The program schedule is using a follow-the-sun format, with 200 sessions taking place in three regions around the globe...

How to Become a Scrum Master

In the Star Wars franchise, becoming a Jedi master takes many years of rigorous physical and psychological training. Fortunately, learning how to become a Scrum master is somewhat of a less burdensome commitment — and there are no Sith Lords or Death Stars to worry about, and Yoda isn’t constantly finding fault with your efforts...