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...

Transparency and maximizing project team performance

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...

Top 3 reasons why projects fail

We all know that, generally speaking, project managers are great people who know what they’re doing. Sure, some score higher on the “nice” and “smart” scale than others, but that’s true of any field. However, despite all of the great project managers out there, we have to admit that the overall success rate for project...

Cultural breakthrough: 5 change management tips to support your digital transformation

Digital transformations typically demand major shifts in thinking, processes and behavior across the organization. It’s rarely, if ever, easy – especially when it comes to scaling and sustaining the transformation. Inevitably there will be a cultural shift, especially when you consider all the moving parts: the software delivery teams, the product owners, the multiple business...

Tips for Avoiding Burnout and Improving Team Morale

Professional burnout has always been an issue in the working world and no generation has had it particularly easy, but that doesn’t mean project managers shouldn’t always be searching for ways to avoid it and to keep their best team on the field. This is because burnout essentially means being exhausted, not having the energy...

Two Possible Solutions for UK’s Low Productivity

Britain has been confounding many experts recently as its economy continues to surge, despite the political and economic uncertainty caused by its decision to leave the European Union (i.e. Brexit), the world’s largest trading bloc. While its financial good health can be explained by increased exports due to a weaker pound sterling and firms stockpiling...

Securing the software delivery value stream for safer digital innovation

The Bifurcation of Security In recent years, we’re seeing a clear split within the security community. There’s the “traditional” enterprise security focused on auditable controls, segregation of duties, approvals, change management, etc. These traditional controls are well-aligned with the waterfall model, but when applied to Agile software delivery organizations, a disaster inevitably occurs. And then...