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We recently did a webinar with Richard Knaster, SAFe® Fellow at Scaled Agile, Inc, and Jon Terry, Chief Evangelist here at Planview, called “Lean Portfolio Management: What is it and how is it changing value delivery?” We encourage you to listen to the full webinar, but in the meantime, read below for answers to the...
The time spent on a repetitive configuration process before completing a purchase order can negatively impact your software product’s time to value. For pre-sales and consulting engineers, this process usually involves repeatedly installing and configuring software to achieve a minimum-viable use case – i.e., meeting minimum requirements to prove that the software works as promised....
Though in project management, like in most professions, practice makes perfect, it is often the simplest project management mistakes which can keep causing problems. This can easily happen when trying to find the incremental gains that will give you an extra two percent productivity but losing sight of the basics that costs you 20 percent....
It’s no secret that Kanban boards have become a popular tool to enhance the way work flows within an organization. It has long since been a favorite for operations teams who don’t work well with Scrum, but now there’s been more focus on how Kanban can be used to enhance product development teams as well....
Teams that are brought together can’t be expected to immediately gel and perform at the height of their abilities. As a project manager, it is your role to ensure that positive team development occurs so that they can reach maximum productivity. Along with the competencies required for performing your own tasks, developing a team requires...
Delivery timelines are a part of every project plan and serve as essential milestones both to guide a project team and for determining project health. They are also a signifier of the implicit agreement between you and the client or end-user, you say something will be delivered by a certain time, so they presume that...
With the blistering pace of technological, economic, and socio-political changes, it’s clear that enterprises have to change—not just in the products and services they provide, or the platforms through which they provide them—but also in the way they plan, fund, and execute work. For many, this change means scaling Agile. The firms that have thrived...
Marketing compliance refers to the adherence of your marketing team to the industry and governmental regulations that apply to their activities. Regulations are put in place to ensure that all participants in the domain abide by the standards of proper and legal practice, so marketing compliance also means that you value your customers and want...
One key area of importance for Planview AdaptiveWork is our focus on employee engagement. We believe that when employees and teams are focused, active and able to see how their work fits into the big picture, they’ll become more engaged, driven and productive. The opposite of employee engagement is playfully portrayed, to the theme of Netflix’s...
There is almost no product, company, or organization that isn’t connected globally. A global network of resources provides us the ability to work around the clock with a diverse set of tools and people to develop one final product or solution. But in the process, it’s easy to become disconnected in the absence of collaborative...
