Your path to business agility
Innovation. It’s one of the most important elements pushing organizations forward. In today’s tech-driven society, innovation is more important than ever. Companies that experience long-term success are able to stay in touch with the needs of their customers, constantly innovating so their products and services address those needs. We all know what happens to companies...
How do you build a company-wide system that empowers every Agile team in your organization? Anyone can scale Agile, but it takes a true leader to build the framework that actually amplifies Agile’s benefits so that everyone is working cohesively to deliver innovation and continuous improvement. In this blog, we’re going to look at the...
Writing a project plan is one of the most basic of project management skills, but it doesn’t mean that it’s necessarily one of the easiest to master. Taking it as a guiding document that will define the timing, costs and scope of your project it is also rife with risk and opportunities for disaster. For...
Despite the problems caused by Brexit, such as legislative inaction, lost growth and economic uncertainty, business in the UK still seems to be booming. This can be ascertained from its employment figures which continue to break records and show no sign of slowing down. Figures show that there are now 32.7 million people working in...
Whether you are looking to prepare your organization for change or ways to fast-forward your PPM’s on-going digital transformation, the Gartner Program and Portfolio Management Summit is the place for guidance, insights and tactics to inform today’s PPM leader. As a five-time sponsor of the Gartner PPM Summit, Planview AdaptiveWork has seen it evolve into...
The 2019 Gartner Enterprise Architecture and Technology Innovation Summit was held in Orlando, FL on May 14th and 15th. Summit guest keynote speakers, experienced practitioners, and Gartner analysts provided some valuable perspectives and takeaways for attendees to consider. There were so many great presenters including Saul Brand and James McGovern, both Senior Director Analysts at...
Up until now, we’ve spent a lot of time looking at how a well-planned Kanban design can empower IT Operations, making it easier for team members to complete tasks within their agreed-upon timeframes. As such, Kanban has proven itself to be an invaluable tool for team-based project management, giving managers more control over resources and capacity within their...
When you come in to work, do your teammates greet you? Are jokes told on your team? Especially bad ones? Do you chat about anything besides work? Trust is essential to teams. Literature like The Five Dysfunctions of a Team and The Phoenix Project remind us of this, as well as how important it is...
We’ve talked a lot about the benefits of Agile and how they’re used to help teams work smarter and more efficiently. Perhaps you already know how to implement a team-based Agile system that prioritizes innovation and continuous improvement. But do you know how to scale that system across an entire organization, so everyone in your...
Cybercrime is becoming one of the biggest threats facing international business, with one major survey showing that 43% of businesses had been affected by it and the global cost of cybercrime is projected to rise to $6 trillion by 2021. Naturally, with it posing such an intense threat to businesses, project managers cannot just ignore...
