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Baseball teams rise and fall on a pitcher’s skill at mixing up speeds and locations from the mound. When choosing a pitch, it’s crucial to predict how the batter will respond. The difference at the office is that you’re all on the same team. When you propose something new, it’s helpful to think through how...
For the majority of organizations, the journey to business agility has been somewhat successful, but not nearly as transformative and rewarding as they had hoped and expected. As such, some organizations are wondering if agile is here to stay. The answer is yes…and no. Yes, agile will be around for a long, long time because...
UK Manufacturing Growth Spikes to a Three-Year High Despite the recent recession, unemployment in the UK has not reached the same dire levels as other countries. In fact, as of February-April 2017, the UK Office of National Statistics listed the unemployment rate (for those age 16 and over, seasonally adjusted) at just 4.6%. This is...
For individual employees, the effort to separate signal from noise—to eliminate distraction and focus on what matters—may feel like little more than a daily annoyance. But for businesses, distraction at scale become a bottom-line problem. Work takes longer. Creativity suffers. As employees and teams struggle to find their focus—and struggle even more to maintain it—organizations...
As the technology industry faces a growing reckoning of public trust, the all-hands meeting has become a Silicon Valley staple. From Google to Facebook to Uber, CEOs open themselves up to tough questions from employees, especially in times of crisis. At least, that’s what appearances would suggest. Unfortunately, these confessionals often come off as choreographed,...
Generally, if someone is coming to your organization for a service it’s because they can’t do it themselves. This automatically puts you in the position of “subject-matter expert” and paints a clear picture of the disparity in knowledge between the two of you. Unfortunately, however, this information gap is often left unaddressed, which can lead...
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....
