A Real-World Success Story: CO-OP Financial Services Reduces Project Delivery Delays by 92%

Knowing how to manage projects with proper resource management allocation is a key determining factor when achieving your organization’s goals. Learn more about the success Steven Wood, Project Portfolio Administrator, had when CO-OP Financial Services used portfolio and resource management to gain the much-needed insight to empower decisions about prioritizing resources, justifying staffing, and forecasting...

Innovation & Disruption: Lessons from the Sports & Fashion World

Sports and fashion are not always regarded as the best proving grounds for business models and new approaches, but sometimes they can be the perfect petri dish for innovation and disruption. The belief is that talent always wins, but in many cases, teams and companies can overcome a deficiency with an emphasis on ingenuity and...

Gender Pay Gap Is Growing Despite Declaration Obligation

The lack of transparency across many businesses means that major problems can go unnoticed and undealt with for a long time. On a project level this could be solved by getting better project management software, but on a national level it requires a much broader solution. The gender pay gap is just one such issue...

Innovative Strategic Planning at Hyper-Speed

Do you know anyone, or any organization, that at the end of the year looked back at their annual plan and honestly said everything went according to plan? Did you ever have a year where nothing changed? No new competitors, no changes in market conditions, or budget cuts? Of course not. Plans that don’t anticipate...

Understand How Your Brain Works to Develop Better Habits in the Office

If you want to change a habit that gets in your way, get ready to battle your own brain. The mind that creates good habits is the same one that thwarts them. Imagine an automatic response that you want to change. Say, for instance, obsessively checking email throughout the workday instead of setting aside blocks...

How to Instill Employee Loyalty

Knowing how to instill employee loyalty in your team is vital for a project to succeed. It means being able to keep your team together and focused on tasks, as well as inspiring confidence in leadership decisions and a willingness to give their maximum effort to see the project through. Employee loyalty also means that,...

Continuous Planning Equals Business Agility

Your organization’s ability to react quickly and pivot to changes and disruptions is crucial to remaining relevant to your customers. In a recent webcast, Planning Deconstructed, Heather Westomoreland, Planview Planning Capabilities Product Manager and Angie Sarmiento, Planview Solutions Marketing Manager discuss continuous planning and the steps organizations can take to have a more proactive role...

The Benefits of Scaling Agile

Agile has become a hot topic in project management. Many top businesses around the world are interested in scaling Agile across entire organizations. But despite its recent surge in popularity, Agile is far from a new concept in project management. Officially created in 2001, Agile’s origins go back multiple decades and have been used to help teams...

The anatomy of a defect

The following defect is to some extent typical of those encountered by connector developers1 at Tasktop, inasmuch as there exists a typical defect. The ‘to some extent’ qualifier is there as most defects are either too straightforward to write a blog about, or conversely too complex and/or delve too deeply into our code internals to...