Addressing Your Concerns About Agile Project Management

The following content is taken from the popular whitepaper, “Agile Project Management: What’s the story?” written by Jerry Manas. It’s so good, we wanted to make it free to our readers and give it everlasting life on our blog for your enjoyment. Since the beginning of the Agile movement, defenders of traditional methods have been...

Ensuring the Life Blood of Your Business: Data Visibility

In the first three parts of this series, we covered the importance of addressing the challenges of modern portfolio management. Increasing complexity, addressing it through innovation investment and strategy alignment, and best practices for execution are critical—and data visibility is key. Catch up on anything you may have missed by reading through the first three...

Portfolio and Resource Management Tips to Gift Your PMO This Holiday Season

It’s the holiday season! This can mean one of two things. 1) You’ve already checked out and are in “vacation mode” or 2) you’re absolutely slammed with work that always appears right at this time of the year. Whether you have ample free time or not nearly enough, you’ll still want to find time to...

Unique Ways to Say “Thank You” to Your Team

Behind every project success there’s also an excellent team and though your team may only just be “doing its job”, the difference between doing that job well, compared to averagely or poorly can be the difference between stunning success and major failure. When things work out for the former instead of the latter it’s natural...

Britain Faces Sharp Declines in Its Economy After Brexit

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has given a scathing assessment of Britain’s prospects after it leaves the EU. The Brexit vote has dominated British politics ever since it took place in 2016 as the ruling Conservative party seems to lurch from crisis to crisis, with no deal for trade agreed and with the country due...

Keeping the PMO Relevant in Times of Change

With its Horizons conference in October, Planview pulled together a large cohort of its customers for two days to discuss the challenges and goals ahead for project management professionals and their organizations. During the event, I had the opportunity during one of the keynotes to present some of the views of 451 Research on how...

Project To Product, Software, And Safety: Getting In The Same Plane

This blog was originally posted on the IT Revolution blog on December 18, 2018. Project to Product tells a story of what we can learn about building software by walking down the BMW Group Leipzig plant production line. The other wonder of mass production that makes repeated appearances throughout the book is the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, which has...

Welcome Planview IdeaPlace to the Planview Family

We have some exciting news to share with you today: Spigit®, the world’s innovation management software leader, is joining Planview®! At Planview, we have always believed the innovation management segment is a perfect complement to our work and resource management (WRM) vision of connecting strategy and delivery. Planview IdeaPlace brings new capabilities to Planview customers...

Contracting Tips for Project Managers

As a project manager you can often be expected to negotiate, review, execute and terminate contracts. There can be any number of reasons for these contracts, from agreements with vendors to outsourced assistance to the understandings with clients or end users. Though they can be such a large part of the job, contracts and project...

Idea to Impact, Amplified with Planview

Today is an exciting day for the Planview IdeaPlace business and all the customers we serve, as we announce that Planview IdeaPlace has been acquired by Planview, the global leader in work and resource management (WRM). IdeaPlace’s mission and commitment has long been to support our customers as they drive sustained innovation by engaging employees...