Your path to business agility
No one wants to be haunted, whether that means by fears, bad decisions, or actual ghosts. They’re all equally awful—well, being haunted by the supernatural may achieve a new level of awful. However, holding on to outdated product innovation processes can have the same effect as these nagging haunts. The longer they stick around, the...
Most enterprises do not yet think of their delivery pipeline as a product. When I mentioned this concept to a few folks, they literally slapped themselves on the head and said something like “that makes so much sense and it so simple, why didn’t we think of that!” – Carmen DeArdo, Tasktop It’s been a...
The PMO is under fire … but why? Perhaps the business is evolving and the focus of the PMO has shifted. Is digital transformation and the need to drive growth strategies across the organization creating complexity? Can the PMO handle it, or is it dangerously slow in responding to change and delivering business value? If...
There’s a certain phenomenon that seems to happen right around this time every year as the days begin to get darker and the weather starts sending shivers down your spine. All of a sudden everything to turn into a project management horror show. Printers start jamming, important emails disappear from inboxes and it seems like...
How does a 149 year old company with over 17,000 employees worldwide find valuable ideas to pursue to solve its biggest challenges? Just ask Jeff George, VP of Americas R&D at one of the top consumer packaged goods companies in the world and Planview IdeaPlace customer, Campbell Soup Company. Recently, an article on HR Daily...
The nightmares of Brexit, the UK’s decision to leave the European Union, are beginning to edge closer to reality. Spurred on by political discord which has prevented the ruling Conservative party from offering a viable post-Brexit plan to the EU, a “no-deal” Brexit, which will see the country’s interactions with its biggest trading partner lapse...
“Great people make companies great, and a huge part of any company’s culture is its diversity across a wide array of factors…You need to hire people who compliment your weaknesses, not just those who mirror your strengths.” – Greg Gilmore, CEO, Planview[1] If there’s one thing Greg Gilmore knows, it’s that his employees matter. It’s...
It doesn’t matter if you’re the most valuable company on the market or a new startup, companies are always changing and adapting to market conditions. Over the last 11 years, to meet those ever changing needs, we’ve seen crowdsourced innovation evolve into a key component in corporate strategies. Companies are leveraging crowdsourced innovation to achieve...
A new release of Tasktop Integration Hub is available today. Version 18.4 includes new prebuilt integration patterns for faster integration, point-and-click configuration of code traceability use cases for Git-based repositories, and support for Trello, a project management and collaboration tool from Atlassian. 18.4 also includes features that further minimize repository load when Tasktop scans for...
In his opening remarks to the Las Vegas iteration of DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018, Gene Kim set the tone for Day One by providing an alternative definition of DevOps via Jonathan Smart (formerly of Barclays): “Better Value Faster, Safer, Happier.” At the London show in June, Jonathan expanded on that by extolling the pressing need...
