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Though there are considerable similarities between project workflow and the management of a specific project, the differences and what they can mean for consistency throughout all of your projects mean that workflow is an important element to understand and integrate into your processes. Project workflow is a system, a default way of approaching every project...
The review of Project to Product continues from Value Stream Management with the Flow Framework™, with a focus on Value Stream Metrics to track the flow of business value in our software development lifecycle. The Flow Framework™ is a new framework created by Mik Kersten, CEO of Tasktop. It helps us bridge business and engineering with a common...
Millennials in the UK, just like in much of the rest of the developed world, are causing much upheaval in the workplace as their shifts in attitude challenges the outlooks and expectations of older management and the organizations they work for. Green collar jobs One significant area of change is the focus on environmental awareness...
The uncertainty for business in the UK remains palpable as the country edges towards its exit from the European Union (EU) in March 2019. The latest figures show that consumer spending has begun to tail off significantly, with total year-to-year UK retail sales of 0.7% for September being much slower than the 2.3% growth for...
Earlier this month our CEO, Mik Kersten, studied the tea leaves to provide five predictions for the software industry over the coming decade – but what about the more immediate future? A lot happened in 2018, for both Tasktop and the wider industry, not to mention the geopolitical landscape (but we won’t go into that...
The following content is based on the whitepaper, “Bigger Than a Breadbox: 10 Tips for Better Project Estimates, Part 2,” written by Jerry Manas. For your reading convenience, we’ve decided to give it everlasting life here on the blog. So far in this series, we’ve examined a number of ways to improve problems with project...
We continue from Remember Value Stream Mapping and drill into the content of Project to Product. With every chapter I read, the significance of the Project to Product book and the Flow Framework™ appears. After reading about the technical revolution, the Age of Software & Digital, and the uncertainty around the next turning point, I was intrigued by...
For many existing in a standard, office-based work environment, “working from home” can often seem completely interchangeable with “remote work” but the truth is that the two terms are actually very far from being synonymous. As technology changes and planning and working with teams without any physical contact becomes more common, the entire dynamic of...
A new release of Tasktop Integration Hub, 19.1, is available today, including support for Jira Cloud API changes related to GDPR, a new connector for XebiaLabs XL Release, and features that make it easy to move project routings between integrations and provide one final update to twinless artifacts. Below are the release highlights. For full details...
The following content is taken from the whitepaper, “Portfolio-Driven Performance: The 7 Process Areas That Drive IT and Business Results,” written by Jerry Manas. To make it more easily accessible to you, we are giving it everlasting life here on the blog. We’ve discussed how portfolio-driven performance improves project delivery, how and why you must...
