Why You Should Adopt Agile Portfolio Management

If you’re managing work using an agile approach, it can be challenging to keep resources focused on the right projects that are best for the business. As your teams execute work, you need to ensure they are delivering maximum value in support of business objectives. When organizations are looking to begin agile portfolio management, it...

The Power of the Project Tollgate

The tollgate approach is a popular method in project management designed to help industries, governments, and organizations complete projects efficiently and more effectively. The method gets its name from the fact that teams aren’t permitted to advance to the next phase of a project before they meet a set of pre-determined criteria — similar to...

An Executive’s Guide to Making Informed Investment Decisions

How do you make investment decisions? What tools do you rely on? Are these tools up-to-speed with today’s digital transformation? If you hesitate on any of your answers, this is the blog for you. While we have already discussed previously in this blog series how to best measure digital transformation, how to deliver on strategy...

Project to Product: A Cambrian Explosion of DevOps Tools

Any discussion of how to scale the benefits of DevOps invariably lands on tools. The planning, tracking, automation, and management tools we use define the “ground truth” of where and how work happens. One of the most interesting, and at times challenging, aspects of agile and DevOps transformations is the sheer volume of tools involved....

Project to Product: Modular Architectures Make You Agile in the Long Run

Gene Kim, one of the authors of The DevOps Handbook, once told me that organizations that require a developer to take 10 people out to lunch to get an API change done appear to have lower IT performance. We hypothesized that an overly high “lunch factor” would impede DevOps transformations, and added some questions on...

UK Businesses and Next Industrial Revolution

Like previous industrial revolutions, the one which is just beginning, the age of digitalization, robots and autonomous machines, will have a huge effect on the employees who will find themselves replaced in the production process. During past industrial revolutions there was a period of adjustment, sometimes lasting a generation or longer, during which those people...

Holding Brainstorming Sessions That Are Actually Productive

Gathering together your team to brainstorm on issues facing your project can be very beneficial. Firstly, there’s the sheer number of fresh ideas that can come from getting all that brainpower together and secondly, the variety of different views means that it’s possible to consider a number of different approaches to the same task. It’s...

5 Planview ProjectPlace Hidden Treasures You Need to Try [Infographic]

Planview ProjectPlace has turned 20! That’s two decades of innovation all in the name of efficient and effective project collaboration. First, we would like to thank our thousands of global customers for joining us on this journey as their feedback and contributions play a critical role in advancing ProjectPlace innovation every day. Second, we would...

Project to Product: Lean manufacturing and the end of the manufacturing line analogy

I recently visited the BMW Group’s Leipzig plant. My goal was to brainstorm with BMW Group IT leaders on how we could seamlessly integrate production lines with the software lifecycle. I was also interested in learning more about how BMW approaches car production as I was in the midst of defining the Flow Framework™ for...

Project Management Chaos and How to Survive It

Advancements in workplace technology make it easier for teams to collaborate and complete tasks from opposite sides of the globe. But despite helpful communication and project management platforms, inefficiency is as problematic as ever – so much so that European organizations are losing an estimated 20 working days a year due to inefficient working practices....