Leading the conversation on digital connected work
I realize that collaboration is a big buzzword in project management and really all business strategy and delivery areas, right? Collaborate for success. The best teams collaborate. Our project teams and our projects would be performing better if we were collaborating. We’ve all heard these and about a hundred other phrases, concepts and excuses just...
“84% of executives say organizational agility is necessary to succeed in digital transformation. Yet, only 27% consider their organizations as highly agile.” – Forbes Insights/PMI When it comes to increasing productivity, start by looking at the agility of your organization. Are you able to adapt to different ways of work? This doesn’t mean asking people...
“A unified approach will enable every manager and worker to see what work should be done and what is required to achieve it, which is key to fostering not only alignment but engagement.” – Mark Smith, CEO and Chief Research Officer, Ventana Research Throughout this blog series we have: explored the obstacles and challenges C-level...
The back cover of the Project to Product book states that: “All author royalties will be donated to the P2P scholarship and not-for-profit organizations supporting diversity, women, and minorities in technology”. This post provides a short summary into why I decided to do this, and why I think this mission is important and aligned with...
Project managers must become master jugglers to be adept at their role, from trying to stretch personnel to fill gaps or switching a work schedule back-to-front due to supplier delays. A large amount of this juggling is also down to having a slow and confusing approval process. Task strands can get held up, not able...
As a product leader, your job is to ensure business growth and innovation. However, the product development process is becoming more difficult due to the push for smarter, more connected products. The convergence of products and technology is fundamentally changing the way companies think and conduct business—a shift that is forcing leaders to navigate through...
Planview IdeaPlace recently hosted a very informative webinar with one of our technology partners, Topcoder – the largest talent network and crowdsourcing platform consisting of over one million data scientists, programmers, and technology architects. Topcoder’s VP of Marketing, Clinton Bonner, joined Gareth Bradley, Planview IdeaPlace’s VP of Product Management, for a discussion about the role...
The state of Britain’s economy might seem to be going from strength to strength, with unemployment now at its lowest since the winter of 1974-1975. This headline record, however, masks other data which is showing that the boom might not be the magical panacea to all the fears many have about the fallout from Brexit....
No question about it—today’s work environment can be chaotic. Not only do projects tend to pile up, but most project managers struggle to keep track of everything their team has on its plate. This gets magnified when the team is geographically dispersed or when members consist of third party vendors (like agencies). How do you...
The following content is based on the whitepaper, “Bigger Than a Breadbox: 10 Tips for Better Project Estimates, Part 1,” written by Jerry Manas. Accurate project estimates are a key success factor for individual projects. That’s a given. Yet, little is written on the trickle-down effects of poor estimates—surprising, as poor estimates are a leading...
