Your path to business agility
The UK government has been taking steps to deal with the gender pay gap that is prevalent across the country. The initiative from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, has obligated all public, private and voluntary organizations with more than 250 employees to publish six different figures relating to the gender pay gap. These include...
Project management plays a pivotal role in helping organizations meet their business objectives. Without it, companies would have difficulty planning actionable strategies and implementing solutions to challenges as they arise. After all, it’s the role of the project manager to predict dangers, assign and manage resources across departments, and come up with calculated action plans...
Just three days ago, Atlassian announced the launch of Jira Ops, “a unified incident command center” that gives teams a single place for response coordination. Jira Ops, which aims to help teams resolve outages faster and incur fewer incidents over time, is available through Atlassian’s early access program and will be generally available in early...
So far in this blog series, we have defined strategy, covered the basis of strategic planning, and discussed who to include in your strategic planning team. If you need a refresher on the first two phases of this rescue mission, read through parts 1 and 2 below: Part 1: Failing to Deliver Strategy… Slowly Part...
Photo: Manivasagan N, https://www.dtnext.in I’ve written many times that portfolio management is about change: changing attitudes, changing tactics, and changing how you invest your limited funds and focus your talented teams. We all know change is difficult, leading us away from a known environment and into an unknown future. But the issue at hand is...
At DOES London 2018 in June, we were delighted to see that IT organizations around the world are increasingly focusing on how work flows from ideation to production across their software delivery value streams to build better products faster. It is now abundantly clear that enterprises must think “end-to-end” and connect all the specialist teams...
Any project manager knows that collaboration can be a struggle, especially when teams are relying on disparate and outdated tools. Such applications affect daily interactions and can severely limit productivity. However, this doesn’t have to be the case. With Planview Projectplace, teams can improve collaboration to deliver products to market faster, keep project costs within...
See if this sounds familiar: your organization’s strategic plan is constructed at the executive level, broken down into an annual plan that is led by finance, then operationalized by the PMO and other groups in the organization. Yet, as soon as you begin to figure out exactly how the plan is to be executed, change...
Spreadsheets can be fine in the right context, but all too often they’re being used for everything apart from their intended use. Excel files are also one of the worst ways to try and coordinate projects and task-flows, resulting in endless iterations adjusting for project updates with no-one really ever sure they have up-to-date information...
Wait, what? When is it bad to eliminate risks? Many companies we speak with are keen to score their portfolio of initiatives across a number of dimensions like: Strategic fit Market value Development cost Technical risk Commercial risk So far so good. The process goes awry when teams, seduced by the idea of simplicity, distill...
