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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...
Working out of spreadsheets can make life stressful—unnecessarily so. This is only compounded when teams are also spread out across departments and geographic locations. Take Allen for instance. As a global PMO team member for the aviation organization, his workdays are often extremely stressful. Not only must he help monitor work across three continents and...
Very few projects, if any at all, ever flow so completely smoothly that they don’t require problem solving skills at one stage or another. Depending on the field these may get kicked up to a manager or to you, the project manager, or individual team members may be encouraged to solve them themselves. The problem...
If you’re new to project management, you may find it incredibly difficult to delegate tasks, track resources, and keep up with team members. The thought of juggling multiple responsibilities at once might even be a bit overwhelming – don’t worry; that’s normal. The good news is that great project management practices go a long way...
2018 marks the eleventh year Planview has participated in the American Heart Association’s Austin Heart Walk, and I am thrilled to be one of our team captains this year—for the leading team no less. (My team rocks!) Here at Planview, we go all-out in making this fundraiser a fun competition, to see which team can raise...
There are two main reasons why project handovers occur. It can be a scheduled part of a project plan, whereby at the end of a certain phase the project is handed over to another team for further work or indeed for final delivery to the client themselves. The other reason is between project managers when,...
