Leading the conversation on digital connected work
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,...
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 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...
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...
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....
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...
