Collectively Deliver on Strategy with Digital Transformation [Video]

We’re in the age of digital transformation, and with that, the pace of innovation is greater than ever before, customer expectations and demands are higher, and the competition is more intense. The success of an organization hinges on its ability to collectively deliver on strategy, yet many struggle to do so, as they are bound...

How Value Stream Management can help CIOs transform their business

Please note: the author of this blog and star of the video, Adam, is a fictional character based on the real experiences of CIOs and IT organizations that Tasktop has spoken to and/or worked with. If you’re an under-pressure CIO who is struggling to transform their IT organization despite your best efforts, you’ve come to...

PMPs: 5 Great Things You Probably Don’t Know About Earning PDUs

For many certified Project Management Professionals (PMPs), the quest for professional development units (PDUs) is something between an unwelcome task and a dreadful obligation. Of course, it’s not that PMPs are anti-learning. Rather, it’s that they’re so busy doing their jobs, that the deadline to obtain the required amount of PDUs to renew their certification...

An Executive’s Guide to Measuring Digital Transformation

In this digital era, there exists the new challenge of keeping your organization up to speed. Customer expectations are higher, the speed at which you must deliver products to market is faster, and the competition is more aggressive. Organizations today are expected to transition from being product- and project-centric to customer-centric, which can require a...

Planview IdeaPlace Client Awards: And the Winner Is…

Every year at Spigit’s annual conference, Ignite, we recognize clients in our innovation community whose programs have achieved remarkable feats. This year, we celebrated our client’s success in several categories, including: Best Employee Engagement Launch of the Year New Program of the Year Let’s take a closer look at the winners, their stories, and key...

Two bar charts you’re probably not using to understand your portfolio – Enrich Consulting

If I asked you to fill in this blank: Portfolio management uses many ________ charts. You’d probably shout “bubble!” without hesitation. Indeed, frontier charts, pipeline charts, and risk vs. reward charts all effectively employ scatter and bubble charts to describe your portfolio. But the humble bar chart is no slouch when you’re looking for portfolio...

Enterprise Project Management: How to Recover from “Just Checking In” Syndrome

There is nothing wrong with the basic idea of “just checking in.” But most of the time, on the project management landscape this phrase usually means: “Hey there — remember me? I’m either your boss, your colleague or your customer, and I’m not getting the information that I need from you. What’s going on!?” Fortunately,...

Announcing ‘Project to Product’ book and the Flow Framework™

I’m delighted to announce that my book Project to Product will be released at the DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 (Las Vegas), on Oct 22, 2018. As startups disrupt every market and tech giants pull further ahead of entrenched businesses, the majority of enterprise IT organizations are facing an existential crisis. Either they quickly become much...

2018 Survey Results Show Businesses Have Yet to Conquer Project Collaboration [Infographic]

Team work makes the dream work, or so it should. Many organizations continue to struggle with proper project collaboration, causing team work to become a source of frustration and stress rather than an asset. Yet, these same organizations understand that team work is essential to achieving strategic goals in today’s world of work—they simply haven’t...

How leading IT organizations are using Value Stream Integration to generate more business value through software delivery

Earlier this year, Tasktop analyzed 300 value stream diagrams of the largest U.S. enterprises across major industries such as financial services and healthcare to better understand how organizations are delivering software at scale. We wanted to know exactly how global leaders were successfully combating the threat posed by digital-savvy businesses to continue to be innovative...