Project Managers vs. PowerPoint: 4 Tough Battles, 1 Winning Solution

Project managers face some epic clashes on the enterprise landscape. For example, keeping line managers from recruiting (or just as often, re-recruiting) essential project staff can involve tactical genius that would have impressed Napoleon. And telling some customers that their “simple” change request is out of scope may involve a series of conversations that make...

How to Spark a Lasting Love Connection Between Business Agility & Distributed Teams

In theory, business agility and distributed teams are a match made in heaven. After all, business agility is all about working faster and smarter, and enterprises with remote workers should be able to tick both of those boxes. After all, what’s nimbler than being able to turn anywhere into a workspace, at any time? Yet...

How to Get Started with Work and Resource Management

To close up this blog series based on the Ventana Research whitepaper, “Five Ways to Increase Efficiency and Innovate Faster,” I will cover how you can get started with work and resource management. Before I get into how you can minimize any complexity around adopting a new system, make sure you’re caught up on the...

Why Measuring the Value of Your Innovation Program from Day One is Important

Every year Planview IdeaPlace conducts its “State of Crowdsourced Innovation” customer study to better understand how our customers build and manage their innovation programs. As we analyze this data year over year, we can see trends emerge and see how what’s important to them changes over time. One of the key findings from this research...

UK Businesses May Be Under Reporting Their Gender Wage Gaps

For some years, the UK has been lagging behind many of its peers in the developed world when it comes to the fight against workplace inequality. One of the main initiatives that has been introduced to reverse this trend is new legislation that requires all companies with more than 250 employees to provide authorities with...

Beyond CI/CD: why you need both Release Automation and Value Stream Integration

This week at DOES London 2018, we spoke about looking “Beyond CI/CD” to take greater control of your DevOps transformation to accelerate your enterprise software delivery. By implementing both Release Automation and Value Stream Integration, organizations, agencies and institutions obtain a potent force that enables them to connect, visualize, measure and optimize how they plan,...

Winners vs. Whiners – Enrich Consulting

Are you picking winners in your product portfolio or picking whiners? What might sound like a silly question has a very serious foundation: in company after company we observe funding going to projects supported by the most vocal, politically-savvy, or persistent leaders. Meanwhile, those projects best aligned with strategy or those developing novel technologies, markets,...

Get Together, Go Faster: DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2018 Recap

The theme for DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2018 was Get Together, Go Faster – and while that was definitely not my experience going through customs at Heathrow Airport, it rang true through many of the plenary and breakout sessions. This year, Tasktop was a platinum sponsor, a book signing sponsor and had four speaking presentations...

Five Marketing Trends Not to Ignore in 2018

The pace of change in marketing trends can be head-spinning. From creating virtual reality experiences to trying to find influencers before they get outdated to everybody shifting their marketing focus to Gen Z after you’ve just spent the past three years reading dozens of articles about getting your message right for Millennials, the world of...

How to Avoid High-Profile Blunders with Your Digital Transformation

Organizations undertaking digital transformation should implement work and resource management solutions to balance commitments for digital capability development against financial objectives. In his latest Work & Resource Management blog on CIO.com, Planview CEO Greg Gilmore takes a closer look at digital stumbles from industry giants and identifies key opportunities for work and resource management solutions...