How to Harness Collaborative Efficiencies

In today’s highly competitive and rapidly changing marketplace, businesses are investing in the development of efficient tools and effective practices that ensure growth and sustainability in their enterprises. Being an effective project manager is about juggling a large number of responsibilities and duties that can make the most of your team and resources. One of...

New Perspectives from the The 2018 Project Collaboration Survey [Webcast]

Project collaboration is important—that’s a given. The world of work today consists largely of projects that involve teams of people, as opposed to assignments completed by individuals. However, these teams face the challenges of having to deliver on goals and deadlines while being spread out across departments and geographic locations. Though not always easy, project...

Seven Reasons Why Value Stream Integration Improves Software Quality Assurance

Ask any CIO, quality assurance in enterprise software delivery is tricky business. After all, unlike the production of physical products, software is created via invisible knowledge work – work that travels through a complex network of activity between conception and delivery. It’s hard to comprehend something you can’t see, let alone test it. As knowledge work,...

The 2018 Product Portfolio Management Survey Shines A Light on Top Performers [Video]

I am excited to share that the results from 6th Product Portfolio Management global survey are in! Conducted by Tech-Clarity® and sponsored by Planview, we asked people involved in the product development process to share their experiences in managing their product portfolios and developing and bringing new products to market.  Not only did almost 500...

Keeping Team Morale High During Difficult Times

It is a normal part of professional life that an organization or specific team might go through difficult times. This could be major restructuring which results in layoffs, a breakdown in relations that leads to a lot of team members leaving or one of those periods where, for whatever reason, many clients leave within a...

Building a Better Product Roadmap with Planview and the Pragmatic Marketing Framework

As we continue our blog series on using the Pragmatic Marketing Framework to improve product development, we turn our sights now to product roadmaps. Before we get started, be sure to catch up on anything you missed in part 1: Supporting Product Strategy to Execution Leveraging the Pragmatic Marketing Framework, and part 2: Supporting Sales...

Five Tips for Working Smarter, Not Harder

Working smarter (not harder) could mean the difference between a so-so project and a successful one–this article will explore five tips for working smarter, not necessarily harder. The phrase, “work smarter, not harder” seems like an obvious piece of work advice. Who wouldn’t want to use their brains to deliver increased success along with more free...

Spotlight on Women in Lean: Julia Wester

In March, SolutionsIQ included us in their article, “Getting to Equal in an Agile Workplace,” as one of the tools that can help teams achieve transparency while tracking the progress of their work. Throughout the article, author Hanna Gnann offered a fresh take on how companies can strive to achieve equality for women in the workplace using...

Tasktop at DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2018: Time To Think End-To-End

“DevOps Enterprise Summit is the epicentre of learning for leaders and technologists wanting to see their digital transformations through to success. No other event I know goes as far in combining technology foundations with business results.” – Dr. Mik Kersten, CEO and co-founder, Tasktop At DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2018 (June 25-26, Intercontinental – The...