Leading the conversation on digital connected work
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Milestones have been a basic staple on the project management landscape for, well, forever. Indeed, just as you can spot economists at a party because they’re the ones saying “all else being equal,” and you can identify the IT specialists because they’re passionately talking about “cloud migration,” you can point out the project managers because...
The rise of DevOps has unleashed a range of technical, workforce and business benefits, including: more deployments, faster lead times, shorter recovery times, lower change failure rates, less unplanned and rework, and even happier people. Indeed, as noted by open source configuration tool maker Puppet, enterprises that boost performance through DevOps methodologies enjoy greater employee...
