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We live in a fast-paced, technological world, characterized by seemingly endless changes to work and resource dynamics. Teams are spread out across departments and locations, with individuals often approaching work in very different ways. This means executives are faced with delivering on corporate strategy while remaining flexible and promoting an adaptive organization. However, with all...
The mad rush to deliver software faster is a major threat for an organization’s quality control and brand integrity. QA and test teams are under pressure like never before to ensure that software products are always functional, reliable and delivering value to end users. If it goes wrong, you can bet your bottom dollar that...
When it comes to choosing new project management software, enterprises typically rely on scorecards, content (e.g. reports, white papers, articles, blog posts, videos, etc.), case studies, peer reviews, comparison matrices, demos, data sheets, and other tools to evaluate potential solutions. Naturally, all of these are key pieces of the decision-making puzzle. However, there is a...
When you reduce project management down to its nuts and bolts, project managers all have the same essential goal: Getting things done with the resources they have available. Regardless of whether you’re an accidental project manager tasked with overseeing various operations or a professional project manager in charge of multiple teams across the globe, it’s...
If you’ve worked with or around software developers in the past decade, you’ve likely heard of the Agile methodology. Agile was originally designed to help developers create higher quality software, faster and more reliably. But Agile isn’t just for software anymore: As software teams experienced significant improvements in speed, quality, and reliability from using the...
Here is a common scenario: You spend months participating in annual planning. If you are part of the process that collects the list of projects, you are spending ridiculous hours collecting and consolidating. Then, you pass the list of projects to those who “align” those projects to strategy? The problem is that this alignment activity...
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...
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...
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...
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...
