Is Your Project Management Software Millennial-Friendly?

It has been three years since millennials — i.e. people born between the early 1980s and late 1990s — officially surpassed Generation X to comprise the biggest share of the U.S. labor market. And by 2019, millennials are expected to overtake the Boomers as the largest living adult generation. In light of this seismic demographic...

Planview Recognized as a Leader in 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Project Portfolio Management [Infographic]

We are excited to share Gartner has named Planview® a Leader in the May 2018 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Project Portfolio Management, Worldwide” for its ability to execute and completeness of vision. As part of Planview’s evaluation, Gartner assessed the company’s project portfolio management (PPM)-related products. Read the official news release: Planview recognized as a Leader in...

Learning on the job – the never-ending education as a software developer

I have been fortunate enough to work on a variety of teams and companies in the software industry, each with different methodologies and varying efficiency. Throughout my career as a software developer, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the problem-solving aspects of working in a development team, and would like to share a couple of the challenges that...

Work and Resource Management: Benefits to Bypass the Competition

Thus far in this blog series based on the Ventana Research whitepaper, “Five Ways to Increase Efficiency and Innovate Faster,” we have defined work and resource management (WRM), reviewed how your organization can overcome possible hurdles, identified how to assess your current capabilities, and looked into some specific advantages of WRM applications. If you missed...

Enterprises: Here’s How to End Excessive Status Meetings

It is no secret that most employees don’t just dislike excessive status meetings: they dread them. A Clarizen-Harris poll of more than 2,000 employees revealed that: 60 percent spend more time preparing for status meetings, than they do attending the actual meetings. 46 percent would rather do any other unpleasant activity vs. endure yet another...

Five Writing Commandments for Project Managers

When eager new project managers emerge onto the scene — or when experienced professionals in other disciplines have the mantle of project management thrust upon them — they generally expect to do a fair amount of writing. A fair amount, yes. But enough to comprise few novels a year? No. Yet that’s the norm on...

Five Skills that Project Managers Must Master in the New World of Work

Although the science of project management has changed significantly over the last several decades, project managers still need a solid grasp of the fundamentals, such as planning, scheduling, budgeting, scope management, resource management, risk management and time management. These skills have been essential since long before Gannt Charts and Critical Paths were born. As the...

Four Steps to Breathe Life Back into a Dying Project

While it is obviously a last resort, there are times when it’s necessary to gracefully kill a project vs. allow it to continue its terrifying one way journey towards oblivion. However, well before that becomes a possibility, project managers need to pull out the jaws of life, grab a defibrillator, and administer some CPR —...

Continuous Architecture: Enable Continuous Delivery and Promote Interoperability

In this blog series, I discuss the six principles that guide an agile mindset, as discussed in a recent webcast influenced from a book “Continuous Architecture: Sustainable Architecture in an Agile and Cloud-Centric World.” For details on principles 1-2 read the blog: Continuous Architecture: Architect Products Not Solutions and Focus on Quality Attributes. For details...