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Of all of the things I’ve done while at Tasktop, working on webinars has to be my favorite. Every month, I get the chance to work with intelligent people with unique perspectives on software development and delivery to educate and inspire viewers to improve the way their organizations deliver value to customers. We like to...
Conferences provide an opportunity to network with your peers, learn about best-practices, and realize that we all face common challenges when making tough portfolio decisions. Once upon a time, portfolio and resource planning conferences were a seasonal affair, with options available throughout the fall. Now there are events year-round; even if they are all on...
Product managers have an increasingly difficult job. They not only need to listen and understand customers, operations, markets, sales, and engineering, but they then must make difficult decisions that require communicating and guiding the organization to embrace trade-offs made across conflicting priorities. Product managers carry this responsibility from idea to delivery, bringing cross-functional teams together...
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...
Meeting the demands of ever-changing priorities within a government can lead to inconsistent processes, departments with limited visibility into what is being worked on, and no ability to monitor investments. New Zealand Government, like many other government agencies, was tasked with overcoming these obstacles to develop and manage project and investment portfolios to grow the...
Pfizer, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies on the planet, has been developing and executing an innovation and experimentation program for over five years. Needless to say they’ve experienced all the growing pains and successes that come with creating an enduring program. We caught up with Pfizer’s Senior Manager of Worldwide Innovation, John Klick, to...
Your company recently introduced a new product to the market, and it has been a huge success. But do you know why? Can you trace the product delivered back to the original idea? Can you improve the innovation strategy? You need to learn to measure innovation capability. According to Tech Clarity, to best monitor and...
The eternal question for organizations worldwide – how do you measure the productivity of your software development team? There have been many attempts to answer this question, yet a solid measure continues to elude the industry. For instance, counting output such as the number of lines of code produced is insufficient as there’s little point...
We recently published an article that introduced the shift from idea management to full lifecycle idea management. The main premise of the article was to shed a light on an important aspect of ideation and innovation programs: impact. In other words, it’s not enough to just come up with great ideas – that’s not the...
With over 120,000 employees and billions of dollars in revenue, Johnson & Johnson is one of the top consumer packaged goods companies on the planet. How, though, does a company of this size approach innovation? Especially in an industry that’s seeing new ecommerce startups popup that challenge traditional business models, and Amazon leveraging its distribution...
