Planview AdaptiveWork in Action – Hodges-Mace

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Hodges-Mace was founded in 2004 and is a major provider of employee benefits communication, management and enrollment products and services. It delivers custom solutions to over 1,000 clients and is focused mainly on large employers based in the U.S. We talked with them recently to find out about how Planview AdaptiveWork...

The False Dilemma: Do I invest in release automation or tool integration?

CIOs may have more dollars to play with in 2018 – enterprise IT budgets are expected to rise by 3 percent – but that doesn’t make their day job any easier. They still need to extract more value from IT to help drive the business. But with all the technology and noise in the market,...

Project Management Team Building

Project success starts at the team level. Equally as important as workplace technology and ample resources, good project management team building allows managers to assemble teams that work together to overcome obstacles and work efficiently to meet deadlines. But what makes a team excel, and how do you build the perfect team to guide you...

How to Measure Innovation Capability

In part one of this series, “Why Measure Innovation by Capability,” I discussed some key insights from Tech Clarity’s latest whitepaper, 5 Ways to Measure Innovation Performance,” and why product leaders need to measure both innovation capability and desired outcomes to improve innovation performance. Now, let’s dive into the first three factors that will help...

Two-Thirds of UK Businesses Aren’t Prepared for Brexit

Despite the constant coverage, verging on national obsession, in the UK of the ongoing Brexit talks and processes, recent research has shown that 64% of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Britain have not yet prepared a plan for the UK’s exit from the European Union. With the large-scale changes in regulatory requirements and the...

The 10-Point Product Manager Manifesto to Help You Beat the Competition

Have you shifted to a product manager mindset? Thinking about your products and what they mean to your customers instead of your internal projects will actually help you beat your competition to market and to the next innovation. In his most recent CIO.com blog, Patrick Tickle, Planview chief product officer, explains why building great products...

Project Management Software: 5 Steps to Onboarding Success

Evaluating and choosing new project management software can take anywhere from a few weeks to several months. But once a decision is made, there’s another key challenge to overcome: onboarding users.   To help enterprises take the shortest path to value — and enable their users to embrace rather than reject the new project management...

Planview at SXSW Trade Show 2018

The city of Austin is alive for yet another SXSW 2018 festival – watch this video to learn more. The conference brings together tech gurus, innovators, artists, musicians, celebrities, and basically rock stars of all types to share the latest innovations and art while inspiring attendees.  We absolutely love the energy of SXSW which is...

Concept Development: An Exercise to Make Idea Investment Decisions Easier

Recently, a client shared a story about presenting some very intriguing ideas from a crowdsourcing challenge to decision makers and being met with “Yes, great ideas, but we can’t decide which of the good ones to pick or what to invest without knowing a lot more.” In that organization, like many, moving fast and choosing...

How to Solve the #1 Challenge in Project Management

It’s not trying to optimize resource utilization, manage customer expectations or handle change requests; although these are certainly thorny issues. No, the number one challenge in project management is — always has been, and always will be — getting the project plan right the first time. As such, enterprises that want to improve project performance...