Your path to business agility
Picture this: 10,000 employees and 20 enterprise-wide applications with an average of ten new hires and five exiting employees a week. Now imagine the amount of time someone spends creating, editing, deleting and permissioning all those users and roles across the varying applications they use — ever changing with requests growing by the day. If...
When it comes to annual planning, the PMO and finance department can have complimentary but different needs. While finance is focused on budgets and headcounts, the PMO prioritizes project governance and successful delivery. This often leaves finance in the driver’s seat when it comes to defining new projects, and the PMO is left to follow...
“When digital transformation is done right, it’s like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. When done wrong, all you have is a really fast caterpillar.” – George Westerman, Principal Research Scientist with the MIT Sloan Initiative on the Digital Economy Has there been a more exciting yet challenging time to be a CIO? Bridging the...
Spigit’s full lifecycle idea management software takes a monumental step forward today capping off another year of record customer growth. We’re thrilled to announce the latest product release that boasts enhancements and industry-first capabilities that will enable Planview IdeaPlace clients to take their ideation programs to the next level. Here’s a closer look. Full lifecycle...
Having an effective team is the cornerstone of success for any project manager. Nobody can achieve everything on their own and so building a team that can exceed expectations, or at least keep to them, is vital for any project. This is a lot easier said than done however and knowing how to build a...
Capacity planning is essential when it comes to how to manage resources effectively and efficiently. Businesses who embrace capacity planning find they are more nimble and capable of making sure the right resources are working on the right projects at the right time. Stop struggling with high demand and overcommitted resources. By becoming a more...
When it comes to an enterprise architecture framework, there are a wide range available to use. Horizontal ones such as TOGAF or Zachman, and vertically flavoured ones such as eTOM for the telecoms industry and BIAN for the banking industry. In all cases, they are useful and can provide value, but in every case, they...
More features out the door, faster time to market, fewer defects, and shorter time to value: it’s widely accepted that you have to deliver better software products faster to gain that all important competitive edge. That’s why you’ve invested in DevOps, Agile, best-of-breed tools and specialist people, often to the tune of millions of dollars....
Employment in the UK is surging to record levels, with unemployment now standing at just 4.3%, the lowest it has been since the 1970s. One of the results of this is that wages in many sectors have increased hugely as competition for skilled workers has increased, exacerbated by the Brexit vote in 2016 and the...
For IT leaders, the key advantages of project portfolio management are how it allows them to optimize their project portfolios, balance capacity against demand, and link plans and resources to project execution. At Planview, we’re helping a wide-range of companies – from universities to manufacturers – achieve great success with their project portfolio management. We’ve...
