Your path to business agility
Not surprisingly, the success of the project portfolio is truly in the eye of the beholder – the stakeholder (execs, customers, the board, etc.). Whether those stakeholders view your projects as successful will likely be based upon the PMOs ability to deliver on its commitments as well as what you can measure. How can you...
Are you a sales manager that has no idea where a customer feature request is? Are you fed up with chaser phone calls and firing off countless emails to get a status update? Are you afraid of letting your customer down? Then you’ve come to the right place. The problem Once you’ve made a sale,...
As you take another look at your priorities for this brave, new year, Planview CEO Greg Gilmore encourages you to step out of the confines of the annual strategic plan and step into continuous planning to truly deliver on your highest-priority commitments. In his latest CIO.com blog, Greg reminds us all that “success isn’t a...
Defining goals is critical to running successful ideation challenges. This may seem like an obvious statement, but it’s not uncommon to skip or rush through this crucial step when creating challenges. I’ve been working with several ideation program managers recently to launch their first crowdsourcing challenge and noticed that many try to bypass the step...
Planview AgilePlace is a powerful Lean-Kanban tool that enables teams to visualize and manage their work processes. It is popular with IT Operations teams because it allows more flexibility than a traditional software development tool. Meanwhile, many development teams use JIRA, an Agile tool, for issue and project tracking. Integrating Planview AgilePlace with JIRA can...
How do you feel about New Year’s resolutions? Do you have some of your own, and do you stick to them? Many chose to forgo the tradition of making resolutions for one of two reasons: 1) they’re simply too easy to break, or 2) life is already pretty great. Those who feel the latter adopt...
We’ve all attended professional conferences over the years. And while the topics and venues may change, the format remains the same: An awesome keynote that sets the tone A promise of networking, but no real structure to support attendee interaction Death by PowerPoint Scrambling to take as many notes as possible to share back at...
Are your customers’ software issues taking too long to be fixed? Are you looking to improve your mean time to resolution (MTTR) and improve collaboration between your support team, developers and QA engineers/testers? You’ve come to the right place. Problem Your customer has a critical issue with their software. Every minute of application downtime is...
At key moments in life, we need a trusted friend to boldly and with the best of intentions take us aside, and give us an unpleasant — or sometimes just ugly — dose of truth. And if you’re an executive in an enterprise that uses spreadsheets as a project management “tool,” then allow us to...
There are those who think that the number one job of a project manager is — if you’ll forgive the tautology — to manage projects. However, there’s an even deeper and more important role that project managers should perform, regardless of whether they’re developing software, launching a marketing campaign, building a facility or carrying out...
