Be a Lamp, Lifeboat or Ladder: How Ordinary Project Managers Become Remarkable People Leaders

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...

The 12 Days of Project Success

You may have come across “The 12 Days of Project Misery,” which is the lament of project managers who are forced to use dysfunctional project management software. For them, the season isn’t festive — it’s frustrating. But it doesn’t have to be! Their enterprise can put Planview AdaptiveWork’s award-winning project management software under the tree,...

Scrap Those Resource Capacity Planning Templates and Spreadsheets

When it comes to planning projects, organizations often use spreadsheets and resource capacity planning templates to help them understand how demand compares with available resources. It can be a long, arduous set up. Eventually, you end up with the tabs of information and pivot tables to help you draw conclusions and make decisions. Spreadsheets might...

10 predictions and trends for enterprise software development and delivery in 2018

Predicting the future of enterprise software development and delivery can often feel like hammering Jell-O to a wall. The industry is a perpetually evolving beast, awash with nuance, relativity and disruption. Just when you think you’ve got your head around it all, new technology and ideas can gatecrash the party overnight. That said, we’ve dusted...

5 Real-World Successful Project Management Examples

Is your organization trying to optimize work portfolios, balance capacity against demand, and link plans and resources to project execution? It’s not always easy to drive change with speed and confidence. Smart companies are always looking for successful project management examples to learn how other companies are achieving their project management goals. At Planview, we...

What Are Project Resources?

Ever heard of the game, “Would You Rather?” Let’s play a quick round to help answer the question “What are Project Resources?” You’re responsible for transporting a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill (the boulder does not have to remain in one piece). So, would you rather: Be responsible for carrying the...

What Project Managers Should Know About the Sales Pipeline

As industry grew in the United States, sales became an integral element of business success. It wasn’t long before a science was developed to help define the foundation of the process. This is formally known as sales process engineering and is intended to design better ways of selling a product or service. The more refined...

Why the UK is Top 3 For International Business

The UK continues to prove all the post-Brexit doom-mongers wrong by going from strength to strength in terms of production and factory orders. The confidence in this booming economy is shared by international business people from around the world, a third of whom recently named the UK as one of the top three countries for...

What Every CIO Wants to Know About Enterprise Architecture – But Is Too Afraid to Ask

The relationship between enterprise architecture and the CIO has always been difficult. Depending on the background of the CIO, they typically either throw up their hands in horror or relegate the enterprise architecture team to focusing on IT architecture. Usually it is not because they don’t understand the value of enterprise architecture, but because they...

A Gift for the Enterprise Architect in All of Us

Think about your holiday shopping list. You know, that list of all the people you want to buy gifts for. I’ll bet it contains the name of each person, along with the names of all their perfect gifts. If you’re really savvy, you may even have stores listed, coupons, dates for sales or shipping discounts,...