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The UK is in dire need of project management skills as an increase in demand and a decrease in the number of trained employees is occurring simultaneously. Currently, large UK public sector projects run the risk of delays and rising costs and in some cases, lost jobs. So how is this happening and what can...
What does project resource management look like in your organization? Are you managing multiple teams across departments or geographic locations? Perhaps you’re outsourcing talent or coordinating dates and budgets? Maybe you’re managing equipment, space availability, or partners in a supply chain. The scenarios are endless. Depending on who you ask in your organization and their...
Happy New Year to you! The time is ripe for big dreams, high hopes, and well-intentioned resolutions for what we’re going to set out and achieve in the coming year. One popular New Year’s Resolution is getting fit – so here at Planview IdeaPlace, we wanted to share with you a series about how to...
Regardless of where or how you work with your teams, your collective goal is to work together to get work done. As you may know, project delivery is not always easy. The cliché of doing more with less is all too real, often creating a complexity for teams and managers alike. The truth of the...
Project failure can happen to anyone, at any time. Sometimes you made a mistake, sometimes someone else dropped the ball and other times it can seem as if some huge karmic vortex had conspired to put every possible obstacle to success in your path. However it happened, the important thing is to pick yourself up,...
Call it a severe case of digital disruption. Today’s project and program management offices (PMOs) are not only being tasked to work at hyper speed, they are also being asked to balance somewhat contradictory objectives. Traditionally, the PMO has focused on bringing structure, methodology, process, and governance to the position. Today, they must shift gears...
If you were given a choice between watching Justin Timberlake in this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, or setting up an integration between two of your software development tools, which would you choose? You might be thinking to yourself, “I could not imagine the pain of setting up an integration between Jira and Jama,” or...
Many of the greatest challenges surrounding the discipline of Enterprise Architecture stem from the idea that it takes too long, costs too much, and does not seem to add value. In short, EA is seen as something that adds cost and complexity to our organisations rather than making life easier or enabling new and innovative...
Tasktop Integration Hub 18.1 is available today with several exciting new features for flowing folder structures, configuring state transitions, and deploying Docker images. We’ve also added support for Sparx Systems EA, an enterprise modeling tool, via Sparx Systems Pro Cloud Server. Create Folder Structures on the Fly Many organizations rely heavily on folder structures...
MIT’s Sloan Management Review recently published a story that focuses on the research Planview IdeaPlace conducted with Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management around quantifying a culture of innovation. In other words, we set out to move beyond the why behind creating a culture of innovation and look at the how. In doing so, we...
