Your path to business agility
Project kick off meetings can be an exciting time with a lot of buzz about how things are going to go down and optimism about how successful the project can be. All too often though a boring kick off drones on for far too long and any kind of enthusiasm has been drained from the...
“Nothing is permanent but change’ – Heraclitus In business, we all know if you’re standing still, you’re falling behind. We also know that asking people to change their ways is hard – especially in enterprise software delivery. Resistance from some of your best teams can be fierce, and the fallout can directly impact the quality...
Today’s PMO leaders are in the hot seat. With the changes digital business is bringing, PMOs are increasingly being challenged by executives to become more flexible, more scalable in getting work done and more involved in ensuring that projects deliver actual value. In fact, Gartner cites “Failure to Be Agile and Deliver Value” as the...
We’re thrilled to share that Ignite 2018, Planview IdeaPlace’s annual conference for the brightest minds in innovation, will be returning to the historic Bently Reserve in downtown San Francisco on May 1st and 2nd – register now to take advantage of early-bird pricing. So, what’s in it for you? Why should you attend Ignite 2018?...
What’s the number one challenge of more than 70 percent of CEOs? It’s “the rapid pace of technology change” according to the 2017 Fortune 500 CEO survey. Also, nearly 90 percent of the executives surveyed for the Accenture Technology Vision 2017 report said that their organizations “must innovate at an increasingly rapid pace just to...
A recent survey of 334 companies for the CBI/Pearson education and skills survey has found that a third of UK employers were unhappy with how their young millennial recruits applied themselves to their roles. This could lead to big problems down the line for employers in the UK as in the same study 75% believed...
In the era of digital business, leading teams through projects can be challenging without proper planning. It can often feel like you are trying to guide people through different types of working, constantly changing conditions, and limited visibility and resources—because this is really how it is. If planning deficiencies exist, they will only become more...
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...
Patrick Tickle wants your IT department to get better at product management. In this age of digital transformation, when we all want to get closer to the customer and make our products smarter and more digital, product management is imperative. It requires a product manager who is externally oriented but can still work closely with...
How can we effectively collaborate with startups? That’s a question that routinely comes up at many of the conferences Planview IdeaPlace hosts and attends as well as in our day-to-day conversations with Fortune 500 companies. Why should enterprises collaborate with startups? There are several reasons, including: Access to startups working on newer technologies (i.e. blockchain)...
