Enterprise Architecture at Work: Real-World Use Cases

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...

UK Employers Are Unhappy with Millennial Work Ethic

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...

Project Plan Template Library

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...

Improve MTTR by connecting ServiceNow with Jira and Micro Focus ALM (formerly HPE ALM)

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...

Why Your IT Department Should Get Better at Product Management

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 Enterprises Can Collaborate Effectively with Startups

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)...

The 12 Days of Project Misery

Whether it’s one of your classic favorites — or even if it’s not on your top 20 list — it’s nearly impossible to experience the holiday season without hearing “The 12 Days of Christmas” many (many) times. However, sometimes life isn’t full of wonder, joy and partridges in pear trees — like when project managers...

The road to a unified automotive value stream

The phrase “software is eating the world” is ubiquitous across all industries, and the automotive sector is no different. Software is the main technology driving innovation in cars. Millions of lines of code underpin everything from our vehicle’s navigation systems and engine control to its power steering and airbag deployment. We’re basically driving mobile computers....

An Open Letter to our Customers and Partners from Tim Mulron & Jon Terry

Today, we are excited to announce that Planview AgilePlace has been acquired by Planview, and we are joining the Planview portfolio of work and resource management (WRM) solutions. By combining our two like-minded cultures, and by building on both of our companies’ strong commitment to serving our customers, we see an incredible opportunity to enable organizations...

Planview and Planview AgilePlace Come Together, Extending WRM into Lean-Agile

It’s an exciting day for Planview and LeanKit as today we announced that we are coming together to launch the next phase of our work and resource management (WRM) vision. As I have been briefing industry analysts and customers on this news, I am struck by several overwhelmingly consistent reactions that are worth sharing. The first...