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...

Improving Sales Project Management Using Projectplace

For most people involved in sales, traditional methods of project management and communication are sometimes difficult and cluttered. Often, accountability is not there, and many times, reaching somebody, or communicating something, can be arduous. There are many moving parts in each sale and with that, comes factors that can be miscommunicated or confused. From years...

Fight Cultural Debt by Connecting Your Value Stream

“In a world where tools are a proxy for process, the disconnected worlds created by domain specific tools result in broken workflows, reduced visibility and obstructed collaboration.” The business world is often blissfully ignorant of how technology decisions can introduce ‘cultural debt’.  And when an organization takes on cultural debt unknowingly, the interest payments accumulate...

Hiring Issues Cost UK Employers $3 Billion a Year

Despite the growing uncertainty about Brexit and what it will mean for those working or looking to work in the UK, the country is experiencing an employment boom with its 4.3% unemployment rate the lowest it’s been since 2005. The result of this has been huge skills gaps being reported by businesses throughout the country,...

Demystifying Work and Resource Management

Jerry Manas, an internationally best-selling author, speaker, and consultant, knows a little bit about technology and the role it can play in helping organizations reach their full potential. In a recent whitepaper entitled “Charting Your Journey to Success in Today’s Technology Revolution,” he writes about the emerging concept of Work and Resource Management (WRM), which...

Enable Your Teams with Dynamic Sales and Project Management Software

Our goal in Solutions Marketing is to empower our internal teams with knowledge they need about Planview’s solutions and products, as well as understanding the market, competition, and external forces that affect the way we conduct business. When you think of sales and project management software commonly used in an organization, you have your usual...

5 Steps to Improve Resource Planning

You wake up in a cold sweat and the clock is glaring 2:09am. Not again! All you can think about is the fact that you know your project is never going to finish, much less on time. If only you had set realistic resource expectations on the front end of the project, you would be...