Streamlining Project Management in the Banking Industry

Like many small banks, the Exchange Bank in Santa Rose, California, found itself managing lots of projects without an official project manager in sight. They were also drowning in email, meetings, and spreadsheets—all of which meant project data was difficult to access when it came time to show compliance to bank examiners. Choosing to end...

Troux 14: Sneak Peak of PM Today Review

Organizations often struggle when it comes to effectively managing their IT assets in support of their business goals. That’s why senior management will typically turn to enterprise architecture tools such as Troux 14 for help with high-level strategic planning and road mapping. These tools also help them better understand the cross-dependencies of future requirements—not to...

Why Spreadsheets Need to Die (or At Least Retire) for Project Management

They were born of an earlier time, simpler days when anything went; it was the 80s, the Wild West era of documents. Spreadsheets were created, initially for numbers, which made sense, but they didn’t stop at just numbers. With the birth of Excel and the hegemony of Windows, these rows and columns spread all over...

RFP Project Planning Doesn’t Have to be Deadly

The request for proposal (RFP) process often requires collecting answers from multiple subject matter experts to produce a complete deliverable to the prospect—and in my experience, this project planning can get messy, fast, turning your seemingly normal day into a Freddy Kruger nightmare you can’t wake from. Tracking who owns what, making sure you deliver...

Optimizing Customer Project Management

If you have worked in a customer-facing position, you know how difficult it can be to effectively allocate the finite resources you have across a myriad of customers. Support tickets that customers submit obviously need to be handled quickly and efficiently, but overall customer project management and success is a delicate balancing act that must...

The Top UK Employers for Social Mobility

In an open system of social stratification, it’s important to have companies that are championing social mobility. The UK recently released the world’s first ever social mobility employer index and it’s doing incredible things. The index looks at which UK employers are the most open to assessing and progressing talent from a variety of backgrounds...

Leveraging GDPR to Transform Your Organization

The countdown to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline has begun in earnest. These sweeping regulations go into effect on May 25, 2018—less than one year away. Not only will these new laws impact consumers and businesses throughout Europe, but they will also impact any company doing business in Europe. At its core, GDPR...

New Tasktop Integration Hub release includes new codeBeamer connector and provides deeper ‘integration sophistication’

The new release (17.4) for Tasktop Integration Hub – out today – includes a new connector with Intland’s codeBeamer ALM, and provides our customers with enhanced control of increasingly complex integration scenarios. codeBeamer ALM Tasktop now integrates codeBeamer ALM with all other leading best-of-breed tools for planning, building and delivering software, including leading DevOps systems....

Planview IdeaPlace Launches Fall Innovation Forum Series to Create a Gathering Place for the World’s Innovation Leaders

IBM, Pepperdine University, Pfizer, MetLife and more join us to share their experiences and key learnings around innovation.   Today we’re thrilled to announce the launch of Planview IdeaPlace’s Fall Innovation Forum series! Following the huge success of Planview IdeaPlace events earlier in the year, this is the next evolution of Innovation Forums, hosted with...

What Project Managers Need to Know About the UK’s GDPR

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is an agreement reached by the European Commission, Council and Parliament that provides data security for personal and corporate information throughout the European Union. Though the regulation does not take effect until May 2018, it is a good idea for all enterprises to prepare for the imminent change so...