Four Common Workflow Mistakes & How to Avoid Them

The concept behind process improvement is creating fluidity in your daily routine. This happens by establishing a consistent and predictable flow of work that is easily directed. A sequence of processes through which a task passes from planning to completion is known as a “workflow” and managing the progression can be demanding. Once you have...

Pfizer Launches New Startup: A Growth Trend in Enterprises

Pfizer, the largest pharmaceuticals company in the world and a Planview IdeaPlace customer, has launched a startup geared towards developing new treatments for underserved patient communities. The six-person startup named SpringWorks Therapeutics will launch with an initial Series A investment of over $100 million. Investors include parent company Pfizer and Bain Capital Life Sciences. What’s interesting...

This Year’s Austin Heart & Stroke Walk is a Walk Down Memory Lane

“Life is why we walk.” Each year, the Austin community comes together to participate in American Heart Association’s Heart & Stroke Walk—a three-mile walk (or 5K run) through Butler Park and along the Colorado River. Family and friends from all different walks of life help contribute to the event, whether they or a loved one...

Technology Roadmapping – The Key To Becoming A Platform Leader

‘Technology Roadmapping’ is one of the widely used techniques in the software and hardware industry to help an organization to achieve its goals. A flexible technique that supports strategic and long-term planning, the approach ‘provides a structured (and often graphical) means for exploring and communicating the relationships between evolving and developing markets, products and technologies...

Project Management in Demand Generation Marketing

As a demand-generation marketer, it is my job to get customers excited about our company’s products and services. The programs I manage through e-mail campaigns and social media create touch points with our customers. Project management in demand generation marketing has many challenges, including organizing and planning. If your job includes long- and short-term projects,...

Stop the Wishful Thinking: Bring Your Company’s Strategic Plan to Life

Does it seem that your company strategic plan is a lot like any well-intentioned lifestyle change? It’s great on paper, but the minute real life interferes, the fitness routine and clean eating goes out the window. Your enterprise wants to drive a vision of change and transformation—that’s what the strategic plan is all about. The...

Avoid the Mirage with Project Roadmap Team Planning

“Come one, come all to the greatest show on earth!” Sound familiar? This tried-and-true line has gotten people to buy-in to the fantasy of circuses for ages. Just those ten words deliver an anticipation and intrigue that always keeps them coming back for more. What’s better than excitement from an audience to boost the morale...

Planview and SnapLogic: Fast Results and Faster Decisions

Since 2016, Planview and SnapLogic have been partners for a really good reason – to make obtaining insights from Planview’s suite of products even faster. SnapLogic, a company based out of Silicon Valley, CA, is an Integration Platform-as-a-Service provider and provides a codeless approach to integration between applications, data, and “things.” Being a SnapLogic customer...

The Growing Role of Enterprise Architects

A recent analysis by Planview found that today’s enterprise architects (EA) must not only be technical but also be strategic. The team looked at a random set of 100 job postings at different companies and identified the most common hiring characteristics employers are looking for in candidates. According to Jeff Ellerbee, solutions marketing manager at...

8 Kanban Board Examples for Engineering & Manufacturing Organizations

Many engineering and manufacturing companies choose Planview AgilePlace to help them to gain visibility into and manage their work. We are increasingly impressed with both the diversity and utility these organizations are getting from their Planview AgilePlace boards. With this post, we’d like to share some of the more interesting examples, in the hope that...