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...

Improving Cross-Department Communication Throughout the Business [Interview]

How well are you communicating within your team and with other areas of the organization about project work? Often, when cross department communication suffers, project deadlines are missed or fail. So, you can imagine the challenges are compounded when those people you need to communicate with on projects are also geographically dispersed. Collaborative work management...

Tasktop Connect 2017 captures the imagination of the software development community

“I thought Tasktop Connect had a great mix of honest User Stories and helpful Tasktop information. The event had the feel of a well-seasoned conference, I was stunned to find out it was the first one!” – Tom Horn, Collaboration Lead for Development Solutions, US Bank The inaugural Tasktop Connect kicked off with a bang last...

Marketing Project Management: From Content Development to Delivery

Creativity is key. We’ve all heard that one before, particularly those of us in marketing. For us marketers, developing content can be an arduous process when it involves numerous people, often spread out across different departments. Without a proper collaboration tool, marketing project management can quickly become overwhelming. As a content manager and blog editor,...

What You Need to Know About Project Audits

If you are like most project managers, project audits are likely to be something that you dread. What’s not stressful about scrutinizing large amounts of resources, time and labor in order to locate weaknesses? Additionally, the very word “audit” bears a negative cultural connotation. However, far from being the proverbial doomsday scenario, project auditing can...