Stay Balanced with the Project Roadmap

A circus is a team effort. Let’s face it, it’d be pretty boring with just one person. But the performance is only possible after hours of rehearsal and making sure everyone is on the same page. Each moment must be planned to ensure safety, and every performer must share the same goal to put on...

Make Better Decisions with these Collaborative Work Management Reporting Features

Collaborative work management software isn’t just about communicating more effectively with your team. It’s also about having access to information that will help you make the best, most informed decisions about projects and team members while adjusting to incoming demand.  If you are looking for a collaborative work management solution, make sure it has these...

How Visibility Equals Product Acceleration

The acquisition of Whole Foods by Amazon begs the question of whether or not the Amazon Go model will appear at Whole Foods Markets. In addition to watching a traditional sales model potentially evolve, or even become obsolete, we can see that marketplace differentiation is often becoming more dependent on technology in general and on...

What is Project Risk Intelligence?

Is there value in taking risks? Project managers often try to avoid risks that could be detrimental to project success, but are there cases in which the rewards potentially outweigh the risks? This is the crux of risk intelligence and here’s what you should know about utilizing this strategy for your projects. How It Varies...

ELK Stack for Improved Support

The ELK stack, composed of Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana, is world-class dashboarding for real-time monitoring of server environments, enabling sophisticated analysis and troubleshooting. Could we also leverage this great tooling to our advantage in situations where access to the server environment is an impossibility? Recently while investigating a customer support case, I looked into whether...

Public Relations Project Management

All public relations (PR) people, whether they work at an agency or on-staff with a company, must balance internal projects and expectations with external deadlines and requests, aka public relations project management. And everyone knows that in the digital age we live in, trying to manage your work day through email is a fool’s game....

Integration Across the HPE and Micro Focus Product Portfolio

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has just recently merged with Micro Focus to create the seventh largest pure-play software company under the Micro Focus brand. DevOps is a top solution area at Micro Focus, which is now supported by a much larger product portfolio. In addition to HPE’s products, the DevOps portfolio includes products from the...

Hurricane Harvey Showed Us Hearts Are Big in Texas, Too

Just over two weeks ago, Hurricane Harvey hit Texas hard. Over the weekend, our hearts went out to people affected by Hurricane Irma as that storm began battering the Caribbean before moving to Florida. We have witnessed an incredible outpouring of support that we hope continues. The statement “everything’s bigger in Texas” has never been...

ProjectPlace Workspace Template Library Is Here

Whether you’re an event planner, a consultant, or even a member of a sales team, you’ve probably found yourself managing projects. Managing projects can be difficult, especially if you’re unsure of where to begin. More frequently than you’d probably like to admit, you need some assistance getting a project off the ground, especially if the...