Your path to business agility
Visualizing what you do now is largely regarded as one of the initial steps in a Kanban or Lean journey. Even starting with simple To Do, Doing, and Done lanes on a Planview AgilePlace board works wonders. People know what work is “happening” and the current status. They understand the flow of work and sequence of actions...
Time flies, especially when it comes to project management. It is often a struggle for PMs to keep up with the work of each individual team member, resulting in their inability to effectively monitor productivity and adhere to budgets and deadlines. Before they know it, projects become far too expensive and it’s revealed that time...
With more than 100 million active monthly users, including prominent figures in every imaginable industry, LinkedIn is a social network that no organization can afford to ignore. The site has become a central element of global business, allowing companies to find new employees, promote new products and identify potential customers and business partners. Marketing on...
Anywhere you look in today’s business environment, you’ll see signs that project management is growing in depth and importance. Organizations are hiring project managers at an unprecedented rate, creating specialized project management departments and enhancing their capabilities with advanced cloud-based project management solutions. Thousands of professionals are earning project management credentials each year, hoping to...
Take a walk through any office, at any time of day, and you’re sure to see at least a few people using social media at their desks. Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ or other sites, the vast majority of workers spend at least some time on social networking each day. At first glance, managers...
89% of Planview IdeaPlace customers are leveraging ideation to create a culture of innovation. That’s a stat we uncovered in our 2017 Business Innovation Report. Establishing a culture of innovation is a hot topic. It’s on the shortlist of strategic initiatives executives around the world are implementing to transform their organizations. However, it takes investment...
In an effort to advocate for the equal pay of women, a new set of regulations for the Equality Act of 2010 was passed this April. Commonly referred to as the “gender pay gap law”, the regulations make it mandatory for thousands of companies across the United Kingdom to record, examine and report their gender...
Streamlining and scaling operations is an important necessity for companies to operate smoothly. It becomes challenging to focus on the bigger goals of an organization when support, response times, and functionality is still difficult to accomplish. This blog is a summary of the recent case study of Carestream and their challenges; which ultimately led to...
Enterprise project managers often build their teams from a combination of internal employees and outside contractors. In most cases, these outside contractors are employees of a business partner, vendor or other organization. In some cases, however, you may discover that you can’t find people with the right skill sets inside your organization or within any...
No project can succeed without the right people working on it. We already know that your next project will have the right person—you—managing it, and with any luck you’ll be able to build your team with people you’ve worked with before and can trust to get the job done. But what happens if you need...
