Your path to business agility
Recent reports from two major research firms Gartner and Forrester reinforce our own anecdotal evidence about the challenges facing today’s enterprise architecture teams and the approaches enterprise architects can take to address those challenges. The Forrester paper “Track your Progress Toward EA Value” focuses on helping enterprise architecture teams measure their progress toward becoming business...
You’ve probably heard: Agile isn’t just for software development anymore. More and more organizations are embracing Agile practices enterprise-wide as a way to increase responsiveness and deliver value faster. Executives are looking to Agile — specifically, enterprise Agile planning — to fuel strategic, sustainable growth. As Agile becomes more mainstream, there’s an emerging need for...
Unless you are a developer who enjoys reinventing the wheel (and spending countless hours or weeks developing functionality that already exists), it’s likely that you use open source dependencies in your projects. While it is great being able to easily incorporate functionality that you didn’t write into your application, such as user management, it does...
The PMO is highly valuable in any organization—or should be. Yet, many PMOs are unable to reach full potential due to challenges such as being placed too low in an organization or lacking mature tools and practices. Further, PMOs are often led by directors who focus on project pushing, yet fail to learn from past...
In previous posts, I’ve discussed how to prioritize your portfolio of R&D investments in great detail. Today, I want to focus on prioritization’s flashy sibling, optimization. Unlike simple prioritization schemes, optimization methods can handle multiple constraints to address competing portfolio objectives. So where a prioritization result may unduly favor later stage, less innovative projects, an...
When it comes to building a world-class enterprise architecture team or delivering proven project portfolio management practices, there’s no better people to learn from than your peers – the IT, PMO and EA executives, directors, and managers who not only advance the business but transform it. One of the best forums to share best practices are...
You probably know that your software delivery capabilities are vital in safeguarding your organization against digital disruption from younger, more digital-native companies. To address this threat, you’ve probably adopted widely-publicized Agile and DevOps practices to enhance the delivery speed and quality of your software. Perhaps you or your someone in your team was inspired by...
We’ve offered Pareto charts within both Viewport and the Enrich Analytics Platform for some time now, but haven’t had a chance to pull together a video overview until recently. Clients who build Pareto charts regularly in Excel love the option to build them, with one click, inside Enrich. Pareto charts are very useful for understanding the...
Social task management and work collaboration software and all its permutations is here to stay. It provides businesses a way to connect and collaborate with each other and customers. I sat down with Jeff Ellerbee, Troux Solutions Marketing Manager at Planview to discuss the topic… here are a few reasons why enterprise architects should consider...
A common misconception about ideation software is that it’s exclusively for innovation departments to use to generate breakthrough products and services. It is called “innovation” software after all, right? While that is one of its use cases, the reality is it can be used for so much more. Software solutions that power ideation programs around the world...
