3 Questions to Ask During Standup to Keep Speed a Priority

How Kanban Enables Speed A common theme in workplaces today seems to be “crazy is the new normal.” Unfortunately, most teams and organizations don’t thrive in chaos — they need help to create a rapid, sustainable pace of delivering quality products and services. Lean principles and tools, like Kanban, help organizations realize this goal through...

Lean-Agile PMO: From Process Police to Adaptive Governance

According to Jim Highsmith of The Economist, “An overwhelming majority of executives (88%) cite organizational agility as key to global success (…) Yet most companies admit they are not flexible enough to compete successfully.” Despite adopting Agile practices, many organizations struggle to achieve the predictable delivery, consistent speed, and agility required to compete in the...

Introducing Planview Enterprise 14

We get it. No one knows Planview Enterprise better than our customers who use it every day. For Planview Enterprise 14, we partnered with 140 customers across 60 organizations that participated in inner circles covering resource staffing and connecting investments with strategies and outcomes. The result? The enhancements in Planview Enterprise 14 streamline daily tasks...

Getting Started: Beginning Portfolio Management (2 of 5) – Enrich Consulting

This is the second post in our series on doing more portfolio management with less project data. You’ll find the whole series here. Data needed at each level of portfolio management. The only required data are the three items in the orange Beginner box. How much further you go depends on your people, your portfolio,...

Trading Disorder for Collaborative Work Management

Between the rise of the “accidental” project manager and the proliferation of projects being managed via email, and spreadsheets, most teams today are struggling to streamline work, optimize meetings, and stay focused on long-term planning. I recently interviewed Dawn Sarnecky, a web producer on the digital marketing team at Planview. Dawn helps triage, facilitate, and...

Software Defined: The Business Impact of DevOps Automation using Infrastructure as Code

Last week we looked at Infrastructure as Code (IaC), an emerging set of IT automation tools and practices that enable infrastructure management through a software layer. Today we will examine the impact of IaC on the business, using a “software-defined” lens to understand how this technology is a driver of change and transformation in the...