Your path to business agility
We may take great pride in everything being bigger and better in our great home state of Texas, but things they are a’changin’. (Tips cowgirl hat with a wink.) Seriously. Why would you want to buy more house than you can afford? Why would you want to order more food than you can possibly eat?...
Part of the beauty of applying Lean to knowledge work is its versatility. Teams in every department — from Software Development to Organizational Development, IT Operations to Marketing Operations — practice Lean in their daily work. The workflows, organizational structures, work types, and associated challenges for each of these teams play out in diverse ways....
Hemingway once said, “Never confuse movement with action.” I would add, you shouldn’t confuse movement with progress, either. We are all bombarded with a daily sea of emails, meetings and chats. But this flurry of action is just a distraction if people are not connecting the dots and making headway on meaningful, real work. Planview AdaptiveWork can help...
I’m excited to share how one of our customers, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC), is using Planview Enterprise to support their project and program management processes. According to a recent article by Nancy Humphrey at VUMC titled, Office Provides Enterprise-wide Project Management Services, the enterprise program management office (EPMO) is tasked with supporting project management best...
What do you do when urgent work constantly interrupts planned project work? Time after time, you put down the project work so you can put out the fire. But then what happens to the prioritized work? It gets delayed. With the unpredictable nature of IT Operations work, it can feel impossible to hit deadlines for...
Last year, we launched Planview IdeaPlace for Continuous Improvement, which enabled companies to get more out of their Continuous Improvement (CI) program by tapping into the collective intelligence of their employee base. Prior to the launch, we conducted an in-depth survey of 2,600 CI practitioners to uncover intel such as the methods they use and...
It’s well-known that the wrong tools can sound the death knell for a business agile approach (yes, we’re looking at you email and spreadsheets). Instead of leveraging efficiencies in key areas to achieve strategic goals faster, the day-to-day work experience is characterized by chaos, confusion and conflict. It’s more apt to call this mutation business...
There’s a new way of work shaping the landscape, and it’s called business agility. Of course, the roots of business agile aren’t new, and its roots run deep in the IT, development and engineering worlds. However, the bold new expression we’re talking about here is a cultural shift that places the concept in a much...
What do professional race car drivers and world class ballet dancers have in common – that is, aside from having select body parts insured for millions? It’s that they have an astonishing ability to get in the flow. After all, during a rendition of Swan Lake or while navigating a hairpin turn at Daytona, it’s...
Ever feel like your competition is gaining on you? You’re not alone – fewer than half of organizations have accurate project plans and only one quarter can compare actuals to plans within three business days, according to a Ventana Research benchmark study. In their new report, Work and Resource Management: Five Ways to Increase Efficiency...
