7 Things that Turn Collaboration into Chaos

We’ve all experienced it many times—and we dread experiencing it again. No, I’m not referring to traffic jams or flight delays. Yes, those are tedious, but we’re talking about something even more deflating: when workplace collaboration descends into chaos. Here are the top 7 reasons why: 1. The Loop is Too Small This happens when all...

Let’s Get Visual: Visualize Your Integration Landscape with Tasktop Integration Hub

On January 31st, Tasktop reimagined integration with the launch of Tasktop Integration Hub. Tasktop’s Model-Based Integration platform allows organizations to define their Value Stream Integration layer within the Tasktop interface automating information flow across teams, processes, and tools. Today, Tasktop introduces an upgraded release of the Tasktop Integration Hub featuring Landscape View. Landscape view provides...

Planview IdeaPlace Launches Technology Partner Program to Bring More Advanced Capabilities to Customers

Following on the heels of our biggest product release yet, which included new game-changing capabilities, Planview IdeaPlace has announced the launch of its Technology Partner Program. Here’s what you need to know. What is the Technology Partner Program? Spigit’s Technology Partner Program opens a new world of possibilities for ideation and collaboration. It enables qualifying...

5 Reasons Why Some Good Enterprises Still Use Bad Project Management Software

Why do some enterprises with an enviable range of strengths and successes, nevertheless suffer from, and subject their workforce to, bad project management software? Is it psychological? Emotional? Is Dr. Phil needed to unravel this scenario? Is an intervention required? It’s none of the above, which is a relief for CEOs and other executives out...

Three Ways to Mature Your New Product Development Process

For many organizations, making data-driven decisions on picking winning products and improving time to market is not easy. When it comes to prioritizing the right new product development (NPD) projects, organizations reach a point where they can no longer turn to spreadsheets and shared file systems to manage the idea-to-launch process. Product development leaders tend...

Advancing Product Innovation: Why Right Size is Better than Supersize

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?...

Lean Tool Roundup: Kanban is King

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....

Arm Yourself Against Mediocrity by Becoming Business Agile – Infographic

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...

Vanderbilt University Medical Center Provides Enterprise-Wide Project Management Services

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...

5 Kanban Strategies to Help IT Operations Teams Meet and Exceed Deadlines

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...