3 Takeaways from Planview IdeaPlace’s Innovation Forum

Planview IdeaPlace recently hosted an Innovation Forum with global consumer goods manufacturer Li & Fung in Hong Kong. An exclusive group of innovation leaders convened for an evening of sharing best practices and in-depth discussions about innovation programs. With presentations from Steve Glaveski, Co-founder and CEO at Collective Campus; Alvin Chia, ‎Innovation Program Lead at...

5 DevOps Books to Read with Your Team

Officially coined in 2009, the term “DevOps” has become a business buzzword in recent years. But what is it exactly? DevOps describes a cultural movement in IT focused on collaboration and innovation through systems thinking. The term is often incorrectly used to describe a development methodology or a new type of team. Luckily, there are...

Portfolio Management Reporting Doesn’t Have to be Painful

The PMO’s job driving project selection and making smart resource allocations just got a little easier. We recently updated the eBook, The Top 7 Reports for IT PMOs, that provides a look at key reports you need to inform stakeholders consistently, confidently, and often. We’re excited about the new, interactive Gated Project Dashboard in Planview...

451 Research Report: ProjectPlace Delivers Collaborative Edge

If you’re a card-carrying, certified project manager, you have at your disposal a well-known set of practices, tools and methodologies that can be summoned to assist with the planning and management of structured work and projects.  And if all work was structured and all of us were classically trained in the ways of project management,...

IT Project Success Rates Are On The Rise: Project Champion or Underperformer?

After years of stagnate IT project success rates, it looks like the tide is turning, according to the 2017 Pulse of the Profession report from the Project Management Institute (PMI) – a promising message for PMO leaders and C-level stakeholders alike. The ninth global project management survey features insights from 3,234 project management professionals, 200...

Why communication and collaboration are integrated – not interchangeable

It’s common for the words communication and collaboration to be used together. However, while they pair nicely, they aren’t interchangeable, and a belief to the contrary is responsible for a large portion of project failure and customer unhappiness. Customer Communication IQ Let’s start with communication. Most enterprises do a good job when it comes to building...

Finding flow with the little red bus

If you visit the Planview AdaptiveWork campus in San Mateo, California and drop-in on any of my team meetings, you’ll see talented and hard working people, an employee-friendly work environment…and oh yes: a little red bus.No, we aren’t having show-and-tell. And while we do take breaks every now and then, the purpose is to stretch...

U.S. Department of Energy Receives Award for Enterprise Architecture Innovation

It’s not easy turning a cyber breach into a positive experience that helps your organization make better risk-based cyber decisions. As Innovation Architect for the U.S. Department of Energy, Rick Lauderdale is responsible for doing just that by defining EA methodologies and the architecture review process. So, it came as no surprise to us when...

Software-Defined Technologies: Transforming the Value Stream

Software-defined is a concept that refers to the ability to control some or all of the functions of a system using software. The concept is sometimes incorrectly characterized as a buzzword or marketing jargon, when in fact it has a clear meaning that needs to be understood by organizations looking to keep pace with change....

Announcing Planview IdeaPlace’s Biggest Product Release Yet and New EVP of Sales

Following on the heels of announcing the acquisition of Kindling and record growth in 2016 earlier this year, today Planview IdeaPlace announces its biggest product release to date plus a new addition to the team. We’re serious when we say this release is big. How big? Try this on for size. Planview IdeaPlace releases game-changing...