Your path to business agility
In my earlier post, Testing to Improve Flow Means Happier Teams, I talked about how a lightweight test may shine a light on one or more experiments to start with. Let’s explore how one can improve team flow by creating an environment where experimentation can take place and where real change is possible. A quote...
This month marks Planview Hub’s 5th birthday! On this milestone day we’re celebrating you — our customers — and all your amazing achievements! Thanks to your integrations, you’re improving the daily work of your teams every single day! CGI, Panasonic Automotive, TELUS Health, HERE Technologies, NIO, and Frequentis are just a few of our customers...
When KPMG asked CEOs how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted their digital transformation plans, 74 percent said it accelerated the digitization of operations and the creation of a next-generation operating model by months, if not years. Yet for some organizations, the initial hustle to transform can get bogged down by obstacles throughout the company. What are...
January 17, 2007: Dr. Mik Kersten, Dr. Gail Murphy and Robert Elves founded Tasktop. Here is the announcement about the founding of the company a couple months after the incorporation https://blog.tasktop.com/tasktop-technologies-launched/. Just to put it in context, here are some other highlights from 2007: Apple iPhone was announced and launched Beyonce’s “Irreplaceable” was the best-performing...
At Planview, we have two great products that meet the varying needs of Professional Services organizations—whether it be products for Professional Services companies, professional services groups embedded in product companies, or those providing Managed Services. Our range of capabilities covers the entire services lifecycle ranging from Opportunity to Delivery to Billing and Revenue Recognition. We intend to build on...
Value stream management is a growing practice in software delivery organizations of large scale enterprises and government agencies. Flow Metrics are a major pillar of how we measure improvement in value streams. As organizations begin to adopt Flow Metrics, our natural tendencies emerge to massage the newfound visibility to make the metrics “look good”. This...
Listening to conferences, webinars and podcasts, it’s easy to find organizations that have made significant wins on the project to product journey. It’s also easy to gloss over the significant challenges that were overcome along the journey when you’ve only got 45 minutes to tell a story that took two+ years to unfold. The journey...
Note: We continue to follow and respond quickly to this complex and evolving issue. Did Your Response Delight or Disappoint Customers? The initial CVE for the Log4j vulnerability that set the internet on fire on Friday was happily already fixed in Tasktop’s SaaS products by early afternoon. Customers running our solutions on-prem promptly received a...
Often organizations can be overwhelmed when thinking about continuous improvement primarily because it’s just that … continuous. It’s easy to lose focus and momentum while on this journey because the day to day effort doesn’t bring about incredible change. This is even more true the longer the journey goes. A key to keeping momentum is...
Effectively selling Agile to executives is more than just getting the go-ahead for an Agile transformation. Because Agile includes a culture shift and a mindset change, as well as funding, you need executives to truly buy in to the approach. If you’ve gotten approval from leadership to embark on an Agile transformation, you may be gaining momentum from Agile teams embracing new ways of...
