Your path to business agility
For many organizations, the open sharing of information across a variety of tools, including email, social networks, and other apps, is creating a collaborative nightmare. They need a single tool for social task management – combining the collaboration features of social networking with the organization and task features of project management. To ease this search,...
This time of year, it seems everywhere I turn all I see is red and green. And I’m not just talking about holly and garland, but project status reports. Unfortunately for me, it’s more red than green this time of year. While we rely on red and green (and yellow) to gauge the health of...
With Christmas around the corner, you must be wondering if you are on Santa’s nice list or whether you will be receiving coal under the Christmas tree this year. Your project management office (PMO) is no different. Many project managers are still using spreadsheets and other basic project management software, avoiding a project portfolio management...
In the release of Planview Enterprise 12, we introduced the concept of outcomes and the ability to create and associate roadmaps from the programs driving strategy. With the release of Planview Enterprise 13, the focus has shifted from the program managers who execute strategy, to those who create the plans that drive strategy. And in...
There’s no question that Frost & Sullivan conferences are different. They’re specifically and intentionally designed to be that way. And thank goodness for that. While Frost events don’t go as far as the free-spirited “un-conferences” put on by ProductCamp, where the lineup of presentations is established at the beginning of the day based on popular...
The recent 2016 Chief Innovation Officer Summit in New York saw no shortage of phenomenal topics, speakers, and discussions. Throughout the conference, there were several themes that became major talking points, including: Digital disruption Building a culture of innovation Disruptive technologies like virtual and augmented reality While there was plenty of information to absorb in...
When multiple teams, various tools, and stakeholders from across the business are involved, IT Service Management (ITSM) processes can be complicated and challenging to manage — but Kanban can help. We’ve created new board templates, based on ITIL guidelines, to quickly get started on managing and implementing your ITSM processes. These new Kanban board templates...
In our current intensely competitive environment, organizations confront the inevitable choice of achieving and thriving versus declining and even dying. One result of this competition is the tremendous increase in the amount of good ideas as evidenced by the bold initiatives ranging from driver-less vehicles to an entirely new economy based on apps. Regardless of...
Recently, a group of my Planview AgilePlace coworkers and I were talking Kanban. The age-old debate surrounding the definitions of lead time and cycle time came up, and we all rolled our eyes a bit. The Lean community has rehashed this topic a million times already, but it seems we still can’t seem to reach...
In my last post, I talked about the basic metrics of flow (cycle time, throughput, and WIP) and shared what data you’d need to collect to get started. Now that you have the data — how do you turn it into meaningful flow metrics? You’ll just need to learn a few simple Kanban calculations. In this...
