Your path to business agility
Last month I introduced the concept of Work and Resource Management as a way to deal with the complexity confronting organizations of all sizes. Eight forces are creating this complexity today, constraining the progress of organizations and teams as they try to innovate and deliver on their strategic objectives. The basic issue and opportunity here...
What would it mean to your company’s innovation speed if you could shift your decision timelines from months/weeks to days? Or if you could speed time-to-market with better ability to see and optimize resources? What if you could be confident that resources are working on the highest value work in the portfolio? According to the...
This is the time of year for giving thanks and passing the turkey around family and friends. Others see this time of year as a chance to get a head start on holiday shopping and scoring deals for the gear they’ve been eyeing all year. While many are enjoying this season, project managers and PMO...
Thanksgiving is about more than just football and turkey, but since that is what’s top of mind this time of year let’s keep that in mind as you prioritize your projects for next year. Prioritization of projects is an essential part of PMO value contribution. Unless your PMO has more resources than it knows what...
One key area of importance for Planview AdaptiveWork is our focus on employee engagement. We believe that when employees and teams are focused, active and able to see how their work fits into the big picture, they’ll become more engaged, driven and productive. The opposite of employee engagement is playfully portrayed, to the theme of Netflix’s...
Wouldn’t It Be Great If… In the world of IT Ops, we face a constant tug-of-war between implementing new technology, keeping the lights on, and resolving unplanned issues. In the thick of our work, we’re constantly generating ideas for how to automate, standardize, and improve our processes (i.e., “Wouldn’t it be great if….”). We know...
As we close in on Innovation Enterprise’s annual Chief Innovation Officer Summit in NYC, I caught up with Carrie Nauyalis, Executive in Residence, dynamic speaker and attendee at the Summit, to get her thoughts on how to get the most out of your experience at this great innovation event. Read this short interview for answers...
Note from the editor: In the original version of this post, we used the term Center of Excellence to describe a group of people who committed to learning and teaching Lean and Kanban methods within their teams. After several engaging discussions with internal and external thought leaders, we agreed that the term Community of Practice...
Over the past several weeks we’ve launched the most exciting product announcements in Planview history. Fall 2016 Productpolooza features major updates to Planview Enterprise, Troux, Innotas, and Projectplace. What’s so exciting is not just the new features and enhancements we’ve added to each product… it’s also about how these products – individually and in different...
You’ve done your research; you know how visualizing your work with Kanban could help your team work smarter, communicate better, and produce higher quality work. But your boss isn’t sold. Unless you can explain why limiting work in process and implementing a pull system is going to boost revenue, they’re not interested. They aren’t convinced...
