Your path to business agility
They were righteous and glorious, organized and well-informed. Their projects were always on time, on budget, and in scope. Soon, their skills spread to their personal lives. Giving regular status reports to family members while doing laundry and creating Gantt charts to plan get-togethers became the norm. Was it wrong to bring such talent and aptitude...
A long-held axiom is that knowledge is power. Nowhere is this truer than when trying to determine how to resolve persistent resource overloads. But it’s hard to know how to address the constraints of your workforce if you don’t understand the scope and volume of work that’s competing for their time. This is why gaining...
Recently, in our webinar, “The 7 Deadly Sins of Project Management” we learned from Justin Rowe, Practice Director at our consulting partner, Lewis Fowler. In the presentation, Justin discussed the sins of project management as well as how to recognize and correct them. This resulted in mass attendee participation in questions, many of them very...
Anyone who has worked as part of a team knows collaboration isn’t always easy. It requires communicating with others and having visibility into what’s happening, all while balancing changing requirements, shifting deadlines and varying execution styles. This becomes even more challenging when you consider that your average person works on more than one project at...
We’re excited to announce that Planview has been recognized as a “Leader” in the recently released Forrester Wave for Enterprise Collaborative Work Management report. This position validates Projectplace’s offerings, specifically citing “Planview balances work and collaboration for a well-designed experience.” Collaborative work management is a key element in successful project execution. This level of analyst...
Companies that use innovation management tools — such as Planview IdeaPlace — in conjunction with their collaborative innovation practices regularly come up with new and interesting use cases. Because organizations have begun to staff and fund internal business incubators, employees now have the tools, training, and space they need to pursue ideas. Collaborative Innovation and Authentic Breakthroughs...
We’ve all been there: the meeting, the hallway chat, the email that renders weeks or months of hard work moot. This is how things are, sometimes. Strategies shift. Priorities change. It’s frustrating, but it’s not like this is the only thing taking up a developer’s time. Consider the status reporting, emails, meetings, documentation, and so...
Traceability first requires the ability to connect SDLC artifacts. When tools are loosely stitched together, artifacts are not connected and there is no traceability. Without traceability, your software development process is likely cursed. We all want our teams using tooling that is optimal for each lifecycle stage, but if the tooling isn’t tightly integrated to support...
The technology world is changing fast, faster than ever. A few years ago, we thought that only the Amazons or Facebooks of this world would be able to do continuous delivery. Now, the phenomenon is getting traction, starting to become mainstream and before we know it, it will be commoditized. Everybody will do it. Why?...
Forgive me, for I have sinned. It started from decisions that no one could explain, direction no one understood. Innocent project managers were drowning from decisions made around them. Some disappeared and were never seen again. They had influence and experience, along with a false sense of security. Nothing was what it seemed. A Project Management Office that...
