Top benefits of collaborative work management

Workplace collaboration is one of the hottest topics in business today, and for good reason. Companies that prioritize collaboration, especially those that take advantage of online tools, are rapidly outpacing competitors that fall behind the trend. When an organization makes collaboration a priority, it can expect to see improvements in a variety of areas, from...

Interviewing tips for first-time project managers

Interviewing for your first project manager position can be an exciting and rewarding experience. At the same time, it can also be stressful and time-consuming. Despite the steadily increasing demand for project managers in every industry, competition for PM roles is always fierce. When you’ve polished your resume, bought a new outfit and are starting...

PSOs: How to prevent customers uttering the scariest statement of all

As professional services organizations (PSOs) know all-too-well, there are several worrisome statements that customers can utter, and quite a few alarming ones as well. However, there’s one announcement in particular that’s enough to send chills up and down the spine of even the hardiest, most battle-tested executive or project manager: “We don’t understand this invoice.”...

How Kanban Keeps Us on the Same Page

My name is Ariel Klontz, and I have been working at Planview AgilePlace for the past few months as an intern alongside Andy Hoover on the Customer Documentation team. When I first started here, I was nervous about how much work I could really accomplish on a part-time basis; but working at Planview AgilePlace opened...

Work and Resource Management Is Now

Since 1989, Planview has been on a mission to help every one of our customers realize their resource potential. In the early days this vision translated to a fairly simplistic formula. Resources were typically people and financial in nature, projects were what the resources delivered, and the goal was to ensure the projects were aligned...

What’s New: Greater Flexibility with Custom Fields

With the launch of Custom Fields, you can now capture additional information in your Kanban cards that’s unique to your organization or team. This gives you greater flexibility to tailor Planview AgilePlace to meet the needs of your business as your Lean initiative grows. Whether you’re in IT operations, software development, project management, marketing or HR,...

Walk with Planview at the American Heart Association’s Austin Heart Walk

What if you could help reduce death and disability from cardiovascular diseases and stroke by 20 percent by 2020? Most of you would say “awesome!” Maybe this goal even brings to mind a family member or friend who was on the losing end of this battle. By day, I am an e-learning instructional designer creating...

Understanding the Relationship Between Lean, Agile, and DevOps

With the ever-increasing business demand for IT services, IT organizations need a sustainable way to scale their service capacity. They need to manage the increasing demand, while developing efficient, sustainable processes to safely scale. To do this, many IT organizations have turned to leading workflow models and concepts, namely: Lean, Agile, and DevOps. These methodologies...

Who Says PPM Can’t Be Sexy?

We’re excited to unveil a newer, sexier version of Innotas Project Portfolio Management (PPM) solution featuring a brand new user interface, which was designed for ease of use while delivering a more efficient way to manage business critical projects and address the lack of time and resources that are a challenge for today’s PMOs. The...

Thinking Beyond the Annual Plan

In part one of this three part series, I discuss how Companies want to Improve Plan Accuracy and can do so with continuous planning – summarizing key takeaways from a new study and eBook by Ventana Research. This blog is about the need to think beyond the annual plan and to learn about the top four...