An Insider’s Guide to Modern PPM: Evolving Approaches and Technology

PMOs are in a state of transition: ever shifting to support different teams, ways of working, strategic objectives, transformation programs, priorities, and more. Managing this level of complexity and constant change requires a modern approach to PPM – one that positions the PMO to become a more strategic creator of business value. “The Insider’s Guide...

Here’s Your Agile Track Recap from Accelerate

In case you missed it, Planview’s premier customer conference was bigger and better than ever this year!  The virtual event attracted almost 2,800 registrants from more than 45 countries on Sept. 21-22.   On the jam-packed agenda were several presentations, customer stories, and roundtable discussions aimed at supporting Agile leaders at all levels of the organization.  If you didn’t get to attend these engaging sessions, read on to get the scoop!  Becoming Agile and Beyond  The Agile track “Becoming Agile...

The Benefits of Tasktop’s Affinity Modeling

Integration is all about getting data to where it needs to be — creating a copy of a specific set of information from one location to another — and then keeping those two copies in sync.  In software delivery tools, the data of interest exists as objects termed “artifacts”, which are work items like features,...

How I Manage Risks in Planview AgilePlace

For Andrew Doran, a program portfolio manager working in the banking industry in the U.K., managing risks in Planview AgilePlace has yielded big benefits. Read on to learn how he and his department leverage Planview’s Enterprise Kanban solution (AKA LeanKitTM) to see at a glance all their risks and track the work as it gets completed across the organization.  Thank you, Andrew, for sharing your story with us!  *** ...

Product Release: Planview Hub 21.4 – Integration-at-scale just got faster

The new product release for the Tasktop value stream management platform — Planview Hub 21.4 — is out today. The latest evolution of Hub makes integrating at enterprise-scale even faster than before. This release also adds TestRail and the Jira Portfolio plug-in to Tasktop’s 60+ connectors to best-of-breed Agile and DevOps tools.  Introducing Affinity Modeling...

DevOps Enterprise Summit USA: Flow Metrics in Action

It’s been just over a week since this year’s virtual DevOps Enterprise Summit USA and I don’t know about you, but I am already missing the vibrant Slack conversations, the impromptu Gather interactions, the industry-leading content and the many networking opportunities that brought together the thriving DevOps community.  DevOps and OKRs The event saw the...

A Day in the Life of a Senior Customer Care Manager

Everyone knows that when you sell a product, it must be high quality and there should be need for it in the marketplace. Once this has been established, companies have to make sure the product has excellent customer service and support. No one understands this more than Yessica Archilla, a Senior Customer Care Manager at Planview. Yessica, who many would describe as passionate, driven, and direct, yet approachable, manages several customer support product teams at Planview.  ...

Project Management Communication Plan

A robust and realistic project management communication plan is essential for project success. This informative and easy-to-read article looks at basic concepts of a project management communication plan, and provides examples, strategies and best practices. There are several paths to project glory. However, one characteristic that all successful projects have in common is effective and...

VSMC Launches First Value Stream Management (VSM) Course

As a founding member of the Value Stream Management Consortium (VSMC), Tasktop is always seeking to support the industry and the growth of Value Stream Management (VSM) in as many ways as we can. We believe that VSM is critical for companies to not just survive but thrive in the Age of Software. After publishing...

3 Reasons Your SAFe® Journey Has Lost Its Way 

With the 2021 Global SAFe® Summit only a week away (September 27 – October 1), the software delivery community will come together once again to tackle that ever-pressing question: just how do you marry technical agility with business agility to support customers more effectively?  The most popular framework for scaling software development, SAFe continues to...