Your path to business agility
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill The holidays are here which means spending quality time with family and friends, expressing gratitude, reflecting on the past year, and above all- giving back. At Planview, we have a lot to be thankful for and we like to show our gratitude by lending a hand and giving back to our local communities. Earlier...
In my last blog, I emphasized how a compelling reason to change is a fundamental precondition for starting a project to product journey. In this blog, I take that a step further and discuss three key characteristics that your organization should create as they take their first steps. Start small It’s critical to generate early...
Functioning in silos instead of cross-functional value streams, funding scope/projects instead of capacity, leadership collecting metrics on utilization instead of value delivered – many organizations are realizing that their current ways of organizing aren’t enough to stay competitive in a rapidly changing world. While they know they need to change, there’s not a lot of...
There are many ways to assess the perceived viability or potential effectiveness of a proposed experiment. Teams can determine the options to improve flow, but it may not be clear what aspects of their work to address. While it’s best to start and get feedback as quickly as possible, a lightweight test may shine a...
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...
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...
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,...
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! *** ...
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...
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...
