Your path to business agility
As predictable as the arrival of the end of July, so too is the predictability of Tasktop’s quarterly release train. Every three months, we release our entire product line, adding additional endpoints, adding support for the new version releases for endpoints we already support and enhancing our products with features that streamline and automate SDLC...
Editor’s note: Last month, Maggie Riad, VP of Innovation Strategy at Planview IdeaPlace, held a webinar: ‘10 Ways to Increase Employee Engagement in your Innovation Program’. This article is a continuation of this webinar, which you can watch on-demand, where Maggie answers several questions that came up but didn’t have a chance to answer. Q:...
In a complex manufacturing environment, knowing who is doing what, when and how can be cumbersome – especially if you have numerous stakeholders involved in different project phases. Whether trying to get a product to market swiftly or ensuring a smooth roll-out of safety standards, more and more manufacturing organizations are turning to cloud-based project...
As a product manager, I know firsthand how important it is to create capacity for driving innovation to the marketplace. According to the newly released 2016 Resource Management and Capacity Planning Benchmark Study, more organizations are discovering the importance of capacity planning to speed innovation and time-to-market. Ideas are often plentiful if the organization can’t...
If you’ve been watching the latest trends, you’re no doubt already aware enterprise IT and PMO leaders are feeling increased pressure to deliver on digital transformation initiatives. In today’s market, providing a seamless customer experience is a top priority, and, more than ever, it’s a company’s digital transformation initiatives that are instrumental in delivering on...
Businesses are under increasing pressure to swiftly innovate, execute digital transformation programs and deliver fast enough to meet growth objectives. Yet this year’s 2016 Resource Management and Capacity Planning Benchmark Study confirms a trend seen in multiple studies over the years in both product development and IT: Organizations continue to overcommit their resources again and...
As Director of Product Management for Planview Enterprise, I have helped shape its evolution for the past 13 years. It’s been quite a journey, and the last four years in particular have been especially rewarding. In his blog post introducing Planview Enterprise 12 just a month ago, Patrick Tickle mentioned that we have brought the...
Augmented and virtual reality technologies are here. While still arguably in their infancy, it won’t be long until the technologies reach a level of maturity where companies can’t ignore the value they can add to business processes and engagement. One industry that has truly begun to value this new wave of technology is manufacturing. In...
Of course, I’m talking about the new timesheet launched in Planview Enterprise 12, which we’re very excited about. While not everyone values timesheets as much as I do, in many ways, they are the unsung heroes of project portfolio management. I realize individual timesheets will never be the focus of a boardroom discussion or a...
In Nicole Bryan’s latest blog published on Sys-Con Media she asks her readers to, “Consider the following integration scenarios: Moving medical records between EMR systems; financial information between banking systems; HR information between ERP systems; and software development information between SDLC tools.” She explains that at first glance the approaches required for these integrations may...
