Driving Innovation with Kanban at Jaguar Land Rover

In this webinar, I share how Kanban is being implemented across new vehicle development projects at Jaguar Land Rover to improve time, cost and quality. I’ll share the results of a Kanban product development proof of concept to accelerate design and development, the success of which is driving adoption across multiple programs. You’ll see how...

Planview AgilePlace Summer Pull Planning 2016

More than 130 Planview AgilePlace employees from across the country (and even some from across the pond!) gathered at HQ in Franklin, Tenn., last week for a time of learning, collaborating and planning for what lies ahead. As a nod to our Kanban roots, we’ve named these weeks “pull planning” sessions, which serve as a time to reflect on...

Designing Synchronization To The Company Standard

In my previous blog post I discussed how planning is key to success. Once the planning is complete, then comes the design, which can be simple to configure with our suite of integration tools. With some practice, you can configure 8 mappings between 2 projects and 4 types using templates. This includes development of the...

Work management software becomes framework for collaboration in leading German hotel company

With over 3,000 employees and close to 10,000 rooms, H-Hotels AG is one Germany’s largest hotel companies. With so many moving parts in its operation – from continuous investments in modernization to the all daily efforts to provide the best possible service every guest – H-hotels identified a need for smarter facilitation of projects and initiatives....

How to Guarantee Failure in Your Agile DevOps Transformation

Many organizations make the same mistakes when it comes to scaling Agile and DevOps and then attempt to rectify those mistakes by formulating a new strategy—only to miss the real reasons why the initiative failed. As someone who helps companies through software delivery transformations, I’ve seen my share of ineffective behaviors. What I find most...

How Do You Turn Strategic Goals into an Executable Plan?

Having played a big role in Planview Enterprise 12, I find myself reflecting on what we are striving to help our customers achieve in terms of prioritization and capacity planning, along with what is happening with IT today. Technology has integrated itself in every aspect of our lives as well as business. To stay competitive,...

Optimizing the PMO to Meet Today’s Challenges

We learned in a recent webinar with Melinda Ballou, analyst at IDC and author of the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Cloud PPM and PPM SaaS 2015-2016 Vendor Assessment that challenges facing today’s Program Management Offices (PMOs) are ever-changing; staying ahead of the curve has proven to be more challenging than ever as technology advances quicker than...

Summer of Agile Reading List

This week marked the official start of summer in the northern hemisphere, and here at Tasktop, we’ve declared this the Summer of Agile. We got started a bit early with last week’s webinar: SAFe & Requirements Management: Oxymoron or Practical Reality? with our VP of Product Management, Nicole Bryan. To be fair, Nicole and I...

Managing Constraints Effectively with the Right Resource Planning Software – Enrich Consulting

Watch a three-minute overview of the Enrich Analytics features discussed in this case study. Growth is a good thing—it means larger market share, more profit, greater reach. But it also brings challenges, as a company struggles to allocate resources to support growth without over-committing itself. A rapidly growing pharmaceutical company faced exactly this dilemma: the company...