Planview Moves into a New, State-Of-The-Art Austin Headquarters

I know I say this a lot, but there has never been a better time to be a part of Planview. When I look back at Planview’s past, at the present and forward to the future, it is with thankful eyes and a humble heart. In May, we moved into our new, 51,000 square-foot Austin,...

Customer-Centric to the Core

At Planview AgilePlace, Lean isn’t just the product we sell. It’s in our name because we passionately believed in it when we founded the company, and we still do today. By embracing Lean across our company, we’ve adopted a customer-centric approach — not only in our product development, but also in every other department, from...

Do You Have 5 Minutes? The True Cost of Context Switching

The dreaded question, “Do you have five minutes?” seems to be relatively harmless on the surface; who doesn’t have five minutes to spare? Everyone wants to be helpful — which is why you’re always willing to put down what you’re doing to hear your coworker’s burning questions. Then, you struggle to wrap your head around...

What EA Software Was Co-Developed by Enterprise Architects?

In my 15 years with Troux, we’ve stood at the forefront of enterprise architecture software development and we’ve never done it alone. Our customers’ input has always been a big factor in our overall direction. Before, our process was simply to ask, listen and create. Now, as a part of Planview, we’re taking things a...

How Product Owners and Scrum Teams Can Drive Project Collaboration

In the modern globalized economy, enterprise workplaces have many stakeholders, changing requirements, shifting deadlines and varying execution styles. This makes Agile execution increasingly challenging — particularly when managing scrum teams using multiple tools and applications. With that in mind, I interviewed Zach McDowell, product owner at Projectplace, to find out how he uses project collaboration...

Benchmarking Your PMO

Every year, Innotas conducts a survey of project management professionals – Project Managers, PMOs, CIOs, and IT Management – to help get a sense of trends in project and portfolio management. Over the years, several trends seem to continue, while new insights always seem to enter the forefront, regardless there is always something interesting to share,...

Visa Calls on Startups for Innovative Solutions

On April 29th, in order to solve their biggest business challenges, Visa turned to the startup community for help with the announcing of its second-annual Everywhere Initiative. The Everywhere Initiative is a challenge where Visa presents three business problems that call for solutions from the startup community. Winning startups receive $50,000 to pilot their ideas...

Free HPE ALM to HPE ALM Octane Integration

As we mentioned in our previous post about HPE ALM Octane, Tasktop customers frequently come to us to help alleviate the stress that the rollout of a new tool can bring. To help organizations ease adoption of HPE ALM Octane we’re offering to synchronize your defects between HPE ALM and HPE ALM Octane for free....

What’s the Answer to Innovation in Portfolio and Resource Management? The Answer Is 12.

Today’s launch of Planview Enterprise Version 12 is a significant milestone in a multi-year journey to create the most intuitive user experience (UX) in the PPM market and introduce strategic planning into portfolio and resource management. Precipitated by the ongoing expansion of portfolio and resource management as an enterprise-wide discipline, we’ve been partnering with our...

Engagement Is the ROI on the Front End of Innovation

Practicing collaborative innovation takes time, money, and attention. Organizational leaders ask practitioners to “show me the ROI.” How does the practice benefit the organization? In this article innovation architect Doug Collins explores how engagement serves as the return on the front end of the practice—and why engagement matters. Go with the flow People who practice...