Your path to business agility
How are you getting the truth? I talk to people every day who struggle with resource capacity and demand planning. It’s a challenge to see what people are working on and if people are available to take on more projects. Often times they are focused on the day to day work, like an individual project...
Are your technical and business teams at odds with each other? They don’t have to be. Alignment is defined as “a position of agreement or alliance”. Aligning technical and business teams is a matter of gaining clarity and consensus around why teams are doing what they’re doing. Your teams may (and in fact, should) argue about the who, what, and when,...
Last week was Innovation Enterprise’s Chief Innovation Officer Summit (CINO) held in San Francisco. Hundreds of innovation practitioners from different industries and with varied levels of experience came together for two-days of learning and sharing. The likes of Google, Qualcomm, Boeing, and Wells Fargo were among the diverse set of brands in attendance – and...
June is right around the corner and for Tasktop that means HPE Discover! Over the past 5 years, the Pre-Sales Engineering team at Tasktop has created hundreds of Software Lifecycle Architecture Diagrams for our prospects and customers. Using a custom template, we’re able to facilitate collaborative conversations around the challenges our automotive, banking, insurance, retail, etc....
One of the questions that often gets asked of “C level” executives is what keeps them up at night? What are the addressable critical components for the role that ostensibly determine success or failure? Careers are made or vaporized if these questions aren’t contemplated, answered, planned, and then executed. In our business here at Innotas,...
Sometimes, knowing the right questions to ask can make all the difference in evaluating new tools. For example, your IT Project Portfolio Management solution may be coming apart at the seams – whether it is cobbled together spreadsheets or maybe your current solution isn’t scaling with your current (and future) business needs. You’ve been tasked...
We’re excited to release the latest updates to our resource management solution and predictive insight capabilities. These features ease the burden of resource planning, allow you to visualize impacts, and confidently drive your organization’s roadmap. We are shedding light on your portfolios with two powerful visualization capabilities. Impact Analysis Release With the Impact Analysis tool,...
When three groups with diverging interests and vocabularies come together for enterprise architecture planning, it is easy to miscommunicate when trying to prioritize expectations, issues and objectives. I’m delighted to have the opportunity to work with IT expert Colin Scott on a monthly Ask the Expert webcast where attendees can submit their questions on a...
We’re often asked, “What’s the best metric for portfolio management?” Executives and managers who oversee new product portfolios want one metric that will tell them, and their superiors, how their portfolios and the initiatives within them are doing. They want one indicator they can rely upon, whether in formal portfolio reviews or informal discussions. But there is...
I’m a new Tasktopian but not new to the software trade, having spent 15 years as a software engineer at both small and large companies here in Vancouver. Last Friday marked my fourth week at Tasktop and I felt inspired to share my initial impressions. Culture is all too often underappreciated but I consider it...
