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...

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...

Synchronize Targetprocess With Other Tools In Your Agile Stack

Here at Tasktop, we’re excited about the release of our Targetprocess connector. Having used Targetprocess for almost 2 years, we are thrilled to announce the capability to synchronize Targetprocess with other tools in the agile stack. Indeed, the ability to integrate Targetprocess with other tools is something that we ourselves need and have started to...

What’s New in Application Portfolio Management?

Our customers say one of the reasons they choose Troux for managing their technology portfolios is the software can be configured to set up many kinds of analysis, including application portfolio management (APM). After engaging with hundreds of customers over the years, we’ve identified a number of configurations to support the most common APM challenges....

Gartner PPM Summit: Key Learnings for Every PMO

Every year top PMO professionals attend the Gartner PPM and IT Governance Summit – coming away with valuable key learnings from peers and analysts. This year Innotas was named a “Leader” by Gartner in the Cloud-Based IT Project and Portfolio Management Services Magic Quadrant for the fifth consecutive year (download a complimentary copy here) and...

Upcoming Webinar Provides Tips on How to Transition to Agile Methods in Marketing

In a recent three-part blog series, Tips for getting started with agile marketing and project collaboration, Ryan Doherty, Marketing Director at Planview, shared the story about how the company’s marketing organization made the shift from using a ticket system, that provided little visibility into work and resources, to using an agile marketing approach. Originally, the...

How KBC Bank Used Crowdsourced Innovation to Create Massive Employee Engagement

Fact: great ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time. Look inside your organization. How many employees do you have? 1,000? 10,000? Somewhere in your organization is an employee, maybe more than one, with an idea that can transform your business. Unfortunately, not enough companies enable or encourage their employees, in all departments, to...

What Does a Program Manager Need to Execute on Strategy?

The Project Management Institute defines a program as a group of related projects managed in a coordinated way to obtain benefits and control not available from managing them individually. But, what is a program – really? And what is a program manager? Programs are intended to accomplish a business objective. This requires individuals who can...