Unilever: Making Sustainable Living a Reality Through Global Collaboration

How would you make sustainable living a reality? If you’re a company like Unilever, you collaborate with a community that’s spread across the world – from employees to entrepreneurs. Just to jog your memory, Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of food, home, and personal care products, reaching two billion consumers a day...

Getting Things Done Guide: How to Create a Tech Strategy for Your Team

For almost every team that strives to work smarter and increase productivity, technology is part of the solution – and the problem. Research has shown that project managers recognize the need for new technology to support effective ways of working. But in reality, still only half have adopted new tools to increase productivity and save time. As...

FAQ: What Are My Options For Board User Access?

My name is Ryan MacGillis and I’m a Customer Support Specialist here at Planview AgilePlace. A lot of the questions we receive are from people who want to get the most out of Planview AgilePlace’s features — that’s where I come in. Periodically, I’ll be blogging about some of the most frequently asked questions I hear....

Agile Portfolio Management of Today

In today’s tech infused world, many companies strive to rise above the competition and get results from their efforts and ideas as quickly as possible. It’s okay to want instant gratification – our customers seem to expect it – but as we well know, anything great takes time. But shaving even small amounts of time...

Death of “the Project”

Looking back now, I can see that I was one of the blind men with the elephant when it came to knowing what software lifecycle integration was about. I’m now realizing that back then I only saw bits and pieces of the bigger picture. And I definitely had no clue how the small piece that...

Planview IdeaPlace Recognized as a Leader in Innovation Management in New Report

Innovation management software is quickly becoming a go-to solution for companies in all industries who want to transform their businesses and stay competitive for years to come. We’ve seen this trend pick up steam as the number of companies leveraging innovation management continues to grow. Forrester, an independent technology and market research company, has also...

Facing the Challenges of Today’s PMO

In a perfect world, the PMO delivers value and can adapt when necessary. They are engaged with their business partners, participate in planning and prioritization, adjust estimates and pivot to new priorities based on new information. But there are a number of PMO challenges to address in the real world. In the real-world, you’re more...

Agile, DevOps, Lean – What’s Your Maturity Level?

At Tasktop, we’re always looking for ways to improve your application delivery efforts. This time we have engaged Forrester Research to create the Modern Application Delivery (MAD) self-assessment tool to evaluate where your organization stands now in Agile, DevOps and Lean initiatives. In just five minutes, the assessment will help you evaluate where your organization...

How to pick dependencies from a developer’s point of view

Dependencies are an essential part of each software project. Without utilizing existing libraries the scope of a project explodes because you can’t solve every problem by yourself. Today we rely heavily on open source libraries to get the work done for us. Basically there is a library for nearly every problem and every language. But how do...

Dev Patnaik To Share Innovation Knowledge at Planview IdeaPlace’s Ignite Summit

With the 2016 Ignite Summit right around the corner, we’re thrilled to share with you one of the newest additions to our list of amazing speakers. Dev Patnaik is the Founder and CEO of Jump Associates, a strategy and innovation firm that helps companies create new businesses and reinvent existing ones — their impressive list of clients include:...