A Day in the Life of a Senior Customer Care Manager

Everyone knows that when you sell a product, it must be high quality and there should be need for it in the marketplace. Once this has been established, companies have to make sure the product has excellent customer service and support. No one understands this more than Yessica Archilla, a Senior Customer Care Manager at Planview. Yessica, who many would describe as passionate, driven, and direct, yet approachable, manages several customer support product teams at Planview.  ...

Project Management Communication Plan

A robust and realistic project management communication plan is essential for project success. This informative and easy-to-read article looks at basic concepts of a project management communication plan, and provides examples, strategies and best practices. There are several paths to project glory. However, one characteristic that all successful projects have in common is effective and...

VSMC Launches First Value Stream Management (VSM) Course

As a founding member of the Value Stream Management Consortium (VSMC), Tasktop is always seeking to support the industry and the growth of Value Stream Management (VSM) in as many ways as we can. We believe that VSM is critical for companies to not just survive but thrive in the Age of Software. After publishing...

3 Reasons Your SAFe® Journey Has Lost Its Way 

With the 2021 Global SAFe® Summit only a week away (September 27 – October 1), the software delivery community will come together once again to tackle that ever-pressing question: just how do you marry technical agility with business agility to support customers more effectively?  The most popular framework for scaling software development, SAFe continues to...

9 Ways to Get Ideas Brewing with Instant Coffee

Getting your best ideas brewing can be difficult, especially if you don’t have the right tools for the job. No matter what type of work you do, you likely do a fair amount of brainstorming, planning, and “noodling” in your daily work.  We created Instant Coffee to help facilitate better idea generation — whether you’re...

Everything You Need to Know About Planview Accelerate 2021

We’re just one week away from Planview Accelerate – our largest and most comprehensive customer event in company history. For the last 24 years Planview has hosted this conference to bring our customers together to share their stories, network with their peers, talk with Planview experts and level up their skills across all of Planview’s products. This year, we’re hosting the event on a virtual platform – which means we’re able...

Two Real-World Stories: Cultivating a Single Source of Truth

How does a large enterprise cultivate a single source of truth across teams, departments, continents, and solutions? Planview enlisted not one, but two global Fortune 500 customers to tell their transformation stories during a “Fireside Chat: Power of Having One Single Source of Truth.” Each company is a trailblazer in evolving PPM to meet stakeholder...

How Much Do Project Managers Make?

How Much Do Project Managers Make? This informative and easy-to-read article answers the question “How much do project managers make?”, and provides practical tips for project managers to significantly boost their earning potential, career prospects, and job satisfaction. While some professions are struggling to survive in the face automation and obsolescence, others are accelerating in...

Everything You Need to Know About OKRs

Do you know everything you need to know about OKRs? OKRs, which stands for Objectives and Key Results, is a widely popular process that companies use to link organizational and team goals to measurable outcomes. OKRs help to answer these two questions: To help you achieve your objective of learning more about Objectives and Key...

Six Lessons from the Women@Planview guest, Lisa Eggerton, CMO at BigCommerce

As Planview Inc. continues to expand with new employees, acquisitions, and products, internally we are developing and growing as individuals. Pursuing knowledge in the workforce is the foundation of the first ERGs (Employee Resource Group) started at Planview, the Women@Planview. This group’s goal is to counsel and bring in speakers to encourage everyone to be their best in life and in business.  In July, we had the honor of hosting Lisa Eggerton, the Chief Marketing Officer at BigCommerce, for an engaging conversation titled Advancing Women Leaders in Today’s Workplace:...