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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...
About to start working on your new project? Congrats. It can be a fantastic undertaking. Not at least for you personally, whether it is a new move on the career ladder or a promising intrapreneur venture. You might need to build your own team, hire consultants or manage a full-time but completely distributed crew. You...
At Tasktop, we talk about Tasktop Gateway to solve a multitude of problems, but mainly it’s centered on the development and testing side of the DevOps lifecycle. So what about the IT teams who also play an integral role in software delivery? Luckily, Tasktop Gateway can help them as well. As an example, the short...
Customer success is an emerging business phenomenon driven by the rapid adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) business applications. We discussed SaaS and the impact it has on achieving customer success at the Pulse 2016 conference in Oakland, California in May. Over 3,000 people globally representing many of the world’s top enterprises and rising startups attended. As...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
