Your path to business agility
Let’s face it, the annual plan is a lot like making a New Year’s resolution to exercise more – It’s a great idea but not always realistic. Just like in business, you may establish a plan to run a marathon. Throughout your training, things happen. You miss training workouts, priorities with family, and other obligations...
Knowing the current cost and estimated value of every initiative in your portfolio is nice, but when executives meet for a review, what they really want to know is: What’s changed since the last review, was it good or bad, and why? The above is true whether a month, a quarter, or a year has...
There’s a wealth of information available to every Planview AgilePlace user through the use of the Planview AgilePlace Application Programming Interface (API). The API can be used to extract status information for a custom report, automate routine tasks such as moving or updating a card, synchronize data with another system, and many other useful tasks. However,...
You can now connect interdependent work items on the same Planview AgilePlace board. This helps teams break down work so they can deliver value in smaller, faster increments — without losing sight of the bigger picture. You can decompose your work as granularly as you need. Agile teams, for example, may use epics, stories and tasks,...
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Braden Kelley. Can you think of a single innovation that didn’t change something? I didn’t think so. Innovation is change, or at least, innovation requires change. In my role as an innovation keynote speaker and workshop facilitator, I recently led a German-based industrial company’s North American IT...
People are talking about the misaligned middle. How can it be that executives understand the value of emerging practices in IT Operations, such as Lean and DevOps, and individual contributors in the trenches get it, but the middle managers just don’t seem to? Are they unaware? Stubborn? Is it learned helplessness? Sandwiched between leadership and individual contributors,...
Imagine this scenario. All the fields from all the artifacts in one system synchronize to your other tool, but you’re responsible for reconstituting each artifact. You have to collect all the comments, statuses and attachments for each Story, Task and Requirement and put them back together. Sounds horrific, right? That’s because the relationship between the...
Hello, my name is Geoff Craig and I am an Automation Engineer here at Planview AgilePlace. In my previous life, I worked in IT Operations for numerous companies, large and small, on projects of varying complexity. In every IT Operations group that I’ve worked with, there were always competing priorities from different parts of the...
With just 79 days left until this year’s Planview IdeaPlace Ignite Summit, we’re excited to announce our first round of top-notch speakers. Last year, over 140 leaders from globally recognized companies like IBM, AT&T, MetLife, Cigna, PwC, Unitedhealth Group, Siemens, Estee Lauder and more gathered at our Boston Summit to share new ideas, challenges, and findings resulting...
Now that the holidays are in the rear view mirror, January is over, and the Superbowl is in the air, it’s time for project management professionals to buckle down and focus. Many of you have already missed your resolutions or are off to a bad start (guilty as charged here), but it isn’t too late...
