Golf And Product Management: An Unlikely Parallel?

For 14 years of my life I thought I would pursue a career in professional golf. That was my goal from the time I was 8 years old, so day-in and day-out I focused on that goal with endless hours of practice, physical awareness, health and later, an – NCAA DI scholarship and tournament wins....

Top Three Takeaways from Frost & Sullivan’s MindxChange

This year marked the 10th anniversary of the Frost & Sullivan New Product Innovation & Development MindxChange, and it was a great one! If you’re unfamiliar with Frost & Sullivan, and their contribution to everything innovation, I can ensure you that they don’t throw your granddad’s event. This year was 3 days packed to brim...

Managing Complex Workflows in Planview AgilePlace

Are miscommunications, handoff delays and unforeseen issues impacting your organization’s ability to deliver? Watch this webinar to learn how to reflect your work structure in Planview AgilePlace so you can keep work flowing across multiple teams. About this Webinar In this webinar, Chip Carey, Director of Customer Success at Planview AgilePlace, discusses how to: Decompose...

Top 3 C-Level Reports

Reports are a great way to evaluate data based on the information that matters to your organization. The great thing about reports, and dashboards in particular, is that they facilitate communication between project managers and executives in an easy to understand manner. The other part we love about dashboards is they are not easy to...

Planview IdeaPlace Ignite Summit 2016: Registration is Now Open!

Last year, we hosted our first annual Planview IdeaPlace Ignite Innovation Summit in one of nation’s most beautiful and historically innovative cities: Boston, MA. The event was an incredible success, with over 140 attendees from industry giants like IBM, AT&T, MetLife, Cigna, PwC, Pfizer, Unitedhealth Group, Siemens, Estee Lauder, and more. This April, the Summit...

Combining Agile Marketing and Project Collaboration

Whether launching a new product or nailing down all the deliverables for a customer conference, marketing professionals are managing multiple projects for spreadsheets and emails to continue to be efficient. As a marketer myself, I can relate to the struggle. In the past, I have coordinated events and have often compared it to herding cats....

Top 10 Innovation Links for the Week of 1.22.16

Welcome to Planview IdeaPlace’s weekly roundup of innovation links, where we feature a carefully curated selection of our favorite content on innovation, crowdsourcing, and more from around the web. Here are 10 new discoveries from this past week. 1. Waze is Driving Into City Hall Who it’s from: Fast Company The skinny: In just a few years,...

[Trends 2016] When your apps start collaborating

On 29 October 1969, scientists connected a computer at the University of California in Los Angeles to a remote computer at SRI International in Menlo Park, California. ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet was born. Two years later, the Internet protocol ‘TCP/IP’ was created as a lingua franca for computers around the world to communicate...

Less Meetings, More Doing

In a lot of companies, project managers and resource managers sit down every week in an annoying productive meeting to discuss what resources are needed in various projects, and get an agreement on resource assignments. This is usually done based on information collected in spreadsheets that project managers and resource managers make and share. Of...

4 marketing use cases for project collaboration

How to improve organizational performance for marketers: Project execution, efficiency, and agility For marketing professionals, using traditional tools like email and spreadsheets to track projects, status, and collaboration on documents is becoming more of a pain than an efficient way to conduct business. In my 18 years in the technology space, I’ve had many product...