Your path to business agility
“Hello, my name is ____ and I’m addicted to email.” For a lot of people, this isn’t really so much an addiction as just a day-to-day reality that ends up sucking hours out of our days and weeks out of years. Instead of connecting teams, tools like email make it more difficult to stay focused...
No one plans on letting project deadlines slip, missing business opportunities, or slowing innovation. Whether overcommitting or underutilizing, there is always a high price to pay for not using resources efficiently or focusing them on the most strategic efforts. Just how costly? According to a 2014 benchmark study of 480 planning and resource leaders from...
Your team is stressed; priorities are unclear. You’re not sure what your teammates are working on and management isn’t helping. Sound familiar? If so, watch this webinar to find out how Kanban can help. About this Webinar In this webinar, I’ll discuss how enterprise Kanban can be used to: Improve the full value chain Boost engagement,...
Managing your workload is for most professionals a major aspect of their jobs. For leaders in modern organizations, your workload is about empowering others to manage. This is an art in itself and can be as inspiring as it is challenging. To meet this challenge, software has been evolving to meet workforces’ needs and tap into...
As an innovation practitioner, ensuring that program leaders can motivate people to participate in their innovation programs is something I spend quite a lot of time thinking about. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that crowdsourced innovation is extremely effective. But, to be successful, you must find the right approach to consistently — and...
Thanksgiving time always gives me the chance to take a step back and look at all the things that I am grateful for. Of course, I am thankful for family, friends, my health, and all the things that make my world go around. But beyond that, there are things in life I view as “niceties”...
Welcome to Planview IdeaPlace’s weekly link roundup, where we feature a carefully curated selection of our favorite links to great content on innovation, crowdsourcing, and more from around the web. Here are 10 new discoveries from this week. 1. The Transformation From Tradition in Healthcare – From Volume to Value Who it’s from: PR Web The...
I recently published a post about why I love working with open source software. At Tasktop, we have a strong open source history. Because of their participation in open source communities, many people already knew each other long before joining Tasktop. Last Thursday, one of my team members reached out and asked for advice with...
At the Agile2015 conference last August, I overheard a tool vendor demonstrating metrics reports to an interested visitor. Wanting to learn more, I lingered by the booth. The visitor expressed interest in lead time metrics and asked if there was any way to exclude weekends from the lead time reports. I intruded (in my politest, most respectable way)...
These past eight months I’’ve spent working at Tasktop, I’’ve picked up some truly interesting and marketable skills. Among the expected skills for a Quality Assurance Engineer (attention to detail, ability to assess large swaths of code for functionality, critical thinking for creating tests, communication skills) one of the skills my colleagues point out is the fine...
