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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 week. 1. Lean Innovation Management – Making Corporate Innovation Work Who it’s from: Steve Blank The skinny: Steve Blank outlines how...
Invest, divest, and standardize – these are common themes when it comes to Technology Portfolio Management (TPM). While TPM is all about enabling the business to change as fast and often as possible, it can be difficult to measure the ROI of technology standardization and governing projects. In fact, successful technology portfolio programs are moving...
Business innovation is a major focus for all companies. But how can you ensure that the changes you’re making, from new processes to new products, are being received how you want them to be? According to this 2015 report by Edelman, the answer is age-old: build trust. Findings were pulled together from a survey of...
Use Social Task Management Tools for Better Project Collaboration In today’s project-driven work environment, collaborating is a way of life. Whether on a team of 5 or 25, most agree that the project manager job is not necessarily a one-size-fits-all role. Appleseed Partners polled 200 professionals based in North America who manage and participate in...
As a software engineer, the thought of breaking bones in my hand makes me wince. It’s a worst nightmare that I’d really rather not think about. Apart from the pain involved, my hands are the essential conduit that I use to manifest my ideas as code. As I approached a fallen tree at full speed...
Inevitably, every process has a bottleneck: There is some step that has a lower capacity than the steps before or after it. This may be because there are fewer resources dedicated to performing this step, or because it requires more time to complete than the other steps in the process. Regardless, this bottleneck is the limiting...
At Tasktop, our engineering teams have been using an Agile Scrum process for years, with great results for our software delivery. This process has helped us to reduce waste and provide predictability and visibility in our integration factory, which delivers 4 on-time releases every year. However, my own team, which had only recently been formed,...
It’s the season of turning leaves, warm sweaters, hot drinks, hearty foods, and for many (including the team here at Planview IdeaPlace), giving thanks. And that’s exactly what we want to extend to you — our amazing customers, loyal readers, and passionate advocates and partners. In other words, our crowd. From the very bottom of our...
“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...
