Blueprint Guest Blog: Improving Accuracy On Large-Scale Agile Projects

Defining complete, accurate software requirements has long challenged organizations, and those challenges have grown exponentially, particularly in large organizations delivering sizeable projects in complex environments. The business environment has become increasingly urgent as new customer demands compel organizations to innovate quickly to capitalize on fleeting opportunities. Business needs IT to deliver faster than ever. At...

Top 10 Innovation Links of the Week: 11.13.15

Welcome to our brand new weekly link roundup, featuring a carefully curated selection of hand-picked links to great content on innovation, crowdsourcing, and more from around the web. Here are our 10 favorite discoveries from this week. 1. 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company Who it’s from: Harvard Business Review The skinny: Renowned innovation leader,...

5 Ways to Find Slack Time for Critical IT Improvements

As an IT department, you receive so many requests that you often have to put your own long-term improvements on the back burner. When you finally come up for air, you realize that your tech platform left the “patchable” state a long time ago — and now it’s burning. You need slack time to make...

Are You Wasting Valuable Time Managing Projects?

How many hours a week are you wasting when it comes to day-to-day job stress, complex internal processes, and completing tasks outside your main role? The answer may depend on whether you live in Europe or the United States. In Europe, Project Managers report wasting up to three hours per week or 20 working days...

A Bigger Boat or a Smaller Shark?

[Jaws theme song] Duuun dun duuun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun… In the 1975 Stephen Spielberg film Jaws, actor Roy Schneider (aka Brody) famously states “We’re gonna need a bigger boat.” This is also a great analogy from Jerry Manas’ latest book The Resource Management and Capacity Planning Handbook and one that IT...

New Work Management App: Planning, Teamwork and Personal To-Dos in One Tool

Finally, after months of preparations, we are today releasing the full version of our new Projectplace app for teams and small organizations to manage their work and get things done. All essential tools for work and project management are now available for all team members for the first time: Planning, teamwork and personal task management in one integrated, seamless,...

Focus on Business, Not Technology

Technology Portfolio Management (TPM) has traditionally focused on reducing the cost and risk of IT through technology standardization and governing projects that alter the IT landscape. We have noticed a maturing trend as TPM moves beyond these fundamental tasks. While there are many factors contributing to this, there are three noteworthy themes we see fairly...

Resource Management Q&A

In our recent webinar, Getting the Most Value of Your Project Resources, we had the chance to really dive deep into Q&A, and get some good insight from our audience about resource planning and management. What is the advantage of managing projects in a tool over a spreadsheet? Of course, if you are a one-person show...

4 Ways to Breathe New Life into Your Innovation Program

You’ve done the groundwork for creating a successful innovation program. You’ve learned what mistakes to avoid, and even moved forward with adopting innovation management software like Planview IdeaPlace to enable innovation in a way that’s valuable and repeatable. So why aren’t things taking off how you imagined they would? If you’re still struggling to make...

Getting Things Done: Today’s Employees Need a Better Way to Work

Shifting demographics, cross-organizational initiatives, and agile approaches are changing the way today’s teams do their jobs. People work anywhere and everywhere, across time zones, locations and cultures. More and more people are managing projects on a regular basis, though they’re not officially project managers. In addition, companies are working faster to get products and services...