Building the Best Vision for Your PMO: 4 Mandatory Components

Whether your PMO is brand new or has been around for years, the vision is one of the key components. Without it, each person is beating to their own drum and moving in a different direction. Powerful and guiding, a clear vision will align everyone to make sure we’re all moving towards the same goals....

Work Visualized with Projectplace’s New Dashboard Section

Instant access to the status of your ongoing work and projects is crucial information to stay on track with your project and reach goals, not just for you but for the whole team. From today, project managers, team members, and senior management get instant insight into project status and work progress with new Dashboard section...

All team members keep track of progress with new Dashboard section in Projectplace

Work has now become even more visualized in Projectplace. All team members can easily keep track of progress with a brand new Dashboard section.  Instant access to realtime status updates of your projects is invaluable information for teams and project managers. Planview is now releasing a new Dashboard section in Projectplace with widgets providing a clear visualization of how a project is...

Getting Started: Top 5 Kanban Resources

The Kanban technique emerged in the late 1940s as Toyota’s reimagined approach to manufacturing and engineering. The system’s highly visual nature allowed teams to communicate more easily on what work needed to be done and when. It also standardized cues and refined processes, which helped to reduce waste and maximize value. The application of Kanban to knowledge...

Planview IdeaPlace Customer Spotlight: Crowdsourcing Safety with PUSD’s InnovationU

Crowdsourcing innovation is one of today’s most powerful tools for effecting real, lasting change. No matter the industry, it exposes business challenges and social issues to diverse perspectives like nothing else can, inviting ideas that might otherwise remain unheard. It was exactly this benefit that led the Poway Unified School District of California to develop...

Three Key Criteria When Choosing Project Portfolio Management (PPM) Software

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software will bring several benefits to any organization, regardless of size, industry sector, or maturity.  PPM software will increase your visibility into the work your resources are executing, enable you to prioritize new work that is being requested, make your organization run more efficiently and ultimately increase the ROI of your...

The 7 Deadly Wastes of Lean

Several of us among Planview AgilePlace’s founders and early employees first learned about Lean in the context of logistics and manufacturing. We wrote and implemented software that helped big companies buy and move and track physical goods. So we learned about the Lean concept of reducing waste in terms of inventory, transportation, motion, etc. It...

Don’t Miss the Mark! What Executives Need to Consider When It Comes to Business Planning

In this four-part series, I’m discussing some planning challenges and offering best practices that can help companies improve efficiencies and gain strategic advantage. In my last blog post I discussed “Is the annual process disconnected from the realities of your business?” In Part 2, I will talk about how executives and leadership need to rethink...

Your First Portfolio Review Won’t Go As Planned – Enrich Consulting

It doesn’t matter how much you think you’ve prepared, how many run-throughs you’ve done, how many assurances you have from your project teams that all the data will be there, and be correct. Something will go wrong: a critical piece of data will be missing, the slides will be wrong, an unanswerable question will derail...