Your path to business agility
Last week at the RallyOn annual user conference I presented Unlocking Business Agility in Multi-Methodology Environments, describing the challenges faced by organizations that rely on a mix of traditional and agile execution, and how Planview’s partnership with Rally can help with those challenges. On my plane ride to DC, I imagined the response to this...
Find out why I, co-author of The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win and The DevOps Cookbook, recommend Kanban to improve the practice of IT. I discuss how to solve common IT problems — including developer due date performance, availability, security and compliance — using DevOps patterns of work. Kanban boards appear prominently throughout the The Phoenix Project as...
Time Tracking or time sheets have significant benefits for organizations, but getting your team on board can be challenging. It is clear why organizations want to utilize time tracking – increased visibility, accountability, optimizing resources, and charging back departments. However, chances are your employees do not see it that way. They most likely see time...
Please note that Drill-Through relationships have now been renamed as Connections in Planview AgilePlace. Connections establish parent-child relationships between Planview AgilePlace Boards. These multi-level hierarchies help you track and structure your work to the right level of detail, making it easier to not only visualize high-level initiatives but also dig deeper into the implementation details. Here’s what to look for in the...
Kanban and continuous delivery are technical practices that go hand in hand. The goal of continuous delivery is to rapidly, reliably and repeatedly deliver new features and bug fixes at low risk and with minimal overhead. The goal of Kanban is to optimize the flow of work through incremental change. Both approaches share the common objective of delivering...
In Planview AgilePlace, connections help you track and manage the execution of company initiatives by providing the right level of visibility to the right people. This allows you to visualize your plans at a high level and dig deeper into the implementation details as needed. Learn how to set up and use connections at the...
PPM for Professional Services Organizations is Used to Manage 1,700 Billable Resources and Support New Business Evolution The transition toward meeting the client expectation of deliverable-based billing – as opposed to the more typical, billing by time and materials – is a common issue within professional services. Within a wide array of industries, whether as...
Last week, Tasktop had a wonderful week at IBM Innovate in Orlando. We were honored by the conference organizers who invited us to present, or co-present, in eight sessions. We were delighted to win the IBM Business Partner award for Innovation in IT Development . We’re especially proud that this was the second year in...
In a recent Wired Innovation Insights article, Planview’s CEO Greg Gilmore shares Planview’s transformation from a “traditional” on-premise software company to software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivered in the cloud. He discusses the fact that this type of business change is not only affected by technology or the product, but instead touches every aspect of the business. Learn...
As a practice leader at Mindjet, I get to see the many creative, thoughtful ways in which clients apply their practice of collaborative innovation with their stakeholders. Here, I share with you a compelling scenario on which I engaged a client. You may find their approach useful as a way to extend your own practice...
