Your path to business agility
In a recent Rally blog, How to Adopt Rally’s Agile Portfolio Management solution when you already have a PPM tool, I introduced Rally’s recent integration with Planview Enterprise. Now it’s time to tackle connecting portfolio and resource management in an agile environment. I’d like to share with Portfolio Perspectives readers how we decided to strengthen our...
Attending IT events this fall? The ideas are plentiful, but what will you do with them? Learn how to turn conference takeaways into action items. Fall, time for pumpkin spice flavored everything and packing your bags to get to your much anticipated conferences and symposiums of the season. For me, it’s Gartner Symposium/ITxpo taking place...
Earlier this year, Planview sponsored the Resource Management and Capacity Planning Benchmark Study 2013, where more than 280 globally-based product development executives shared their top pain points, business risks, pain causes, software impacts, and process improvements for resource management and capacity planning. In the latest edition of the PDMA Visions Magazine is the article Improve Time...
#2 and #3 Characteristics of Mature Organizations in the Areas of Capacity Planning and Resource Management Last time in part 1, I provided an overview of the six characteristics of mature organizations based on a new research study into the state of capacity planning and resource management as well as detail on the first characteristic...
We were excited to participate in the inaugural PDMA Texas chapter event last week in Dallas. It was an enthusiastic group of business leaders focused on connecting innovation with marketing and product development professionals at Texas-based companies to network, learn, and grow. In addition to talking about the development and growth of the new Texas chapter, we spent...
Critical Capabilities for Professional Services According to the recent paper by the Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA), The State of Professional Services: 2013, recent trends in cloud computing and managed service models are changing what professional services firms are willing to pay and how they are willing to pay for solutions delivered in the cloud,...
When practicing Lean Project Planning with Planview AgilePlace, have you ever created cards on a board and then realized that they belong on a card’s taskboard? Or, conversely, have you ever created cards on a taskboard that really belong on a board? Well, we have good news for you: Now you can move cards in and out of a...
In most companies, the financial component of FP&A has clearly-defined processes and roles. Although the process varies from company to company, each will have regular and repeatable processes by which to accommodate tasks, responsibilities, and deliverables. But what about the other attributes of “FP&A”? Has your organization established a repeatable process and expectation for using...
Make Project Delays and Operating in Crisis Mode a Thing of the Past with These 10 Tips for Better Project Estimates In the recent Resource Management and Capacity Planning Benchmark Study, survey respondents overwhelmingly cited “poor estimation ability” as a leading cause of their project delays; continued crisis mode operation; resources being shifted around haphazardly;...
A Definitive Guide to the State of Long-Range Planning in 2013 Industry experts, practitioners, and Finance leaders have articulated their takeaways from the research in a variety of ways. This compilation of the best-of-the-best indicates an interest from both executives and practitioners as well as represents a practical and philosophical take on the comprehensive research....
