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Product Development Challenges, Solutions and the Social Media Peeps You Need to Follow As a follow up to the Wire article, The Portfolio Management Mavens Participate in PIPELINE 2013 and the PIPELINE 2013 Mini Conference on June 19th, Pamela Soin interviews Carrie Nauyalis about the challenges facing product executives and discuss the synergy between Kalypso’s...
If you’re a Game of Thrones fan, you’ll appreciate the analogy of how PMOs can feel like they are constantly trying to protect their kingdoms when it comes to expanding the scope of portfolio management into the organization. Check out the 4 Dragons (trends) for portfolio management that will help you fire up and defend...
It’s the height of summer and a good time to share a list of product development and innovation resources for professionals. 7 Tips to Speed Time to Innovation [Article] Jim Brown, founder and president of Tech-Clarity, provides insights on the goals organizations need to work toward to improve product development performance and sheds light on...
The last week in June, I got to be a part of a thrilling trifecta; all within 24 hours: I got to network with and learn from brilliant innovators (yah, you know who you are!); I visited, on-site with one of my favorite customers (WMS Gaming — their campus is stunning!); And, I was in...
It seems almost a universal truth that resource allocation exercises use prioritization at some point in the process. Nearly every company we’ve spoken to or heard from over the past decade-and-a-half, in Pharma or other industries, relies on it. Project prioritization has several things going for it: Mathematical simplicity: It’s very hard to quibble with...
For all project-based services organizations, having good visibility and control over resources is important if they are to operate effectively and maximize the revenue they can drive from their people. The recent Professional Services View of the Resource Management and Capacity Planning Benchmark Study highlights that this is an area where many of these organizations...
The Product Portfolio Mavens Pamela Soin, senior manager at Kalypso, and Carrie Nauyalis, new product development solution evangelist at Planview, have returned, but this time at the conference for innovative product development, PIPELINE 2013 Virtual Mini Conference. On June 19, 2013, these two product development pros will be available to chat about the latest trends,...
There’s a nice blog post by statistician Jeff Leek on how more and more non-statisticians are finding themselves in roles that involve data analysis and visualization. Data are becoming more and more available, and less and less expensive to collect, and the tools for analyzing that data, from Excel to SAS to Spotfire, are becoming...
My favorite part of wrapping up a research project is sharing the study’s findings and helping the audience put them to practical use. As the lead researcher in the latest benchmark study, I’ve analyzed two spicy topics facing most product development organizations: capacity planning and resource management. Learn from The Resource Management and Capacity Planning Maturity...
We’ve spent the last decade watching the shifts and trends in an industry that is eating the world. Software is increasingly becoming the basis for competitive advantage in nearly every industry. As Tasktop has evolved from an organization that focused solely on the developer to an organization that is now focused on the end-to-end aspects...
