Your path to business agility
Application Portfolio Management (APM) is a process used to attempt to capture application performance and spending over time. Recently, Gartner published a report stating that “Fewer than 10% of Global 2000 organizations understand the full costs of their applications.” ¹ Why are so many organizations failing to do this right? I believe these organizations are...
40% to 75% of New Products Fail — How to Improve Your Odds of Winning! Innovation and new product development are risky. 40% to 75% of new products fail. This is not because people make dumb decisions; it’s the nature of things when you face an uncertain future. Think about it. If you could consistently produce...
As citizens and taxpayers, I’m sure we all like to see our governments working to become more efficient and effective. And here at Planview AgilePlace, we’re obviously pretty bought-in to the idea that applying Lean-Agile to an organization’s operations can bring dramatic productivity improvements. So, we’ve been excited this past year to see strong signs that people...
Will the real efficient frontier please stand up? Each year, we attend many conferences focused on the themes of new product development, innovation, and portfolio management. One of my biggest pet peeves at these conferences arises when speakers discussing project prioritization present a scatter chart with individual projects cumulatively plotted in descending order of bang-for-the-buck...
Some of the best project managers seem to have an uncanny sense of what needs to be completed by whom. If you sit in a meeting with these types, they instantly recall what activities those in the room are performing, what questions need answering, and what next steps are required. Whether interacting with individuals or...
By: Joerg Koehler, Director of Marketing at Innotas According to a recent report from PM Solutions (The State of the PMO 2012), the sheer number of PMOs and their power within an organization has risen dramatically since 2000. 87% of all surveyed companies and organizations (large and small) have a PMO in place in 2012....
By: Tim Madewell, SVP Services at Innotas We’ve received a bunch of questions about our JIRA integration in response to our recent partnership announcement and our webinar with Kyle Miller from JIRA/Atlassian. Question #1: In the integration, where is request management handled? If you’re getting requests from both JIRA and Innotas, where are they managed?...
I had the opportunity to interview Madison Laird, Executive in Residence at Planview, about some of the findings and nuggets from the State of Capital Planning Study. Madison shared some of his thoughts about portfolio management and long range financial planning which have been shaped by his career at companies like Cisco, Marimba and IBM....
Introduction by Planview AgilePlace COO Jon Terry We know — we geek out a lot about people using us for construction, or manufacturing, or logistics, or auto repair, or talent management or whatever. Our business at Planview AgilePlace really has spread quite a bit beyond our software development management roots by now. But, we still recognize that our...
Planview just finished our 2012 Product Expo introducing Planview Enterprise 10.4 – and we did it virtually. Here’s what we have found to be great about a virtual product launch event: We are able to get more customers and prospects to attend at a global level. They can participate from their office – all they...
