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An Excerpt from “New Insights for Driving Innovation in Product Development” Webcast This is part two of my three-part series on a recent Planview hosted webcast titled “New Insights for Driving Innovation in Product Development: Is Your Organization a Lean, Mean, Innovating Machine?” featuring Sanjeev Pal, Research Manager of Product, Project and Portfolio Management Solutions...
One of history’s greatest creative geniuses, Steve Jobs, passed away on October 5 2011. He was a legend already while alive. Jobs showed us that repetitive disruptive innovation was indeed possible and he built on that continuously during the last years to make Apple one of the world’s most successful companies it is today. How...
In Eclipse 3.6 we worked with the Microsoft interoperability team to bring some major improvements for Microsoft Windows users, such as Jump Lists, taskbar progress indicator and taskbar overlay text and images. As part of Tasktop’s ongoing partnership with Microsoft, we’ve been working hard to bring you two more improvements this year: Desktop Search, and...
In order to optimize the allocation of an organization’s budgets and resources, IT decision makers should embrace application portfolio management (APM). IT executives often realize the benefits of having a well-established project and resource management processes while proper application portfolio management ends up not getting sufficient attention. However, having access to a full application inventory...
An Excerpt from “New Insights for Driving Innovation in Product Development” Webcast Planview recently hosted a Webcast titled “New Insights for Driving Innovation in Product Development: Is Your Organization a Lean, Mean, Innovating Machine?” featuring Sanjeev Pal, Research Manager of Product, Project and Portfolio Management Solutions at IDC, and me. Here is the first of...
In my last post, I commented on Gartner’s points about the evolving role of the EPMO. Now, I’ll talk about another of their key points — that communication is key to PMO success, and that when communicating to executives, “it’s more important to be interesting than complete.”
The use of dashboards has been spreading throughout organizations. From tracking manufacturing performance to the latest sales numbers, dashboards aim to provide a quick, comprehensive snapshot of how well an organization, business unit, or project is performing. As R&D Portfolio Management processes mature within organizations, they evolve from once-a-year budgeting activities to evergreen processes that...
In an era of increasing IT complexity, it’s hard to imagine new PPM solutions running in a standalone mode. In today’s agile business environment, project managers should have access to the most current data about resources and finances in order to successfully manage existing projects and keep generating revenue. Properly allocating labor, tracking time, and...
For those of you with passion for the world of technology, today is without question a very sad day. Whether you are an Apple disciple (like myself), or someone with just a passion for technology, we all lost an inspirational figure in our industry and a remarkable human being. Of course the power of Steve...
In his July 2009 TED talk, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Dan Pink talks about intrinsic motivation: “The three most vital components of a successful project: autonomy, mastery and meaning”. Do go ahead and listen to the seventeen minute presentation, it’s well worth it. Then, read on. I would argue that...
