Top 5 Trends for Product Development Companies

Not a day goes by in which I am not asked: Carrie, what do you see as the coming trends for product development companies? (Well, maybe a day or two passes without the question — but with my travel schedule, I can be awfully hard track down.) Given that, I thought I’d share with you...

The Difference Between Product Portfolio Management and Product Lifecycle Management

On the global manufacturing stage, companies are innovating and bringing more products to market faster with the aid of two types of software: Product Portfolio Management (PPM) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Both solutions are designed to provide intelligence and insights to ensure the timely and on-budget delivery of high-quality and competitive products. Often, the...

Careful! We Have Hot Keys

Now, on the options tab, you can enable Hot Keys to make commonly used actions even easier: Try Planview AgilePlace Kanban Free for 30 days! Once Hot Keys are enabled, you can use them any time you are viewing an online kanban board: to add new cards, search for cards, or view the backlog and archive. Keep...

Interview on ALM getting a bad name, how Agile and open source are changing that

Here is a short interview from The Server Side conference, with Jan Stafford of Software Quality Insights, on how ALM got a bad name from heavyweight methodologies like RUP, and why the move to Agile, open source and developer-centric tools is changing that. Yes, I am in fact holding an invisible crystal ball, which is...

Back to Beantown: Lobster Rolls & Medical Devices!

I had the privilege of participating in the 2nd Annual Medical Devices Summit earlier this month in Boston. Not knowing what to expect from the event, I was pleased to be going back to Boston, the cradle of American civilization. After making my way to Quincy Market, I set my sights on a fresh lobster...

ProjectPlace – the Mac release and more

Tomorrow we have a release that will bring a lot of positive news for our users, especially our Mac users. This is what we plan to release… Document Manager for Mac Public Beta The internal and private beta has been successful. So now we are inviting the whole world, or at least all interested users,...

Integrating Mylyn into your Git workflow

In January, most of the EGit committers met at the “EGit Summit” in Walldorf, Germany. We had a blast hanging out together, planning the future direction for EGit/JGit, and implementing new features. Thanks again to the SAP team for hosting the event. As you can see on the whiteboard, there were numerous ideas suggested by...

Prediction #4: The single vendor ALM stack becomes extinct in organizations with more than two developers

Development managers at large organizations with monolithic application lifecycle management (ALM) stacks once had it good. ALM components were well integrated, played nicely with one another, and when they didn’t, there was someone to call. But lightweight issue trackers started to move into the organization, popularized by the need for developer-centric collaboration facilities. At a...

How Does Your Product Organization Compare?

Interested in understanding what more than 900 product development professionals had to say in the 2nd Annual Product Portfolio Management Benchmark Survey and how your organization compares? Join me, Carrie Nauyalis of Planview, as I present for the Georgia Chapter of PDMA‘s event, Bagels and Brains on February 15th. I will explore key trends and...