What is Innovation Strategy?

An innovation strategy is a common innovation mission and a detailed plan that aims to create new value, for which customers are willing to pay. It includes a set of policies or behaviors geared toward achieving future organizational growth. The most innovative businesses understand that big, new ideas don’t just happen. Instead, innovations arise out...

Enhancing ITIL Incident Management and the Customer Experience: Integrating ServiceNow with Atlassian Jira and Microsoft Azure DevOps

Delivering a premium digital experience is more than just clever features and functionality: it’s about maximizing uptime for end users. Our ongoing work with a Fortune 500 healthcare company illustrates just how important a seamless incident management process is to ensure product stability, and customer and employee happiness. Tasktop integrated the organization’s ITSM tool—ServiceNow—to its...

4 project management metrics you must define & track

As new technological tools enable organizations to collect and process more information than ever before, measurement and data analysis has become a major focus in nearly every industry. Project management is no exception—today’s enterprise project managers are expected to identify, monitor and report on a variety of metrics for every project. With so much data...

Project Workflows and How They Can Help Your Project

Depending on the field you are in, there can be many different types of workflows which will be more or less applicable in various situations. At the end of the day however, they all boil down to basically the same thing, workflows are processes of sequential steps or events which see tasks completed and responsibility...

Key Project Management Skills That Every Business Owner Needs

In many cases, project management and getting a business off the ground go hand-in-hand. Even in instances where your business is already up and running, business owners can learn a skill or two from project managers. From communication skills to negotiation skills, here are a few key project management skills that every business owner can...

A project management career: Is it right for you?

You’ve dealt with them for years in your current role, you’ve watched what they do, and you’ve thought to yourself that project managers seem to have it pretty good. They have a prominent role in most organizations, they earn a healthy share of the credit when a project goes well. What could be better? To...

Planview AdaptiveWork Ranked a Leader in G2’s Winter 2021 Grid® for PPM Software

G2’s Winter 2021 Grid Report for PPM Vendors & What It Means We are delighted to announce that Planview AdaptiveWork has been ranked as a “Leader” in G2’s Winter 2021 Enterprise Grid® for Project and Portfolio Management Software. Click Here to View the Enterprise Grid “Leaders” represent products that receive the highest aggregate Satisfaction and...

3 Things 2020 Taught Us About Managing Change

2020 has been a year like no other. Organizations worldwide and in every industry made things happen practically overnight that would otherwise take years (if they were possible at all). So, after a year that saw more change than ever before, we thought we’d recap some of the most important lessons 2020 has taught us...

Podcast: Three Agile Experts Discuss Agile Marketing

What does it take to expand Agile practices into business teams like marketing?  That’s the question that host Tim Shisler asked a panel of Agile experts in a recent series on the SAFe Business Agility Podcast. Our own EVP and Chief Marketing Officer Cameron van Orman joined author Jim Ewel and Melissa Reeve, VP of...

In-House Project Managers vs. External: Pros and Cons

Though there is something to be said about the ability to wear multiple hats in the workplace, some things are really best left to the experts. This is the logic behind the outsourcing of all kinds of work, from digital marketing to – yes – project management. But sometimes it’s hard to identify exactly which...