Your path to business agility
At first glance, the differences between marketing and project management might seem too great for them to be able to gel together effectively. Marketing is supposed to be innovative, inspiring and full of outside-of-the-box thinking, while project management is all about making sure things get done and then writing reports about what got done. However,...
Marketing and project management might not seem like natural bosom buddies, one priding itself on its ability to be creative, innovative and to do things outside the norm, while the other tries to systematize, analyze and generally keep everything as regular as possible. However, with the growth of Agile methodologies and project management tools that...
Not only can implementing a new project management methodology vastly improve an organization’s efficiency, but it can also increase their capabilities. The trick, of course, is choosing the methodology which is most likely to fit the organization’s culture and business needs. If you’d like to get up to speed on common enterprise project management methodology,...
There is a myth in planning circles that more detail is better and more accurate. In resource planning this looks like huge spreadsheets with people’s names assigned to specific projects across the months or weeks for at least a year. If we can plan out that much detail that far, it must be accurate, right?...
Tasktop’s latest product release from its Value Stream Management platform—Planview Hub 20.4—is out today, making end-to-end enterprise toolchain integration even easier and impactful. New exciting features include: Artifact unions Test Management use case between Micro Focus ALM and ALM Octane Configuration history New connector for Daimler/Mercedes-Benz AG’s new defect and test management system Introducing Artifact Unions Have...
This time last year, in November 2019, and a year after the official publication of Project to Product, the best-selling book by Tasktop founder & CEO, Dr. Mik Kersten, internal conversations began within Tasktop about launching a new podcast featuring Mik and industry leaders. With no one on the marketing team with previous podcast experience...
As the expectation of constant collaboration between the IT and business branches of companies becomes more standard, the importance of clear, consistent communication between the two is paramount. This communication is generally achieved through the use of agile methodology and business agile software. However, as the UK puts more and more money into agile project...
There are many things that adaptable businesses can learn from elite agile software teams — and we aren’t talking about where to find the widest selection of coffee mugs and t-shirts with amusing sayings (e.g. “Have you tried turning it off and on again?”). We’re talking about five best practices that define and drive high-performance:...
Arguably the most important — but unfortunately, also perhaps the least understood — thing about agile is that it’s not a methodology. Rather, at its essence agile is a mindset that doesn’t just change what teams do, when they do it, or how they do it, but it reframes why they do it. Or at...
Ninety percent of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone, at 2.5 quintillion bytes of data a day!” This now famous statement comes from an IBM Marketing Cloud paper written in 2016. While the numbers within the quote are inherently obsolete, the quote itself is used time...
