Planview and Argo Consulting: Helping Manufacturers Lean In

Unplanned downtime costs industrial manufacturers an estimated $50 billion each year. What does an hour, a week, or a month of downtime cost your business? Adopting Lean principles and tools can greatly improve maintenance processes, which is why Planview and Argo Consulting have partnered together.   As a global operations consultancy, Argo Consulting leads manufacturing firms worldwide through a results-focused process that improves target costs...

Expert Advice on How to Start a Successful Business Transformation

Many, if not all, businesses are undergoing transformations and it’s widely accepted that this type of change is needed to stay relevant and productive. Often times however, it can be daunting for Directors, Heads of Departments and Team Leaders within large organizations to look at the large-scale transformations which their company is going through, and...

How to Build a Business Case

When considering how to build a business case for your project there are many factors to take into account. The most important of these are to: Keep it concise, avoid using too much jargon and make it interesting for your audience Explain the objectives of the plan Demonstrate how your project will bring value to...

Five Signs Your Project Management Tool Isn’t Working for You

The goal of a project management tool should be to see an increase in productivity, greater communication between project managers and clearer communication between employees and clients. If your project management tools are standing in the way of these basic goals, then it may be time for a much-needed upgrade. If you’re thinking it may...

A Compass to Guide Your Project to Product Journey

Why do we need a compass in real life? To make sure we don’t waste time, energy and resources going in the wrong direction, or worse, getting lost and never reaching our destination. What does transitioning from project to product really mean? It’s about IT organizations moving from a temporary view of managing initiatives to...

Agile Metrics: Advancing Continuous Improvement with Agile Program Management

You’re Agile. You have the ceremonies in place, you’ve got planning down – and as you move through each increment you discover the need to tweak processes and implement continuous improvement practices. Effective Agile Program Management means having the right Agile metrics to measure team progress, performance, and overall health. We recently hosted a series...

Lessons in How to Drive Large Scale Digital Transformations

Projects come in all shapes & sizes. Sometimes they are in the form of inbound requests for new marketing material, in the shape of IT implementations, or involve client-specific deliverables. Sometimes these projects are enterprise-wide transformations of processes & systems to support cross-functional initiatives and large portfolios of projects (both internal and customer-focused) along with...

Connecting Business with IT to Achieve Agility in the Financial Sector

5 questions and answers from an on-demand webinar with Santander UK Santander UK, one of the world’s largest retail and commercial banks, has been on an Agile and digital transformation journey for some time. I recently hosted a webinar with Joaquim Cols, Director of Operations for Santander Technology UK, where he described the bank’s progress...

How Project Managers and Marketing Operations Managers Can Work Together

Though there are considerable differences between the roles of project managers and those of marketing operations managers, their worlds are always destined to intertwine when it comes to the field of marketing. So, what are the big distinctions between the two roles and what’s the best way for them to collaborate and benefit each other?...