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?...

Planview AdaptiveWork recognized by Gartner as a leader in cloud-based IT PPM services for 2nd consecutive year

We are honored and pleased to announce for the second consecutive year, Planview AdaptiveWork has been positioned in the Leaders quadrant in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Based IT Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Services, Worldwide. Ability to Execute, Completeness of Vision The distinction is based on an evaluation of our organization’s completeness of vision...

Creating an Innovation Culture

Is it possible to cultivate an innovation culture? Start-ups have an easier time of building in an innovation machine from day one. But what about established companies?  Not only is it possible, but in many sectors it’s necessary for survival. Disrupt or be disrupted, the saying goes. While there are myriad factors at play, organizations...