New Product Release: Planview Hub 20.4 – Artifact Unions, Micro Focus/Octane Use Case, Configuration History, Daimler AG Connector

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...

The UK Wastes Billions Every Year on Failed Agile Products

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...

5 Best Practices that Adaptable Businesses Can Learn from Elite Agile Software Teams

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:...

How to Gain Deeper Insight from Project Data

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...

451 Research Perspectives on Agile Program Management [Video]

We recently sat down with Chris Marsh, Principal Research Analyst for the Workforce Productivity and Collaboration practice at 451 Research, to discuss the fundamentals of Agile Program Management. Chris answered four of the questions that we receive most often about Agile Program Management, articulating its meaning and value in a clear and concise way. Watch...

6 Things to Look for in an Agile Program Management Solution

By now, I hope you’re well acquainted with our four-part Agile Program Management discussion and demo series. And, especially, my supporting blog series where I’ve shared highlights from each discussion to offer ways to help improve your approach to scaling Agile. This blog is dedicated to Part 4: Agile Program Management – Eating the Cake,...

How IT Can Get Its Dream Makeover with Value Stream Management

Here at Tasktop, we’ve had plenty of interesting conversations with enterprises about whether they should delay adoption of a value stream management (VSM) platform until they’ve had a chance to “clean up their mess”.  Beneath the question lies a fear — always legitimate, but especially so in a year of economic distress and highly constrained...

5 Online Project Management Trends for 2021

Once the global COVID-19 pandemic hit, many collocated organizations were forced to make the jump to remote work and online project management. This had a profound impact on the labor market, with project managers and teams having a greater responsibility to collaborate and keep an open line of communication.   Will companies return to their “normal” working environments once the pandemic is behind us? It’s...