Your path to business agility
Does your PMO provide the project visibility and insights required to help the organization deliver on strategy? For some PMOs, project visibility is limited to just project status. This two-part blog series outlines how to design our own set of reports, analytics, dashboards, and KPIs to elevate visibility and provide the strategic insights your multiple...
One of the strongest qualities of a project manager is the fact that they know how to get things done, while one of the best qualities of a good leader is the fact that they know how to get people to do things. When it comes to project management and leadership it all comes down...
Effective marketing, without question, is a collaborative effort. To be successful, your campaign must be a 360-degree strategy incorporating research, graphics, copy, user experience, analytics, and more. Because each of these functions requires a very different kind of brain, an effective marketing team generally has several people involved in any given project. So if you’re...
Each year, AgileSherpas surveys hundreds of marketers about the ins and outs of their agility (or lack thereof). This year, the collected data about Agile in marketing is compiled into the 3rd Annual State of Agile Marketing Report. In previous editions of the report (you can find the 2019 edition here and 2018 edition here),...
If you want to continuously increase the business value of your software portfolio, you need to focus on measuring the end-to-end flow of work across your software delivery value streams. As I highlighted last week, there are three key roadblocks to clear in order to identify where work is waiting and where your bottlenecks are: Data...
Planview named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Agile Planning Tools At Planview we know that all organizations pursue the path to becoming a Lean-Agile enterprise differently. We understand this path because we’ve traveled it ourselves. For the past 30 years, Planview was focused on the world of portfolio management. But several years...
There’s an application for everything these days, and in fact Enterprises have so many systems and tools installed that this environment has spawned a whole new marketplace for Application Integration Platforms. Companies like Zapier, Workato, Jitterbit, MuleSoft and Informatica (just to name a few) have stepped in and offer a way for organizations to easily...
With remote work on the rise, choosing the right online project management software is more important than ever. In the past, remote and distributed work was largely associated with IT and software development. These days, teams across all industries are collaborating remotely. A staggering 73% of employers are expected to have remote workers on their team by 2028. With the demand for remote...
This article was produced and published by CIOReview and is featured in its April 2020 print edition. It was also published on their website here.
Many people associate procrastination with laziness. There’s a misconception that procrastinators are inherently less driven or ambitious than others, because they can’t seem to sit down and get done what they need to get done. The truth is procrastination has many causes that far exceed laziness. One of the greatest time management tips for work...
