New Product Release: What’s New in Planview Hub 20.2

Tasktop’s latest product release—Planview Hub 20.2—is out today to make toolchain integration even easier and powerful, enabling large-scale organizations to accelerate the flow of work and business value across their software portfolio. Key highlights include: More control over operational processes using Conditional Field Flow Conflict resolution at the field-level Enhanced support for Micro Focus ALM...

What Excel is Good For – And What It’s Not

Most businesses today care about efficiency. Not just because of all the things a company can achieve when you work smarter, but because of all the time that opens up for you to spend on family, friends, hobbies, travel, and a full and rich life outside of work. One of the biggest productivity obstacles that...

How to Streamline Your Web Design Projects

As with any project, it’s ideal to keep your web design work as efficient as possible. The less time and revision you put into a given project, the more profitable it is. Since the primary goal of most companies is to increase revenue, web design project efficiency should be at the core of your processes....

The Heartbeat of Scaling Agile: Planview Agile Program Management Bundles

It’s no secret, Planview has been in the project portfolio management game for nearly 30 years. We know project portfolio management – the different flavors and maturity models of how portfolios evolve over time. What you might be surprised to discover is our knowledge and expertise in scaling Agile. I’d like to take a little...

Dynamic Planning: Refocus, Reprioritize, and Reallocate Rapidly

Urgency to switch to digital business is just one way organizations are responding to current disruptions, highlighting the need for dynamic planning. After a virtual meeting with 40 CEOs recently, Fortune CEO Alan Murray wrote: “Companies that previously had been slow to adopt to digital transformation now find themselves on a ‘burning platform.’” As executives...

Focus on Portfolio, not Projects, in PPM

Portfolio managers play a vital role within organizations, yet there are some myths around the role and its intrinsic value. The value of portfolio managers is often misunderstood and understated — often as a result of too much emphasis being placed on projects and execution, rather than portfolios as a whole and how they drive...

How WIP Limits Can Rescue Troubled Agile Teams

In theory, agile is an approach and mindset that helps teams respond more effectively to change, and exploit (rather than avoid) continuous feedback loops to deliver products faster, better, cheaper, and with greater customer satisfaction. What’s not to love about this? Yet in practice, many agile teams are struggling rather than thriving — and more...

3 Pages Marketers Should Take from the Business Agile Playbook

From Brexit to the novel coronavirus, there’s no end to the chaos that continually throws economies for a loop. It’s worth wondering what’s actually within business leaders’ power to help their organizations stay the course. While politics and pandemics highlight a lot of what’s not in our control, they also present opportunities for transformation and...

How Agile Teams Can Master the Art of Saying NO

Legendary investor Warren Buffet has said that the core habit that separates successful people from very successful people, is that the latter say no to almost everything. Evidently, very successful agile marketing teams are borrowing from Mr. Buffet’s playbook, because compared to their counterparts, they’re supremely talented in the art of saying no. What makes...