Your path to business agility
Contributors: Jon Terry, Siraj Sirajuddin, Susan Gibson As organizations try to accommodate a fully virtual workforce, we were asked by our customers, How do I do virtual or remote PI Planning now? We know our customers aren’t the only ones asking this question, and in fact, they’re not; we are, too. We do PI Planning...
At the core of any successful business is collaboration. Brainstorming sessions, working together towards a common goal, weekly happy hours… They all play an important role in innovating new ideas and then carrying them out effectively. In fact, Steve Jobs famously said, “Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions. You run into someone, you...
“If you measure anything, measure wait time.” Dominica DeGrandis, Making Work Visible When it comes to improving the end-to-end flow of business value across your software delivery organization, one of the first places to start is identifying your wait states. By pinpointing where waste and wait time are holding up your value delivery, you can...
Many Marketing Departments and smaller functional groups are in the process of optimizing their processes for remote working. They are in an introspective mode, assessing how they can continue being productive and stay connected without a HQ Office, conference rooms, or break room. The transition to a more remote workforce is not a new concept,...
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...
