Work Management for the Virtual Workforce

Across the globe, more and more businesses are rapidly building out their ability to support a virtual workforce with work management solutions. The catalyst for this effort comes from a variety of internal factors, such as when an organization leans on distributed teams as part of their digital transformation or makes remote hires to address talent gaps.   Virtual workforces can also spring up in response to emergencies such as local disasters or out of concern for employee health and wellness, like we have seen this week at Apple, Google, and other large organizations.  ...

Planview Viz Launched, Conquering the Cost of Delay 

At Tasktop, our mission is to help enterprises and governments catalyze the shift from Project to Product, enabling them to innovate, survive and thrive in the Age of Software. Today’s launch of Planview Viz is a big landmark on that journey, allowing us to help many more organizations accelerate their mastery of software at scale...

Costing Agile and Capitalization FAQ, Part II

In the first blog of this series, we took a look at some high-level questions we’ve been asked since announcing our product enhancements to support costing Agile and Agile software capitalization. In this blog, I’m going to dig a bit deeper in the how-to and answer these questions: How do you get from time to...

Beam me up, Agile.

Imagine that your enterprise business is well… ‘The Enterprise’. Yes, that’s right the USS Starship Enterprise — as in ‘Beam me up, Scotty’. And like the Enterprise that we so fondly recall from years gone by, your enterprise is on a journey that will determine if it goes into warp speed or goes down in...

Is Your Innovation Strategy Sustainable?

It’s no surprise that an effective innovation strategy will help your company secure a sustainable advantage over the competition. While an innovation strategy might be easy to define, the strategy alone won’t drive your efforts. To fully realize your vision, you need to have a culture within your organization that embraces innovation. But how do...

Real Users Weigh In: What Defines a Great PPM Solution

Planview has long been a leader in the Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) space, so we (myself and my colleagues from IT Central Station) were excited to be invited to attend their annual Planview Horizons customer conference to hear some customer feedback on the ground at the gorgeous JW Marriot in downtown Austin. My team...

Become an Adaptive PMO: Advance Agility Across Planning and Delivery

What’s the top factor for future success according to nearly 4,000 project managers, PMOs, and executives? The answer may not surprise you: “Organizational agility.” The Project Management Institute (PMI) asked this question for the first time ever for its 2020 Pulse of the Profession® report, knowing that organizations are rewiring to innovate and deliver competitive products...

4 Types of Questions to Expect at Your PM Job Interview

Whether you’re just getting started as a project manager or looking to grow by switching companies, you’re going to have to face the dreaded hiring squad. Even if you’ve been working in a professional setting for years and years, being asked to prove your value in an interview setting can be very intimidating. Of course,...

6 ServiceNow Integration Use Cases to Improve Software Delivery Efficiency 

Our previous blog post on ServiceNow integration focused on the #1 most popular use case — help desk to Agile planning for collaborating on problem resolution. And as ServiceNow continues to expand beyond IT service management to project and portfolio management, Agile development, and enterprise DevOps, additional use cases continue to emerge. These integration patterns utilize...