Sleep and Work Productivity: Striking the Right Balance

Sleep is one of the most underappreciated factors necessary for a productive professional life. In fact, plenty of entrepreneurs and politicians even see it as the enemy, cutting into valuable work hours, while in some professions, going sleepless is a badge of honor. Though some might find bravado in refusing to listen to what your...

The #1 ServiceNow Integration Use Case for Enterprise Software Delivery Efficiency

Organizations rely heavily on ServiceNow for their IT operations and software delivery activities. But on its own, a single tool is never enough. ServiceNow integration is a must-have for many of today’s enterprises to integrate tightly with the rest of the software delivery toolchain and to eliminate the manual overhead that may be slowing down cross-functional...

Planview AdaptiveWork and McAfee Partner to Make Securing the Cloud Stress-Free

Every organization, no matter its industry or location, is under constant attack by cyber thieves and hackers. These bad actors are relentless, and a successful attack can result in a data breach that costs an enterprise its trust and reputation and millions of dollars in damages. So it’s no surprise that a recent survey paints...

PI Planning in an Agile Marketing Go-To-Market Team

In mid-2019, I shared some insights into the early stages of Planview’s internal Agile transformations. I discussed how, like our customers, we are experiencing the impact of the changing world of work and are navigating those changes. We are now nine months into the transformation of our Agile marketing go-to-market (GTM) value stream and just...

5 Tools Every Marketing Project Manager Needs

The best marketing project managers will tell you that their success is highly dependent on a few things: good communication, good data, and good tools that make it all possible. With new SaaS startups popping up daily, choosing the best marketing project manager tools can pose a challenge: Which solution is the best fit for...

How the Savvy PMO Does Demand Management

Could your work intake and demand management processes use some sprucing up? Have no fear, the Savvy PMO is here! This blog series is for you whether you are inundated with work requests, need a more streamlined process, require better scoring and prioritization, or have other challenges with demand management. Using a formalized demand management...

Costing Agile and Capitalization FAQ, Part I

Just a few short months ago, at the Global SAFe Summit in October, we announced the release of a new product capability that enables Planview customers to automatically cost Agile teamwork and subsequently better capitalize Agile software development efforts. What does this mean, you might ask? Well, our solution uses the powerful combination of Planview...

The Top 6 Jira Integration Use Cases

As a platform for helping development teams to plan, track, and release software, it’s no wonder that Jira is such a popular Agile Planning tool in the software delivery toolchain today. But if you’re part of a large and complex organization, Jira probably isn’t the only tool you’re using to plan, build and deliver software...

How to Know When It’s Time to Change—And When It’s Not

Changing Times Whether it’s time to paint your living room or restructure your company, knowing when to make a change is not always obvious. But one thing is for certain: It’s never easy. Consider the widening debate over what to do about daylight savings. When the clock jumps forward in the spring, we sorely miss...

Project Planning and Delivery: 6 Steps to Get Work Done Faster

Your customers and team members depend on your project planning acumen to provide work of value—whether that’s a well-attended conference, a timely cybersecurity patch or a benefits package that attracts top personnel. Though planning is essential, what matters most to the customer is getting that promised value faster. In other words, project planning and project...