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Project managers have their work cut out for them. With so many projects happening at once, it can be difficult to focus on what’s important and coordinate the various resources needed to keep each project moving forward seamlessly. When they’re lacking visibility into each project, it’s common for managers to prioritize projects that don’t deliver...
Over the last six months, there has been a buzz building in IT circles about bimodal IT. Creeping onto the agenda of Gartner events, trade conferences and boardroom catch-ups, we’ve even started to hear the phrase on the lips of Changepoint customers.
In a large organization, project teams operate in smaller silos that involve a segment of the company. But with so many moving parts in an enterprise, it’s easy for these teams to lose sight of how they factor into the larger business strategy.
Here’s what a meeting should be: a productive session where team members get together to share ideas and solve problems, culminating in decisions being made and action items being assigned. Here’s what more and more meetings are starting to look like: Only a few team members show up on time, a few ask if they...
As we’ve covered before, project management and product management are two different things. Yet sometimes their duties overlap – the development of a new product may well mirror the processes that go into completing any other kind of “project.” Digging into those overlaps can teach us a lot about each field. Today, we’re talking about...
A shared services mandate challenged a major university to merge three central IT organizations into one. To meet service delivery goals, they had to redefine and implement their IT operations and internal processes. In addition, they needed more than 800 employees to adopt them! Working with IT, the PMO started with demand management and has...
Even if it is only a conversation, in the new decade, your organization is likely on the path to Agile maturity. From enabling customer value delivery at speed to empowering organizations to adapt to changes in the marketplace with strategic insight and visibility, Lean-Agile practices offer significant value for modern organizations. Implementing these practices, however,...
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...
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...
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...
