Are You Trying to Do Too Much in One Sprint?

One of the most important elements of the Scrum methodology is the “sprint.” This is a pre-defined amount of time, usually between one and four weeks, within which a certain number of tasks connected to a project are set to be completed. The sprint kicks off with a sprint planning session on Day One, where...

Empowering Teams by Fostering Critical Thinking Skills

Decentralized leadership offers a lot of benefits, such as increased decision velocity, faster reaction times and more targeted actions and projects. Empowering teams to take greater control of their direction and decision making requires greater critical thinking in the workplace. Unfortunately, however, according to a major survey of over 60,000 managers, it is precisely critical...

Turning Software Delivery Data into IT and Business Intelligence

Turning software delivery data into IT and business intelligence is nothing new; it’s the 21st-century gold rush. Yet getting to this level of maturity is a herculean undertaking, especially for IT organizations looking to obtain accurate cross-tool reporting that provides them with business-critical insights into their software delivery. For many, obtaining the one source of...

SAFe® 5.0 Available Now

The latest version of Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®) 5.0 expands the framework beyond business operations to embrace business agility. “Business agility happens when the entire organization – business and tech leaders, compliance, development, finance, legal, marketing, operations, sales, security, support – uses Lean and Agile practices to continually and proactively deliver innovative business solutions faster...

How Businesses are Addressing the Skills Gap

Lower unemployment is a basic economic goal for any nation, but it also has an unexpected downside that can make an economy a victim of its own success. That is, the better it does, the fewer people there are to fill necessary jobs to maintain productivity. This skills gap is something the US is currently...

What the 2019 Election Results Mean for UK Businesses

The UK election this past December 12 delivered a resounding victory for the Conservative Party, who won 364 seats out of 650. This has handed Prime Minister Boris Johnson a huge majority to push forward his legislative agenda, with wide-ranging effects in store for both the UK economy and its society in general. In a...

Moving from Project to Product with Flow Metrics – What Are They and Why Should You Care?

The emergence of Flow Metrics, presented in Dr. Mik Kersten’s the Flow Framework™, arrives at a crucial time. While the need to deliver more value from software is well-documented, there has been no real form of measurement that can tell organizations if their transformational efforts are working — until now.  The Flow Metrics—Velocity, Efficiency, Time...

UK Business Schools Attracting Foreign Talent

Brexit has had a massive impact on nearly all parts of the UK’s economy and society since its decision to leave the world’s largest trading bloc, the EU, in 2016. There is at least one sector, however, where it seems to be having little impact: the country’s business schools. In fact, according to recent figures...

Enterprise Agility in Financial Services

We facilitated a roundtable discussion of our customers at the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference where enterprise agility in financial services organizations was discussed. We learned more about some of the biggest struggles financial institutions face with a focus on capacity planning, funding models, and digital transformation. The topic discussed for most of the roundtable...