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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Micromanagement can be a common condition among all managers arising from personal stress with the results of a project, uncertainty about a team’s capabilities, a desire to prove “who’s the boss” or any number of other reasons. However, micromanagement is very inefficient, as it decreases the team’s confidence in their own abilities and takes the...
This blog series is part of our quest to help you enhance your resource planning, no matter where you are on the resource management and planning capacity curve. In part one of this blog series, we covered the first two guidelines, which are all about your people: Focus on your key resources first Assign and...
Projects in business today can be very challenging endeavors for a project manager, not least of which is ensuring that all stakeholders are kept in perfect alignment and on the same page. Good communication stands as the foundation of the project, holding this complex system upright and solid. To that end, making sure that everyone...
The allure of the project to product movement is that it offers real hope to global enterprises that they can master software delivery at scale and compete with the tech giants. According to Gartner, 55% of organizations surveyed are looking to move to a product-centric mentality. At the same time, there’s no escaping the fact...
Remote workers can add skills and flexibility to any business, but managing them and integrating them successfully into a team can present many challenges. So, are they worth it? We take a look at the pros and cons. Pros of Remote Workers Access to greater skill sets With technology making distances and borders obsolete, organizations...
