Your path to business agility
“One big new “A-ha!” is the emergence of new roles in enterprises transitioning from project to product. Roles with skills that optimize product value streams, such as the Value Stream Architect.“ With DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 returning next week (The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, October 28-30), Tasktop (Booth 403) plans to make our biggest splash yet. Last year,...
This blog is part of a series on Lean Portfolio Management (LPM). If you haven’t already, we recommend reading parts one through three first, which you can find here: Part 1: What is Lean Portfolio Management? Part 2: Lean Portfolio Management: Lean Budgets and Investment Funding Part 3: Lean Portfolio Management Operations: An Agile Approach...
Business built on agile foundations is fuelled by change from the bottom up, with teams on the frontline spotting opportunities as they arise and getting the executive buy-in to take advantage of them. This is especially true for modern organizations, where technology can change in a flash, and it’s up to those with their fingers...
Dr. Emmett Brown: Marty! I need you to go back with me! Marty McFly: Where? Dr. Emmett Brown: Back to the Future! Great Scott! In the epic 1985 film ‘Back to the Future’, Doc Brown avoids being gunned down by angry terrorists because someone from the future had a different plan in store. By defining the...
“Don’t just talk about the project to product transition ad nauseam. Pick a forward-thinking part of your organization and literally just start “doing product” – with intention, but not perfection.“ With DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019 returning next week (The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas, October 28-30), Tasktop (Booth 403) plans to make our biggest splash yet. Last year,...
Some myths in life are harmless, or even pleasant and helpful. For example, many parents lean heavily on Santa Claus to keep their kids from doing things that would get them on the dreaded “Naughty List.” And the Tooth Fairy comes in very handy when it comes to convincing a child that a loose tooth...
Marketing in the Age of Agile has become an interconnected, data-driven and cross-collaborational environment that would be wholly unrecognizable to either the real or fictional founders of the profession. That doesn’t mean, however, that it has lost any of the swagger that made it such a cool club during its golden age, except now its...
For some, October is leaves changing color, pumpkins being carved and bidding farewell to daylight in the afternoon. For us, it’s all about participating in one of our favorite events of the year — DevOps Enterprise Summit 2019. And we could not be more excited to get lost in the neon lights once more. With...
Planning a risk response strategy that is flexible enough to address the major issues that may face your project is essential for ensuring that you are prepared for whatever may arise during the project’s course. Like so many elements of project management, the key to high-quality risk assessment and creating an effective response strategy lies...
We recently had our annual Planview Horizons Customer Conference here in Austin, which is always an inspirational (albeit exhausting) week, and this year was no different. In many ways this year’s conference was one the most rewarding in my history at Planview. Business transformation is topical to every organization these days, and this year the...
