Want to Unify Your Team? Communicate Your Mission

You might have heard the story before. It was 1962, and President John F. Kennedy was visiting NASA headquarters in Washington D.C. for the first time. While touring the grounds, he spotted a janitor carrying a broom. The president stopped, walked over, and asked what the man did at NASA. “I’m helping put a man...

Is there a plumber in the house? 4 ways to reduce the impact of resource skill scarcity

If you have any experience maintaining an agile team, then you know that being agile is more than just about having stand ups, Kanban board iteratives, and sprint-based deliveries. If your organization isn’t able to ensure that you have all the resources you need to succeed, you’ll quickly find yourself behind schedule at best, and...

Knowledge is power – how your QA/test teams can help you accelerate your value delivery 

As the digital demands of the business continue to escalate, software delivery teams are under extraordinary pressure to deliver more work faster. Speed, however, counts for little if these teams are not delivering a high-quality product of value; rapid turnaround for a customer request is futile if the feature doesn’t work properly or meet their...

A New Chapter for Planview

I am so excited to share with you today the new visual identity for Planview! Since 1989, Planview has been on the forefront of providing award-winning enterprise solutions for managing work and resources. Now, we are entering our next chapter as the premier platform for enabling every organization to seamlessly transform strategy to delivery in...

How the UK Views the Legal Status of Cryptocurrency

As cryptocurrency has taken the world by storm and launched a major debate about whether it could actually shake up how finance and currency work, one field which has lagged sorely behind its pace of change is cryptocurrency law. In many fields of innovation, tight regulation early on might be seen as constricting and having...

To hybrid, or not to hybrid, that is the question

“Change is the law of life. Those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” — John F. Kennedy, 1963. Change is hard on everyone. Even the more adaptable among us have a hard time changing the way they do their things. And that goes double for change in the...

How to Switch from Physical to Online Kanban Boards

There are many reasons why your team might currently be using a physical Kanban board rather than an online Kanban board. For one, using a physical Kanban board is a great way to learn the fundamentals of Kanban. It can get your team to commit to the idea of sharing work on a shared board,...

5 Ways to Use Mindfulness for Increased Productivity

One of the greatest questions constantly facing business owners, managers and individual employees is how to improve productivity at work. The theme is a multi-billion-dollar industry and has spawned thousands of help books and speaker tours, yet the solution might actually be one of the relatively simplest to implement – mindfulness. Mindfulness is a relatively...

How to Use Project Management Tools to Manage Your Marketing Workflow

New technology has radically altered how marketing teams function, not only in terms of on what and where they work but also how they work. Progressing from spreadsheet Gantt charts and basic early programs, online project management tools have become an essential piece of every successful marketing team’s operations. With most marketing departments moving towards...