Your path to business agility
“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...
If you who haven’t read Project to Product yet or any of my previous posts on the four key flow items from the Flow Framework™, let me give you a bit of background. There are four flow items that provide value to the end-user of your software product: features (new business value), defects (quality), technical...
Projects failing is a natural part of all business operations, with some statistics showing that up to 70% of all projects fail (i.e. fail to come in either on time, on budget or with the outcomes they were supposed to have). What’s worse is, the bigger the project, the more likely it is to fail...
As performance expectations continue to rise, so does the desire to pinpoint what goes into creating successful teams. That’s because a great team doesn’t simply combine the talents of its members—it enhances them, allowing them to achieve far more than they could alone. In the words of the philosopher Aristotle, “The whole is greater than...
Traditionally, enterprise architecture (EA) has been largely defined as an IT role. Its purpose was to help organizations’ IT infrastructure and modernization of projects. These days, enterprise architecture is evolving into something bigger. It’s moving away from a practice heavily rooted in day-to-day IT management, and is now becoming more strategic in helping organizations innovate...
