How to Keep Your Team Hyped In Between Status Meetings

The immediate boost in team morale following a good status meeting can be like that all-important half-time team talk that turns a game around. However, it’s one thing to keep a team pumped for an hour or so to see them through to the end of a game, and something else entirely to keep them...

Agile Costing and Capitalization: Still a Significant Barrier to Scaling Agile

As a professional working in technology, it amazes me how much business has changed over the years. I’ve seen PMOs move from project management to portfolio management. I’ve seen Agile move from the team to team of teams. Now, I’m watching as we question, challenge, and evolve again with the rise of Lean Portfolio Management and the move to a product-centric...

Careful what you wish for – the challenges of agile adoption

There’s no question that technology and innovation are changing the world you live in at a very fast pace. Wasn’t it just yesterday that your dad carried his mobile phone in a big bag everywhere he went? In the world of business – tech innovation and the disruption it brings – are upending the way...

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...