Your path to business agility
In the real world of project management — the one where waterfall diagrams don’t always fall, and critical paths aren’t always critical — I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that issue management skills determine project success as much as anything else. Show me a good project manager, and I’ll show you a good...
Many organizations aspire to adopt agile processes such as Scrum, Kanban and even a combination like Scrumban to take advantage of the numerous benefits that they offer to an organization. Those benefits include, but are not limited to, quicker return on investment, better software quality, and higher customer satisfaction. As part of this shift, organizations...
As a project manager, you can feel certain on almost every new project that something will go wrong along the way. You may not know what exactly it will be—unavailable resources, scheduling conflicts, changes in requirements or something else—but chances are that at least one part of your project plan will break. What separates average...
One of the things we asked ourselves when we founded Planview AdaptiveWork is why was MS Project so popular and so commonly used? The answer is simple; it’s available, affordable, and includes a very necessary set of Project Management features. The next question we asked was, “why is Excel even more popular and commonly used...
In the business world, it is often said that execution is everything. What most commonly separates successful organizations from those that lag behind or, oftentimes those who fail altogether, are not great ideas, but great delivery. To be sure, a great idea or product can make you and your organization initially successful. However, without solid...
A well known self-help guru, who has legions of raving fans across the world and dozens of books to his credit, once suggested that there is no such thing as failure; there are only results. Well, as edifying as that may be, telling a Project Sponsor that “the project wasn’t a total disaster – it...
As more companies around the world – from fresh solopreneurial start-ups all the way up to large established enterprises – grasp the fact that project management is an efficient and effective approach to reducing risk, ensuring quality, controlling costs, and achieving objectives, the decision to get project management software is an easy one. However, that’s...
Clarizen’s configuration platform allows you to create a vast array of business rules, custom actions, and custom fields to help automate business processes, customize Planview AdaptiveWork to meet your needs, and most importantly, have workflow processes collaborated between all members of your team as well as your clients. We at Planview AdaptiveWork pride ourselves on...
In his article “How to Turn a Failed Project into a Successful Program”, Shay Shargal noted that one of the reasons projects fail is the “Poor communication and coordination between various stakeholders of the project: Customers, Vendors, Suppliers, Managers, Resources and others.” When communication breaks down and perceptions on roles and responsibilities are misaligned, the...
The time you’ve been dreaming of is finally here. All of those endless hours and, alas, sleepless nights have finally paid off. At long last, you know that you have in your hands (or perhaps on your screen) a WINNING product – one that’s going to transform the conversation in your marketplace, win you many...
