Your path to business agility
The PMO is under constant pressure. From maintaining standards for project management practices to planning and delivering projects – the PMO needs to be in constant sync with strategy and business outcomes. This PMO blog category provides numerous recommendations from experts to encourage top down and bottom up planning, improve processes, promote stakeholder satisfaction, and ultimately eliminate silos to advance the PMO function. Get expert advice on the pros and cons of adopting a continuous planning model. Experts will also share real-world advice on choosing your next Project Portfolio Management tool and how to #BeThatPMO your business needs.
Driven to keep up with the accelerating speed of business, enterprises are leaving behind a hierarchical “command and control” model, and embracing a flatter “sense and respond” approach so they can rapidly adapt to constant change, and readily adjust at a moment’s notice. At least, they’re trying to. The Enemy Within Surprisingly, some enterprises are...
In the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke, a brutal prison warden summarizes his chronic disconnect with rebellious convict Paul Newman by uttering what is arguably the biggest under-statement in history: “what we have here, is a failure to communicate.” Well, fast forward about half a century, and those exact words are being uttered with the...
While the phrase game-changer can be applied somewhat loosely these days, there are instances when it is the only suitable, honest description – and cloud-based project and work management software certainly qualifies to be on this short list of groundbreaking innovations. A Well-Earned Revolutionary Reputation Obviously, when compared to its conventional on-premise ancestor, the big,...
Planview AdaptiveWork Named a Top Rated Project Management Software by Users on TrustRadius We are pleased to announce that Planview AdaptiveWork has been named a top rated project management software by users on TrustRadius. The rankings are based on 880+ in-depth reviews and user rankings. TrustRadius is the leading website for business software users to...
Last week, we announced our all-new integration with leading customer success management solution Gainsight to create a 360 degree of the customer engagement lifecycle. As a user of Planview AdaptiveWork, Gainsight has also integrated Planview AdaptiveWork into its services group, who owns onboarding and any custom/additional projects, as well as its customer success strategy. The...
Guest Author, Marie Sahrmann, Gainsight Does your customer organization often feel they have little insight into the customer’s experience during onboarding or a services engagement? Do you need a better method to keep sales, services and customer success aligned throughout the customer’s lifecycle? Well despair no further! Maintaining that transparency and alignment across your teams...
Many organizations are hesitant to adopt a formal PMO, but those that have are realizing the benefits as well as the potential of such an organization. According to PMI Pulse of the Profession, businesses with a PMO see a 27% decrease in failed projects and an 45% increase in project alignment with business objectives. Furthermore,...
As the Senior Director of Planview AdaptiveWork’s Global Sales Engineering Center of Excellence, I lead a passionate team that ensures our customers leverage all of Planview AdaptiveWork’s features, tools and functions in their environment, and with their teams. Or in other words: our job is to optimize the WOW factor in the Planview AdaptiveWork innovation...
Almost everyone has heard of the four P’s of marketing – product, pricing, promotion, and place. Marketers use these to help develop a marketing and go-to-market strategy for their product or services. The marketing four P’s serve as a guideline. A PMO should also have four P’s that can provide a guideline for PMO teams...
If you’ve been watching the latest trends, you’re no doubt already aware enterprise IT and PMO leaders are feeling increased pressure to deliver on digital transformation initiatives. In today’s market, providing a seamless customer experience is a top priority, and, more than ever, it’s a company’s digital transformation initiatives that are instrumental in delivering on...
