Project Portfolio Management
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.
Focus on Portfolio, not Projects, in PPM
Portfolio managers play a vital role within organizations, yet there are some myths around the role and its intrinsic value. The value of portfolio managers is often misunderstood and understated — often as a result of too much emphasis being placed on projects and execution, rather than portfolios as a whole and how they drive...
How WIP Limits Can Rescue Troubled Agile Teams
In theory, agile is an approach and mindset that helps teams respond more effectively to change, and exploit (rather than avoid) continuous feedback loops to deliver products faster, better, cheaper, and with greater customer satisfaction. What’s not to love about this? Yet in practice, many agile teams are struggling rather than thriving — and more...
How Agile Teams Can Master the Art of Saying NO
Legendary investor Warren Buffet has said that the core habit that separates successful people from very successful people, is that the latter say no to almost everything. Evidently, very successful agile marketing teams are borrowing from Mr. Buffet’s playbook, because compared to their counterparts, they’re supremely talented in the art of saying no. What makes...
Better Together: Planview and Cherwell Join Forces
Partnership highlights power of Planview Portfolio Management and Cherwell ITSM to help joint customers better achieve their strategic and operational goals Like the human brain, an organization can rewire itself in response to disruptive events, creating new models for connecting strategy and delivery. There’s a renewed urgency here, and Planview is committed to helping our...
4 Productivity Tips for Working From Home
In recent years, business leaders and employees alike have had a lot of different things to say about working from home. From the CEO of Yahoo banning remote work to tech firms and startups championing the productivity benefits of working from home (WFH), none of it seems to matter these days. That’s because the coronavirus...
New to Remote Working? Here are Your Keys to S.U.C.C.E.S.S.
The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically increased the number of remote workers. The good news (and yes, we all need some good news) is that thanks to the internet, web, cloud, mobile devices and unified communication tools, remote working is inestimably more viable and easier today than it was in the past. Indeed, even just a...
Quick Edit and Interactive Dashboards for Changepoint PPM
We are excited to announce new and enhanced features in Changepoint PPM. These updates are part of our commitment to continuously provide new features to improve your PPM experience.
A Day in the Life of an Agile Marketing Project Manager
If you’ve been a marketing project manager for years, but are looking to take your efficiency to the next level, you may want to consider an Agile marketing approach. Agile marketing is a collaborative method of marketing that involves teams working together to complete high-level projects, analyze the impact, and then make measurable tweaks to...
The 10 Unexpected Joys of Virtual Happy Hour
If you’re searching for something positive to focus on during this extremely challenging time, then I have three words for you: virtual happy hour. Here at Planview AdaptiveWork, we had them every Friday (and will definitely resume in the future). You can enjoy them with your colleagues and especially expand them to your friends, in...