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.
We facilitated a roundtable discussion of our customers at the 2019 Planview Horizons Customer Conference where enterprise agility in financial services organizations was discussed. We learned more about some of the biggest struggles financial institutions face with a focus on capacity planning, funding models, and digital transformation. The topic discussed for most of the roundtable...
What does 2020 hold in store for agile teams? According to our crystal ball (actually, it’s a discussion thread and Kanban board), here are 7 bold predictions for the year ahead: Sprints will stop being exhaustive, and start being energizing. More agile teams will look forward to them vs. dread them. See? We told you...
Feedback and criticism are not always easy to take. They can be seen as attacks on our way of working or a public revelation of how incompetent we always secretly felt we were. Whether we like it or not, though, we’re always going to face feedback from somewhere as we progress professionally, as any time...
In our previous post on prioritization, we talked about the importance of prioritizing your work. We also covered the groundwork you’ll need to know before implementing project prioritization methodologies of your own. Today, we’re going to take it a step further. If you’re new to prioritization, this post will help you learn how to identify...
Planview recently held a webinar with Michael Havison, Portfolio Director at Parkview Health where the focus was on project prioritization with strategic work intake. The On-Demand webinar is called, “Parkview Health: Prioritizing Project Investments with Strategic Work Intake.” We encourage you to listen to the full webinar, but in the meantime, review the following answers...
The precise future of project management is unknowable, but we can make a pretty solid presumption that quite a lot of what project managers do on a daily basis now will be radically changed by technology moving forward. Automation is one of the biggest of these elements of change, with the potential to thoroughly shake...
Planview AdaptiveWork and Procore Partner to Help Construction Companies Improve Agility Before and After the Bulldozers Break New Ground Peanut butter and jelly. The mouse and keyboard. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Just a few examples of products and people that are great on their own, but after you pair them together, you wonder how...
Overstretching your mental and physical resources is a common occurrence for many of us, especially those who have trouble saying no to extra tasks on top of a full workload. Avoiding burnout at work can then involve trying to manage expectations while at the same time not seeming like you’re slacking or being a team...
Agile marketing is constantly evolving, like the Jedi skills of young Luke Skywalker, as new best practices emerge. Meanwhile, traditional technologies need a helping hand to manage industry changes. Enterprises must embrace the fact that agile marketing isn’t optional — it’s essential to staying competitive and appealing to customers. What’s stopping your enterprise from having...
We’ve already taken a good look at the future of management, or should we say “anti-management”? This involves throwing off the shackles and constraints of traditional management structures and hierarchies, which can constrict innovation and places decision-making in the hands of people who might not actually know the most about what they’re deciding on. Many...
