How to Build an Outcome Tree That Actually Drives Product Decisions

At Planview Connect 2025, Planview CTO and author of Project to Product, Dr. Mik Kersten shared a preview of his upcoming book, Output to Outcome, and introduced a set of ideas that are already reshaping how organizations think about strategy, delivery, and value.

Don’t Let Your Structure Keep Fighting Your Talent 

Your teams are brilliant. They're solving complex customer problems, building innovative solutions, and creating real value every day. But they're fighting your organizational structure to do it.

Integrating Demand Management and Prioritization for Strategic Advantage

Over the past three blogs, we’ve taken you on a journey from identifying the strategic costs of broken processes to mastering demand management and building intelligent prioritization frameworks. Today, we complete the picture by showing why integration—not just process improvement—creates sustainable competitive advantage. Fixing demand management or prioritization in isolation can certainly reduce chaos and...

Strategic Prioritization and Creating Organizational Courage to Say No

In our previous blogs, we explored how broken intake processes create strategic chaos and how adding structure to demand management can move an organization from fire drills to aligned opportunities. Today, we tackle the second half of the equation: turning captured demand into focused action through intelligent prioritization. You’ve filtered out all the pet projects...

From Inbox Chaos to Strategic Pipeline: Mastering Demand Management

The first blog in this series explored how broken demand management and prioritization processes create strategic chaos and outlined steps to identify where problems exist and how to correct them. Today, we dive deeper into the first half of this critical equation: demand management. Demand management is the process for capturing and governing requests and...