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Here at Tasktop we really like industry standards. It’s important for us to use well known tools and frameworks to make transitions between teams easier. When it comes to creating a REST API there is no way around JAX-RS in the Java world. But JAX-RS (or one of it’s implementations) is not a full server...
Today, the Planview IdeaPlace team is happy to announce record business growth with a 32% increase in new customers in 2015 as well as significant expansion across major industry segments including: financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and energy. In working with innovation practitioners from global organizations such as AT&T, Citibank, Unilever, and Pfizer, – one thing...
It’s that time of year when thousands of people converge in downtown Austin to take in the interactive, music and film fun of SXSW. Here’s what’s happening with Planview at SXSW 2016! The Projectplace team here at Planview is gearing up for these festivities taking place March 13 through 16. If you’re one of the...
Do you ever wonder about the true cost of project inefficiencies in your organization? And more importantly, what could be accomplished if the common hurdles were removed? In a recent survey of 200 U.S. based project managers: 55 percent report time is wasted! On average, respondents believe they waste seven hours per week because of...
In most R&D organizations, the portfolio management team walks a narrow line between the project teams and the executives. The portfolio staff polls the project teams for information about each new and ongoing initiative, builds portfolio views, and shares the updated state of the portfolio with executives. In an ideal world, the portfolio team members...
This is written from the perspective of an Enterprise Architect tasked with enabling an organizations effort to be more competitive by adopting Agile. The company has turned to SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) as a way of scaling Agile since initial attempts at Agile were not successful despite lots and lots of scrum master trainings. I’m...
What are Vanity Metrics? Vanity, as an adjective, means “produced as a showcase for one’s talents” — i.e., a vanity production. When we showcase our own talents, we choose what makes us look good and ignore what doesn’t. In this post, we’ll look at an IT Operations team that is caught in an interesting, though...
IT PMO responsibilities are typically centered around delivering projects on time, on budget, and in scope. But the question the IT PMO should be asking is whether those projects are still high value to the business or if things have changed – driving the need to re-prioritize the portfolio. Traditional metrics are failing to provide...
A common challenge we come across is that while you may want to send all data from your DevOps or Event-based tools to a database for analysis, you dont want to have all of those same events synchronized across your software lifecycle tools. Selectively syncing the events within your DevOps tools allows you to have...
Editor’s note: this is a guest post by Steve Glaveski. “Move fast and break things.” This was the mantra of Facebook in its early days, as is the case with most startups that subscribe to the iterative product development method popularized by the Lean Startup. However, a startup’s primary job is to discover new sustainable business...
