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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...
Ever wonder what you have in common with an NFL football player? Maybe more than you think if part of your workday is spent on your feet, closing deals, and problem solving with a tablet or smartphone in hand. Just like those players using sideline tablets to tweak offensive schemes, you are part of the...
Portföljinstrumentpaneler är ett fantastiskt sätt att följa mätvärden och framsteg i hela organisationen. De ger insikt i projektstatus, ekonomi och färdplaner, för att nämna några exempel. I slutändan är målet med instrumentpaneler att ge en helhetsbild av hur det arbete som utförs dagligen överensstämmer med företagets strategiska mål och målsättningar....
Hej, jag heter Tyler Welton. Jag är säkerhetsingenjör på Planview AgilePlace och jag älskar det. Jag tillbringar en stor del av min tid med att utföra både defensiva och offensiva säkerhetsuppgifter för vår webbapplikation, infrastruktur och säkerhetskultur. Informationssäkerhet är svårt. Det är ännu svårare att tillhandahålla god säkerhet. Agil utvecklingsmetodik och...
