Your path to business agility
First published on ProjectManagement.com on December 4th, 2012 We’ve all heard the adage, “By failing to plan, you are planning to fail,” but for IT departments trying to handle myriad work requests on a continual basis, a more apt adage would be “By failing to prioritize, you are planning to fail.” This article is designed to...
In the words of one of baseball’s brightest stars Yogi Berra, “If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else”. Score a win for your IT project and realize more revenue by implementing these key project management tips. Deliver projects on time, and within budget. Just put on your manager’s...
By Samir Mukadam, VP of Product Management at Innotas We briefly mentioned Application Portfolio Management (APM) in our most recent post. Since then we have received many emails from customers and prospects on how one should go about rolling out APM in their organization. –Here is how Innotas thinks an IT organization should approach APM:...
With cloud-based project portfolio management software, project management offices can gain visibility into both strategic initiatives and sustaining operations, resulting in clear visibility into operations, effective prioritization, and better decision-making across the entire portfolio. A Project Management Office (PMO) doesn’t always achieve its full potential. Project managers often find themselves short on resources, time and...
And, we’re back with the exciting conclusion to our 3 part resource management blog series. We’ve already taken a look at laying a foundation and capturing our current workload. In this post, we will explore how we achieve optimization and alignment of our portfolio of projects to squeeze the most efficiency out of our people....
By: George Shaheen, Sales Consultant & Product Evangelist at Innotas In part 1 of this series, we took a look at how we lay down a foundation for resource management success by documenting each of our people, their attributes, setting corporate calendars, and finally, out of office time. Upon that strong foundation, we are going...
By: George Shaheen, Sales Consultant & Product Evangelist at Innotas So you’ve done it. You’ve decided you’re going to implement some sort of resource management within your organization to get a handle on what everyone is working on, if your people are doing too much, too little (yeah right), and whether or not it’s relevant...
By: Joerg Koehler, Director of Marketing at Innotas According to a recent report from PM Solutions (The State of the PMO 2012), the sheer number of PMOs and their power within an organization has risen dramatically since 2000. 87% of all surveyed companies and organizations (large and small) have a PMO in place in 2012....
By: Tim Madewell, SVP Services at Innotas We’ve received a bunch of questions about our JIRA integration in response to our recent partnership announcement and our webinar with Kyle Miller from JIRA/Atlassian. Question #1: In the integration, where is request management handled? If you’re getting requests from both JIRA and Innotas, where are they managed?...
Hot on the heels of Tim Madewell’s post, Are there clouds hanging over your enterprise?, where Tim discusses the direction cloud solutions are heading with regards to integrations, we at Innotas continue to rapidly pursue building our ecosystem of integrations with the intent of providing best-of-breed solutions to our customers. Along with our integration with...
