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People are talking about the misaligned middle. How can it be that executives understand the value of emerging practices in IT Operations, such as Lean and DevOps, and individual contributors in the trenches get it, but the middle managers just don’t seem to? Are they unaware? Stubborn? Is it learned helplessness? Sandwiched between leadership and individual contributors,...
Hello, my name is Geoff Craig and I am an Automation Engineer here at Planview AgilePlace. In my previous life, I worked in IT Operations for numerous companies, large and small, on projects of varying complexity. In every IT Operations group that I’ve worked with, there were always competing priorities from different parts of the...
Planview AgilePlace provides a flexible environment where teams practicing different methodologies — such as Kanban, Scrum, Waterfall and everything in between — can work together within the context of the larger enterprise system to deliver value faster. Our reports and Lean metrics help you create an environment of continuous improvement, enabling teams to optimize the...
Are miscommunications, handoff delays and unforeseen issues impacting your organization’s ability to deliver? Watch this webinar to learn how to reflect your work structure in Planview AgilePlace so you can keep work flowing across multiple teams. About this Webinar In this webinar, Chip Carey, Director of Customer Success at Planview AgilePlace, discusses how to: Decompose...
Guardrails are designed to keep people from unintentionally straying into dangerous territory. They are usually placed in the trickiest areas, where it is easy to take a wrong turn. Just as guardrails along the roadway keep drivers safer, decision–making guardrails can protect businesses from taking unnecessary risks. Our concept of guardrails for knowledge work was born...
Automation is a way to improve a process by reducing or eliminating the need for manual effort. It can improve the speed or accuracy of a repeatable process, freeing your resources to focus on more nuanced work. Automation can also help make it easy for anyone to jump into a process with little to no...
If software QA began with a specific number of bugs, it might be easier to find all the issues. For example, many puzzle books show you a drawing and ask you to find an exact number of hidden objects. Or, they show you a pair of drawings and ask you to spot a certain number...
Watch this webinar to learn how modern Agile simplifies and streamlines traditional Agile processes while making them sturdier. About this Webinar In this webinar, Joshua Kerievsky, CEO of Industrial Logic, urges us to embrace change and stop practicing Agile like it’s 1999. You’ll learn how modern Agile simplifies and streamlines traditional Agile processes while making them sturdier, based on four overlapping...
Keeping track of work initiatives that span multiple teams is challenging at the best of times. How do you ensure that each team has a clear understanding of what needs to be delivered and by when? What’s the process for managing handoffs and interdependent work between teams? How do you know when your timeline is...
Inevitably, every process has a bottleneck: There is some step that has a lower capacity than the steps before or after it. This may be because there are fewer resources dedicated to performing this step, or because it requires more time to complete than the other steps in the process. Regardless, this bottleneck is the limiting...
