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If you’ve ever looked at your board and wondered, “Who’s working on that?”, Planview AgilePlace can instantly show you the answer with three types of card icons: a user monogram, a custom avatar image uploaded to your Planview AgilePlace account, or an image hosted by Gravatar. The Scoop on Each of the Three Options Automatic Monogram. User monograms are automatically...
See how to modify the layout of your Planview AgilePlace board to accurately reflect your team’s process. In this short video you’ll learn how to: Add new lanes, reposition them and increase lane width to show your process Create sub-lanes for stages of work within your process Use horizontal swimlanes for parallel processes Planview AgilePlace is designed to let you build out any work...
It sounds counter-intuitive, but limiting your work in process (WIP) actually improves your flow — and your team’s productivity. In this three-part series, Stephen Franklin, CIO at Planview AgilePlace, draws from experience to explain the common obstacles you’ll face when setting WIP limits, and tips for overcoming them. In part one of this blog series, I discussed why...
Planview AgilePlace Task Boards help you break down and manage the finer details of your work. Seeing each granular task as a part of your visual flow of work promotes visibility for the whole team. Group and Ungroup Work On the Fly For those, “Oops, those should’ve been grouped together…” moments, cards include a ‘Move to Taskboard’...
In this webinar, we explain why setting work-in-progress limits is necessary if you want to establish and improve your flow of work. Simply put, you can’t do more work than you can handle. It makes sense, but with all the competing demands on our time, it’s too easy to bite off more than we can chew –...
It sounds counter-intuitive, but limiting your work in process (WIP) actually improves your flow — and your team’s productivity. In this three-part series, Stephen Franklin, CIO at Planview AgilePlace, draws from experience to explain the common obstacles you’ll face when setting WIP limits, and tips for overcoming them. Missed deadlines, constant task switching and inefficient handoffs are...
If you’re a fan of Jim Benson and Tonianne DeMaria Barry’s Personal Kanban writings, you’ll know that they have two basic rules: Visualize your work Limit your Work-in-Progress Being relatively new to Kanban, the first rule instantly made a lot of sense to me — particularly in the context of using Planview AgilePlace. Being able to see the...
We’ve been busy delivering some important enhancements over the past few months to improve your Planview AgilePlace experience. We’ve announced some of these separately, but wanted to give you a roundup of all the latest and greatest Planview AgilePlace features. Save time with automated updates Integration Service Don’t mess around with duplicate entry. Our new...
The hardest part of getting started with visual management can be figuring out your workflow process. If you’ve never tried visual management before, terms like “value stream” and “mapping your workflow” can sound quite intimidating. So let’s rewind and go over the basics. Visual management is based on the principles of Kanban. Step one for getting...
You might believe that multitasking is an efficient means of getting stuff done quickly. You might also believe that there is a Sasquatch population thriving in the forests of the Pacific Northwest. For each case, I want to believe it is true. However, facing the facts, I have reluctantly accepted that each is a myth. While my agnostic love...
