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Regain Focus with Kanban

How often do you find yourself at work flipping between tabs, unable to complete a thought before moving onto something else? You go from answering an email to checking a Facebook notification to reading some LinkedIn article, and then – what was I doing? Oh yeah, answering that email. It’s the digital equivalent of walking...

Why Great Customer Service in a Lean Company Matters

The ultimate goal of Lean management is to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. Traditionally focused on manufacturing and software development, customer value comes in the form of speed, price, and product quality. But what about the value of customer service? We’ve found that practicing Lean principles can help you become a more efficient customer-focused...

Lean Blogs to Help You Improve Efficiency

A key part of continuous improvement (one of the pillars of Lean) is continuous education – keeping your brain actively engaged with Lean ideas. Reading Lean blogs can keep Lean principles and practices top of mind as you make decisions in work and in life. It can help you remember to use a testing mindset with both...

New Look, Same Planview AgilePlace

You may have noticed a few small changes recently in Planview AgilePlace, namely the font and color. These changes are just a couple of examples of the many small changes we will be making as we update our UI to a new, fresh look. Our goal is to maintain the same ease of use that...

Goodbye Manual User Management, Hello Automated User Provisioning

Picture this: 10,000 employees and 20 enterprise-wide applications with an average of ten new hires and five exiting employees a week. Now imagine the amount of time someone spends creating, editing, deleting and permissioning all those users and roles across the varying applications they use — ever changing with requests growing by the day. If...

Kanban with JIRA

Planview AgilePlace is a powerful Lean-Kanban tool that enables teams to visualize and manage their work processes. It is popular with IT Operations teams because it allows more flexibility than a traditional software development tool. Meanwhile, many development teams use JIRA, an Agile tool, for issue and project tracking. Integrating Planview AgilePlace with JIRA can...

An Open Letter to our Customers and Partners from Tim Mulron & Jon Terry

Today, we are excited to announce that Planview AgilePlace has been acquired by Planview, and we are joining the Planview portfolio of work and resource management (WRM) solutions. By combining our two like-minded cultures, and by building on both of our companies’ strong commitment to serving our customers, we see an incredible opportunity to enable organizations...

Planview and Planview AgilePlace Come Together, Extending WRM into Lean-Agile

It’s an exciting day for Planview and LeanKit as today we announced that we are coming together to launch the next phase of our work and resource management (WRM) vision. As I have been briefing industry analysts and customers on this news, I am struck by several overwhelmingly consistent reactions that are worth sharing. The first...

A Guide to Navigating Integrations: Pros and Cautions

In 2007, Steve Jobs opened a keynote presentation promising the world three new products — a widescreen touch iPod, a revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough internet device. But in a twist of events he pulled out a single device, the Original iPhone. While this was a revolutionary, “one to rule them all” type of...

Agile: The Key to Faster, More Responsive Marketing

In this webinar, you’ll hear firsthand about Agile marketing and why it gives you a competitive advantage in your marketing operations. Agile Marketing experts from AgileSparks and Terminus will dive into the strategy and tactics behind Agile marketing. They’ll also share an example of how a leading B2B account-based marketing team was able to successfully...