Don’t Let Your Structure Keep Fighting Your Talent
Your teams are brilliant. They're solving complex customer problems, building innovative solutions, and creating real value every day. But they're fighting your organizational structure to do it.
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At Planview, our vision is simple: to help organizations realize their resource potential. This PPM Vision and Trends category is all about thought leadership. Read about what Planview thought leaders are saying about the work and resource management market as it relates to PPM, work collaboration, and enterprise architecture. We’ll also provide information on industry news, trends, and company stewardship. Whether you are seeking a sneak peek at our product lineup or curious about our latest innovation push, Visions and Trends contain a wide range of information. We’ll help you get your arms around the changing landscape and how to better understand the forces at work and the pace of disruption. We can even help you re-assess how to attack your toughest resource challenges and how to stay on top of new certifications.
Your teams are brilliant. They're solving complex customer problems, building innovative solutions, and creating real value every day. But they're fighting your organizational structure to do it.
We’re living through one of the most extraordinary moments in business history – the rise of AI. This is not just another wave of technology; it’s a revolution that is reshaping industries, redefining customer expectations, and transforming how work gets done. And here’s the exciting part: we are right in the middle of it.
Sometimes, running an enterprise feels a bit like trying to build a house during an earthquake. One day, you’re dealing with disruptive technology and changing customer needs, next, it’s budget pressures and fears of a recession looming. Just when you think you’ve got your footing, government policy changes abruptly and forces you to rethink everything....
In episode 62 of the Mik + One podcast, Gene Kim and Dr. Mik Kersten discuss how AI helps developers work 10 times faster, but most companies aren't set up to take advantage of this speed boost. Mik and Gene talk about the changes in tech setup, leadership, and company structure needed to succeed with AI.
If you’ve already started to shift from project to product, you may feel stuck. You’ve made changes and introduced new ways of working, but maybe the outcomes haven’t changed in kind. In reality, many organizations report these kinds of results. The first sign of friction is often felt in the delivery pipeline: progress slows, feedback loops break down, and teams operate at odds with business goals.
Alan Manuel, GVP, Product Management at Planview, explains how your mindset factors into the success of your transformation. "One of the biggest lessons in trying to achieve a product operating model is that approaching change from the perspective of a change agent alone almost never works," he explains. Put another way, you need to think like a player and a coach to be an effective leader.
Some uncertainty is inevitable for product-driven organizations. To mitigate risk and maximize value, most organizations perform a comprehensive impact analysis before making any investment decisions. However, some impacts are easier to estimate than others. Microeconomic industry changes, such as demand fluctuations or predictable innovations, are relatively straightforward – for example, automotive organizations can anticipate electric...
When Abby Knowles stepped in to lead Verizon’s software engineering product model transformation, the leadership transition could have derailed the initiative. Without genuine buy-in from new leadership, teams seldom fully commit to change. Half-hearted commitment at any level can stall or undermine an entire initiative. In fact, it’s one of the primary reasons why roughly 70% of transformation efforts ultimately fail. This article reveals the essential factors Abby and her colleague, Archana Prabhu, credit for securing buy-in, maintaining momentum in their product model transformation, and delivering impressive results.
Today’s report explores the priorities for leaders in a volatile economy and how Planview empowers you to respond quickly as an aligned organization.
At the 2024 Project to Product Summit, Sue Schweitzer, Senior Flow Advisor at The Vanguard Group, shared how Vanguard scaled flow across 750+ IT teams, transforming their way of working. What began as a small pilot to improve developer experience grew into an enterprise-wide program, tackling work-in-progress (WIP) overload, fragmented workflows, and alignment challenges. By...