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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.
“If you measure anything, measure wait time” – Dominica DeGrandis, Making Work Visible A major part of Flow Metrics is tracking all the work that goes into planning, building and delivering a product for the business. Just as it’s important to track how much value you’re delivering, how long work is takin, and how much...
The first metric in our Flow Metrics series is Flow Velocity, a measure of productivity and one of the “money metrics”. It tells you how many items were completed over a given period of time (week or month over month). Tracking your Flow Velocity over time provides historical data for teams to see if their delivery...
The UK election this past December 12 delivered a resounding victory for the Conservative Party, who won 364 seats out of 650. This has handed Prime Minister Boris Johnson a huge majority to push forward his legislative agenda, with wide-ranging effects in store for both the UK economy and its society in general. In a...
The emergence of Flow Metrics, presented in Dr. Mik Kersten’s the Flow Framework™, arrives at a crucial time. While the need to deliver more value from software is well-documented, there has been no real form of measurement that can tell organizations if their transformational efforts are working — until now. The Flow Metrics—Velocity, Efficiency, Time...
Brexit has had a massive impact on nearly all parts of the UK’s economy and society since its decision to leave the world’s largest trading bloc, the EU, in 2016. There is at least one sector, however, where it seems to be having little impact: the country’s business schools. In fact, according to recent figures...
Workers’ rights have been one of the main sticking points of opposition to Britain’s 2016 decision to leave the EU. It is feared by many that the strong employment safeguards guaranteed under EU law will be under threat from a new, stripped-down and deregulated employment regime once the country exits the trading bloc. According to...
Britain has so far ably navigated the uncertain waters created by its 2016 decision to leave the EU, with its economy boasting record unemployment and considerable real wage growth. However, as the country gets closer to a deal on Brexit and its future trading relationship with its European neighbors, there is another major issue facing...
A year ago Gene Kim and I were sitting at a bar in Detroit, discussing the Gemba Walk that we were invited to by Chris O’Malley, the CEO of Compuware. That conversation quickly turned to a problem that Gene had with the current state of The Unicorn Project. The characters were there, the plot was...
One of the fields to benefit from the uncertainty that has characterized the UK economy since the Brexit vote in 2016 has been consultancy firms. PwC has announced its biggest profits in a decade, led by a huge increase in demand for consultancy services from firms worried about how Brexit will affect their business. The...
It’s been a year since the launch of Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework, the bestselling book by Tasktop founder & CEO, Dr. Mik Kersten. With over 23,000 copies sold, the book currently sits within the Top 10 ‘Information Management’ bestsellers on Amazon,...
