Vision and Trends

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.  

Planview is Leaning into the Changing World of Work with You

When we say it’s time to lean in to the changing world of work, know that, here at Planview, we also practice what we preach. We’re leaning into a new way of work as an organization and helping our customers do the same. This means not just selling solutions and talking about the new way...

What’s Presenteeism and Why Is It On the Rise in the UK?

While the UK continues to reach record numbers in terms of its employment and overall engagement in the workforce, another issue is being raised which may undercut the excitement about the pure numbers of people taking up jobs. This is the productivity of employees in the UK, which consistently lags behind its international peers, and...

The Flow Framework™ – Treating risk items as a security cost

In the Flow Framework™ there are four flow items that provide value to the end-user of your product: Features (new business value) Defects (quality) Technical debt (removal of impediments to future delivery) Risk (security, governance, compliance) A software organization must devote time to each flow item as they are all crucial to a strong product....

How to drive customer obsessed Product Development

At Tasktop our Product, Engineering and UX teams operate under a single umbrella called ‘Product Development’ to make all our value streams “customer-obsessed”. Our teams do not work in silos or a single project, rather they are focused on optimizing the value stream for a single product – such as Tasktop Integration Hub – to...

Scammers Stole £1.2bn from British Bank Customers in 2018

Security in the age of ever-increasing technological access to our lives continues to grow as an issue for banks and business in the UK. Not only are larger amounts having to be spent on cybersecurity, such as using ultra-secure cloud-based software, there are also the increased skills that have to be learnt, time taken to...

Why So Many UK Women Are Working Beyond Retirement

Despite the problems caused by Brexit, such as legislative inaction, lost growth and economic uncertainty, business in the UK still seems to be booming. This can be ascertained from its employment figures which continue to break records and show no sign of slowing down. Figures show that there are now 32.7 million people working in...

Gender Pay Gap Is Growing Despite Declaration Obligation

The lack of transparency across many businesses means that major problems can go unnoticed and undealt with for a long time. On a project level this could be solved by getting better project management software, but on a national level it requires a much broader solution. The gender pay gap is just one such issue...

The Four Flow items as explained by my car

We have a long drive ahead, 12 hours in fact, and it will only take us a short way along the Eastern coastline of Australia. Having just arrived back from Tasktop HQ in Vancouver, BC where we have been discussing the Flow Framework™, I’m excited to tell my passengers (my wife and family) about the...

Another Record High for UK Employment

Despite the continued uncertainty and political stasis brought about by Britain’s decision to leave the European Union, or Brexit as it is known, the country’s economy is bucking all trends and going from strength to strength, with one of the biggest signifiers of this being the fact that unemployment in the UK is at all-time...