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.  

To Transform to Have Agility, Don’t Do a Capital A, Capital T Agile Transformation

The concept of “flow” is a common thread in DevOps. Fin Goulding and Hayden Shaughnessy do a great job summarizing the concept of flow and how it relates to digital transformation in their book Flow: A Handbook for Change-Makers, Mavericks, Innovation Activists and Leaders: Digital Transformation Simplified. In a previous article, “Modular Architectures Make You...

3 Steps to Dominate Digital Disruption

Digital disruption is everywhere. It has infiltrated not only the ways in which people work, how organizations deliver products, and what is required to remain competitive in today’s market, but it has also vastly altered customer expectations and demands. Gone are the days in which customers merely anticipated the next product release—those days have been...

Faster Broadband Has Benefited UK Businesses

If there had been any doubt as to the potential benefits of large-scale state investment in infrastructure, then the latest indications on the success of the rollout of the UK’s super-fast broadband should allay them. The responsible UK government department, for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), has stated that nearly 5 million UK business...

Develop Breakthrough Smart Products to Create New Revenue Streams [Webinar]

IoT and smart products are having a dramatic impact on our organizations. Customer expectations are higher, the competition is increasingly fierce, and product portfolio management in this digital age is only becoming more complicated. Leaders must leverage new strategies, processes, tools, and best practices to be successful, tasks that may not always be easy, but...

Project To Product: From Stories To Scenius

This blog was originally posted on the IT Revolution blog on November 19, 2018. We learn through stories—either through our own or through those passed on by others that we admire. When I first read The Phoenix Project, I was amazed at how much technological wisdom could be passed on in story form. That story, perhaps more than any...

Improving Project Estimates is all About Direction

The following content is based on the whitepaper, “Bigger Than a Breadbox: 10 Tips for Better Project Estimates, Part 1,” written by Jerry Manas. Are you good at directions? You know, simple things like knowing where you’re going when driving, which way you should move to avoid colliding with someone on the sidewalk, that sort...

An Executive’s Guide to Executing Faster and Increasing Productivity

“84% of executives say organizational agility is necessary to succeed in digital transformation. Yet, only 27% consider their organizations as highly agile.” – Forbes Insights/PMI When it comes to increasing productivity, start by looking at the agility of your organization. Are you able to adapt to different ways of work? This doesn’t mean asking people...

An Executive Perspective on Getting Started with Work and Resource Management

“A unified approach will enable every manager and worker to see what work should be done and what is required to achieve it, which is key to fostering not only alignment but engagement.” – Mark Smith, CEO and Chief Research Officer, Ventana Research Throughout this blog series we have: explored the obstacles and challenges C-level...

Social Mission of Project to Product

The back cover of the Project to Product book states that: “All author royalties will be donated to the P2P scholarship and not-for-profit organizations supporting diversity, women, and minorities in technology”.  This post provides a short summary into why I decided to do this, and why I think this mission is important and aligned with...