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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.
Throughout this Project to Product series I’ve explored how we need to bring the same rigor to architecting our software delivery value streams as what we’re witnessing in advanced manufacturing plants. Once we agree on what flows, we can analyze those flows to identify bottlenecks and opportunities to remove them. However, every time I’ve asked...
In business, as in science, we are bound by basic principles that are immutable. Among them, there’s the notion that nothing is free. In physics it’s known as the law of conservation of energy; in business it’s known by the adage, time is money. Actively managing your application portfolio is a discipline vital to your...
Last month the entire Tasktop Customer Success team met in Las Vegas ahead of DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018 for our annual face-to-face. During the meeting I had the opportunity to present Tasktop’s own journey into Value Stream Management and the Flow Framework™. There were some great discussions around gathering data and measuring both flow time and lead...
UK businesses are being encouraged to engage better with both their staff and investors through a new corporate governance code of conduct which has been introduced by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC). This has followed some high-profile corporate governance disasters including at Royal Bank of Scotland which required a major government bailout, and more recently...
In the words of our CEO Greg Gilmore, “Planview does not happen without our customers.” And this is true across all areas of the business, including Horizons. Now, in its 21st year, Planview Horizons—the Planview Customer Conference—was held October 10-12 at the JW Marriot in downtown Austin, Texas. We had more than 600 attendees come...
To learn more about what works and what doesn’t in large-scale DevOps and agile deployments, we need data. The problem is, that data is notoriously difficult to get ahold of because much of it lies hidden across numerous private repositories. Efforts such as The State of DevOps reports have helped us gain some understanding by...
“Great people make companies great, and a huge part of any company’s culture is its diversity across a wide array of factors…You need to hire people who compliment your weaknesses, not just those who mirror your strengths.” – Greg Gilmore, CEO, Planview[1] If there’s one thing Greg Gilmore knows, it’s that his employees matter. It’s...
In his opening remarks to the Las Vegas iteration of DevOps Enterprise Summit 2018, Gene Kim set the tone for Day One by providing an alternative definition of DevOps via Jonathan Smart (formerly of Barclays): “Better Value Faster, Safer, Happier.” At the London show in June, Jonathan expanded on that by extolling the pressing need...
2018 marks the eleventh year Planview has participated in the American Heart Association’s Austin Heart Walk, and I am thrilled to be one of our team captains this year—for the leading team no less. (My team rocks!) Here at Planview, we go all-out in making this fundraiser a fun competition, to see which team can raise...
If you’re managing work using an agile approach, it can be challenging to keep resources focused on the right projects that are best for the business. As your teams execute work, you need to ensure they are delivering maximum value in support of business objectives. When organizations are looking to begin agile portfolio management, it...
