Work Management for Teams

In today’s project-driven, 24/7 economy, collaborating is a way of life. Typically, modern teams, work with people both inside and outside the company and across the globe to meet deadlines and complete projects on time. Our work collaboration blog category shows you what to look for in a project/work collaboration solution to effectively execute projects and manage teams, tasks, and deadlines. Whether on a team of 5 or 25, learn how to use the best tools when trying to set goals, create a plan, track progress, share documents, and monitor progress. We can help you look for adaptable solutions that are closely related to enterprise social networking platforms.

Us vs. Them: The IT/Business Divide

I’ve worked in many organizations where the IT and business sides of the house just can’t seem to get along — a phenomena I refer to as the “IT/business divide.” If you’re unsure whether there’s a divide in your organization, ask yourself when IT is brought into the decision-making process. Most businesses bring IT in...

How Integrating Zendesk with Planview AgilePlace Changed Customer Support

My name is Andy Hoover and I manage our Customer Support operations here at Planview AgilePlace. I spend my time making sure our amazing team of support agents has the tools, training and processes in place to help our customers with any questions or problems they run into when using Planview AgilePlace. In this post, I’ll...

Winning Together: Measuring DevOps Success with Software Lifecycle Analytics

Like many of you, a number of our customers are undergoing DevOps transformations in order to decrease the time it takes for them to deliver value to their customers. While it seems like everyone is “doing DevOps” these days, there’s not really a standard definition of what that means. At Tasktop, we take the big...

Horse Phone and Unicode at Tasktop

Horse Phone ♞☎, a Tasktop meme that has significance far beyond its unassuming appearance. A few lucky people have seen glimpses of this rare beast in demos at Tasktop – but what does it mean? Horse Phone ♞☎ is the tip of the proverbial unicode testing iceberg for Tasktop’s connectors. Our approach to testing integrations,...

Service Startup and Docker Compose

We make extensive use of Docker and Docker Compose at Tasktop for building, testing and deploying our products. One of the pain points that we run in to is services that fail to start when other services are not available – for example a web app that fails to start unless the database is already...

FAQ: How Do I Use Board Filters?

My name is Ryan MacGillis, and I’m a Customer Support Specialist here at Planview AgilePlace. A lot of the questions we receive are from people who want to get the most out of Planview AgilePlace’s features — that’s where I come in. Periodically, I’ll be blogging about some of the most frequently asked questions I...

Productivity Hacks for Project Managers with App Integrations

It’s high time for your apps to start collaborate – here are some brand new out-of-the-box productivity hacks for ProjectPlace users thanks to the integration platform Zapier. The benefit of project management software integration is that it enables apps that are crucial for you, to share data and trigger different actions. It automates reoccurring and manual...

Lean: It’s About Pulling Together

What Lean Teams Can Learn from Crew I was working on a conference presentation the other day and found a picture of a crew team. It reminded me of a similar picture our marketing team has used on the Planview AgilePlace website, and how well that metaphor fits both Lean and me personally. I was in...

Getting Started with Agile Marketing and Project Collaboration

It’s never easy getting team buy-in for changing the way you work. Marketing teams have a never-ceasing workload, it’s hard to wrap your brain around new processes – even if it means more flexibility to adjust priorities on a daily basis. But agile marketing and project collaboration are worth the effort. In Parts 1 and 2...

Daily Kanban Standup: Is Your Team Ready for the Next Evolution?

As an Accredited Kanban Trainer (AKT) and coach, I work with teams every day who are evolving their understanding of Kanban as well as the level of maturity at which their teams practice it. One of the most frequent questions I hear from the teams with whom I work is: Do daily standups really need to...