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.

Getting Things Done Guide: How to Create a Tech Strategy for Your Team

For almost every team that strives to work smarter and increase productivity, technology is part of the solution – and the problem. Research has shown that project managers recognize the need for new technology to support effective ways of working. But in reality, still only half have adopted new tools to increase productivity and save time. As...

FAQ: What Are My Options For Board User Access?

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 hear....

Agile, DevOps, Lean – What’s Your Maturity Level?

At Tasktop, we’re always looking for ways to improve your application delivery efforts. This time we have engaged Forrester Research to create the Modern Application Delivery (MAD) self-assessment tool to evaluate where your organization stands now in Agile, DevOps and Lean initiatives. In just five minutes, the assessment will help you evaluate where your organization...

How to pick dependencies from a developer’s point of view

Dependencies are an essential part of each software project. Without utilizing existing libraries the scope of a project explodes because you can’t solve every problem by yourself. Today we rely heavily on open source libraries to get the work done for us. Basically there is a library for nearly every problem and every language. But how do...

Adopting Agile Marketing Techniques [Interview]: Sprint Planning, Retrospective, SCRUM

Whether you’re trying to launch a new product or roll out a website, there’s little time to search through emails or schedule meetings to catch up on the status of projects and deliverables. The demand for better technology is no longer a nice-to-have, but a must-have in today’s increasingly connected world. Many marketing organizations are embracing...

The key to becoming a true social project manager – new book about decentralization and the future of project management

Peter Taylor, also known as The Lazy Project Manager, has been described as ‘the most entertaining and inspiring speaker in the project management world today’. Besides leading the global project management office of Kronos Inc., a software company delivering workforce management solutions, Peter Taylor has published acclaimed books about project management like the international bestseller...

Learning New Things

It’s mid-2015. Our product and platform had evolved from a pure Java application to a mixed-technology web-based solution, and I found myself realizing that I had to up my game. I’d built many web applications before. But my drive to hone my skills was coming from the company’s need to move ahead with a faster,...

Moving from a Ticket System to Agile Marketing Methods

So many marketers are struggling with trying to manage their myriad of projects, efficiently. With so many involved, communication can lack. As a marketer myself, I can relate. We have so much to accomplish, and with very high standards. Communicating with stakeholders (often remote or in different time zones) via email and managing projects on...

Metric-Driven Coaching

W. Edwards Deming said, “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” But how do you know if you’re measuring the right things? All too often teams fall prey to misleading metrics, missing invaluable opportunities to grow and improve. In this webinar, I’ll show you how to choose the right metrics to measure your team’s effectiveness and encourage the right...