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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.
From exponential complexity to smooth user experience Are you looking to solve hard problems? We got them. Our mission is is to make software delivery and DevOps a whole lot easier and effective through seamless integration of the critical information systems used in software delivery. Though the systems are many and the combinations exponential: we...
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...
The job role, “Project Manager” has a dual meaning. Not only is there the obvious definition of ‘someone who plans, procures and executes a project’ but in the vast majority of cases, it also denotes someone who manages a project team. Managing a team, who may be a disparate group of employees spread far and...
Here at Tasktop we really like industry standards. It’s important for us to use well known tools and frameworks to make transitions between teams easier. When it comes to creating a REST API there is no way around JAX-RS in the Java world. But JAX-RS (or one of it’s implementations) is not a full server...
It’s that time of year when thousands of people converge in downtown Austin to take in the interactive, music and film fun of SXSW. Here’s what’s happening with Planview at SXSW 2016! The Projectplace team here at Planview is gearing up for these festivities taking place March 13 through 16. If you’re one of the...
Do you ever wonder about the true cost of project inefficiencies in your organization? And more importantly, what could be accomplished if the common hurdles were removed? In a recent survey of 200 U.S. based project managers: 55 percent report time is wasted! On average, respondents believe they waste seven hours per week because of...
This is written from the perspective of an Enterprise Architect tasked with enabling an organization’s effort to be more competitive by adopting Agile. The company has turned to SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) as a way of scaling Agile since initial attempts at Agile were not successful despite lots and lots of scrum master trainings. I’m...
What are Vanity Metrics? Vanity, as an adjective, means “produced as a showcase for one’s talents” — i.e., a vanity production. When we showcase our own talents, we choose what makes us look good and ignore what doesn’t. In this post, we’ll look at an IT Operations team that is caught in an interesting, though...
A common challenge we come across is that while you may want to send all data from your DevOps or Event-based tools to a database for analysis, you don’t want to have all of those same events synchronized across your software lifecycle tools. Selectively syncing the events within your DevOps tools allows you to have...
Ever wonder what you have in common with an NFL football player? Maybe more than you think if part of your workday is spent on your feet, closing deals, and problem solving with a tablet or smartphone in hand. Just like those players using sideline tablets to tweak offensive schemes, you are part of the...
