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.

The New School of Information Security: Lean Perspectives

Hello, my name is Tyler Welton. I am a Security Engineer at Planview AgilePlace and I love it. I spend a large portion of my time fulfilling both defensive and offensive security duties for our web application, infrastructure and security culture. Information security is hard. Providing good security is even harder. Agile development methodology and...

Announcing the Tasktop DevOps Integration Hub

Some of the most interesting problems in technology only surface at scale.  For the past few years, the majority of Tasktop’s customers have been using Sync to achieve scaled Agile. Without tool chain integration, it is impossible to get hundreds or thousands of IT staff adopting enterprise Agile methodologies such as SAFe, DAD, Scrum.org’s Nexus...

Kanban Essentials for IT Ops

Is your team under constant pressure to meet delivery dates and increase efficiency? Watch this webinar to find out how Kanban can help you get a handle on your volume of work by unhiding it and improving your flow. About this Webinar In this webinar, Brendan Wovchko of HUGE I/O explains how Kanban gives you...

Scaled Agile, Lean, and the Journey to Scaled DevOps

This week, Tasktop announced its latest innovation in software lifecycle integration. We’ve added a whole new integration capability to our portfolio that enables DevOps practices to scale to the rest of the Connected Software Lifecycle.  What this means to our customers is that they finally have the DevOps Integration Hub needed to scale DevOps transformations...

Software Development Productivity From The Perspective Of Developers

If Isaac Newton were alive today, we might have the Newtonian laws of software development: For every increase in our ability to construct complex software, there shall be an equal increase in the demand for even more complex software. One solution to keeping up with this increased demand might be to apply artificial intelligence techniques...

Software Lifecycle Architecture Diagrams

This Thursday, I have the opportunity to present at IBM Interconnect.  Along with the opportunity to present comes the “opportunity” to staff the Tasktop booth all week (Booth #784 in the DevOps Zone).  I decided to do something different this year…  Over the past 5 years, the Pre-Sales Engineering team at Tasktop has created 100s...

Exploring Planview AgilePlace APIs with Postman

There’s a wealth of information available to every Planview AgilePlace user through the use of the Planview AgilePlace Application Programming Interface (API). The API can be used to extract status information for a custom report, automate routine tasks such as moving or updating a card, synchronize data with another system, and many other useful tasks. However,...

What’s New: Connect Your Cards on the Same Board

You can now connect interdependent work items on the same Planview AgilePlace board. This helps teams break down work so they can deliver value in smaller, faster increments — without losing sight of the bigger picture. You can decompose your work as granularly as you need. Agile teams, for example, may use epics, stories and tasks,...

The Misaligned Middle: Getting IT Managers On Board with Change

People are talking about the misaligned middle. How can it be that executives understand the value of emerging practices in IT Operations, such as Lean and DevOps, and individual contributors in the trenches get it, but the middle managers just don’t seem to? Are they unaware? Stubborn? Is it learned helplessness? Sandwiched between leadership and individual contributors,...

Synchronizing Your Artifacts Is Good, But Organizing Them Is Better

Imagine this scenario. All the fields from all the artifacts in one system synchronize to your other tool, but you’re responsible for reconstituting each artifact. You have to collect all the comments, statuses and attachments for each Story, Task and Requirement and put them back together. Sounds horrific, right? That’s because the relationship between the...