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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.
Teamwork and project management have changed forever. Gone are the days when the whole team was based in the same office, working nine to five, five days a week. Today’s team is often made up of a mix of remote employees, freelancers, contractors and project managers, working from different locations or even different time zones....
Do you know which cards are stuck and require attention, what’s due within the next week/month/quarter, or what cards are assigned to you? These are just a few of questions that can be answered with Planview AgilePlace’s advanced filter functionality. Upcoming filter enhancements will make it even easier for you to get a focused view of...
Setting explicit process policies is the special sauce for the successful implementation of Kanban. Yet in many ways it’s also the least understood step of The Kanban Method. For many people, the term “policies” conjures up images of employee manuals and handbooks. And let’s be honest, while these types of organizational documents are necessary, they’re not...
Single sign-on for ProjectPlace is a new and really convenient feature which liberates users from having to remember yet another username and password to log on to the ProjectPlace service. Basically, it is a user authentication process that permits a user to enter name and password once, which then allows access to multiple applications. “Cloud security...
Enhancements have been rolling in over the past few months. Here’s a rundown of some of the latest features, including: Mass card updates Auto-subscribe settings Quick card adds Mobile app improvements Update Multiple Cards at Once The new multi-select option (Ctrl/Cmd + click) allows you to update multiple cards on a board at once. Remove cards that are no longer...
One of the core practices of the Kanban Method is to make process policies explicit. This helps team members and stakeholders understand what’s expected, thereby reducing confusion and enabling greater process consistency. Until the mechanism of a process is made explicit, it can be difficult to engage in meaningful discussion about how to improve it. Without a common...
Pulling Planview AgilePlace work items into your Personal Calendar app Need to keep track of work that has due dates? You can set up a feed so that your Planview AgilePlace tasks with start and/or end dates appear in a personal calendar like your mobile phone calendar app. Subscribing to an iCal feed is equivalent...
It’s part of the product life-cycle to develop new parts of the system and retire old ones. We have, over the last few years, developed and released a new suite of planning tools in the form of: an omnipresent timeline where you can follow the progress of the project and get an overview of all the milestones...
Over the last 6 months IBM has been heavily promoting BlueMix, the IBM cloud delivery platform based on IBM’s open cloud architecture and Cloud Foundry. The platform is heavily aimed at developers, promoting the ability to rapidly deliver applications to the IBM cloud by leveraging auto provisioning, development frameworks and a very cool web IDE....
Dependencies in Plan For a long time, dependencies has been one of the most asked for product improvements from our users. When we started developing the current planning tools in ProjectPlace we thought really hard about what functionality would be most useful. Since dependencies has always been a high priority request from our users, this...
