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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.
Find out why I, co-author of The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win and The DevOps Cookbook, recommend Kanban to improve the practice of IT. I discuss how to solve common IT problems — including developer due date performance, availability, security and compliance — using DevOps patterns of work. Kanban boards appear prominently throughout the The Phoenix Project as...
Please note that Drill-Through relationships have now been renamed as Connections in Planview AgilePlace. Connections establish parent-child relationships between Planview AgilePlace Boards. These multi-level hierarchies help you track and structure your work to the right level of detail, making it easier to not only visualize high-level initiatives but also dig deeper into the implementation details. Here’s what to look for in the...
Kanban and continuous delivery are technical practices that go hand in hand. The goal of continuous delivery is to rapidly, reliably and repeatedly deliver new features and bug fixes at low risk and with minimal overhead. The goal of Kanban is to optimize the flow of work through incremental change. Both approaches share the common objective of delivering...
Last week, Tasktop had a wonderful week at IBM Innovate in Orlando. We were honored by the conference organizers who invited us to present, or co-present, in eight sessions. We were delighted to win the IBM Business Partner award for Innovation in IT Development . We’re especially proud that this was the second year in...
If you’ve ever looked at your board and wondered, “Who’s working on that?”, Planview AgilePlace can instantly show you the answer with three types of card icons: a user monogram, a custom avatar image uploaded to your Planview AgilePlace account, or an image hosted by Gravatar. The Scoop on Each of the Three Options Automatic Monogram. User monograms are automatically...
See how to modify the layout of your Planview AgilePlace board to accurately reflect your team’s process. In this short video you’ll learn how to: Add new lanes, reposition them and increase lane width to show your process Create sub-lanes for stages of work within your process Use horizontal swimlanes for parallel processes Planview AgilePlace is designed to let you build out any work...
I’m excited about returning to TechEd for the first time in 3 years. In 2011, I attended my first TechEd in Atlanta. It was an exciting time for Tasktop; we had just announced Visual Studio support for Tasktop Dev and were a couple months away from announcing Tasktop Sync, our flagship integration hub for the...
Joining Tasktop as a business analyst in September 2013, I was tasked to learn about the intricacies of the software delivery process while doing my part to help the company work toward its goal of improving that very process. While at first this seemed like an overwhelming undertaking, it turns out that Tasktop has been...
It sounds counter-intuitive, but limiting your work in process (WIP) actually improves your flow — and your team’s productivity. In this three-part series, Stephen Franklin, CIO at Planview AgilePlace, draws from experience to explain the common obstacles you’ll face when setting WIP limits, and tips for overcoming them. In part one of this blog series, I discussed why...
Planview AgilePlace Task Boards help you break down and manage the finer details of your work. Seeing each granular task as a part of your visual flow of work promotes visibility for the whole team. Group and Ungroup Work On the Fly For those, “Oops, those should’ve been grouped together…” moments, cards include a ‘Move to Taskboard’...
