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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.
As citizens and taxpayers, I’m sure we all like to see our governments working to become more efficient and effective. And here at Planview AgilePlace, we’re obviously pretty bought-in to the idea that applying Lean-Agile to an organization’s operations can bring dramatic productivity improvements. So, we’ve been excited this past year to see strong signs that people...
Some of the best project managers seem to have an uncanny sense of what needs to be completed by whom. If you sit in a meeting with these types, they instantly recall what activities those in the room are performing, what questions need answering, and what next steps are required. Whether interacting with individuals or...
Introduction by Planview AgilePlace COO Jon Terry We know — we geek out a lot about people using us for construction, or manufacturing, or logistics, or auto repair, or talent management or whatever. Our business at Planview AgilePlace really has spread quite a bit beyond our software development management roots by now. But, we still recognize that our...
Well, we finally did it. Planview AgilePlace now has file attachments. When we first started out, our corporate clients were a little leery of this whole SaaS thingy. They weren’t too sure if they liked their sticky notes being online instead of being on a wall, safely in the office. But they told us they definitely didn’t...
(See also this article’s translation to Serbo-Croatian language by Vera Djuraskovic at http://science.webhostinggeeks.com/tasktop-blog) I joined Tasktop in part because I share the goal of increasing programmer productivity, especially by filtering out unimportant information. I also liked how Tasktop is committed to being involved with and connected to the broader Eclipse community. In this spirit, I...
Guest post: Troy Magennis of Focused Objective As long-time IT professionals ourselves, we at Planview AgilePlace understand the pain of being asked for detailed estimates about things we’ve never done and may never do. An awful lot of time gets wasted building detailed plans that end up bearing no relation to reality. The idea of...
While seemingly rather simplistic, the below three questions call for some critical thinking and decision making as a project is initiated. Let’s review each in detail: What does success look like? Many project managers fail to ask this most basic of questions, and may even be smirking a bit that one would suggest asking what...
Introduction by Planview AgilePlace COO Jon Terry One of our New Year’s resolutions at Planview AgilePlace is to do a better job of sharing ideas for effectively using Kanban with our customers. We pick up some pretty good ideas from working with customers, and we promise that we’ll be working some of those into blog posts from...
Happy New Year! Consider them a belated Christmas present or just a great way to start 2012, but either way, we’ve deployed a few new features for Planview AgilePlace. First and foremost, Professional Edition users can now add comments to their cards by replying to system-generated notification e-mails. So, if someone assigns you a card, adds a comment in...
As we mentioned in an earlier post, our customers have integrated Planview AgilePlace with many different kinds of systems. And we provide services to develop integrations if you don’t have the time or inclination to do this yourself. But, if you do want to develop your own integration, read this article about our API in the Planview AgilePlace Knowledge...
