SPM & LPM – What’s in a Letter?

Strategic portfolio management (SPM) is becoming a well-established discipline in leading organizations. The reason for this is that it works, especially when supported by a world-class software solut...

Strategic Portfolio Management Vancouver release - deliver initiatives that provide value

Change is constant. Companies struggle to keep up with changing priorities and balance current work with incoming demand. As priorities shift, companies lack the visibility to make data-driven decisio...

Last Thursdays with SPM: New Resource Management Capabilities

As promised in our June Last Thursdays with SPM session (Resource Management - Benefits and Best Practices), our August webinar showcased new resource management features with Erin Roberts, Senior Sol...

Why teams love the project to product movement

For work teams, the transition from project-based work to product-based work has a number of significant advantages, the most obvious of which is that it offers stability. Teams are assigned to a prod...

Digital products – consistent value delivery

In today’s world, software applications can be managed at a lightning-fast pace. DevOps and continuous delivery can virtually eliminate any delays between application completion and delivery, allowing...

Leveraging OKRs For Digital Transformation Success

Digital transformations require focus and discipline to implement them successfully, and they are more likely to fail than succeed, according to Gartner who predicts that "by 2025, 70% of digital inve...

Why Hybrid Matters to Leadership

If you ask most business leaders how they expect a particular piece of work to be completed, they likely won’t have a strong opinion. Whether something is delivered using a waterfall project or an agi...

Last Thursdays with SPM: Digital Transformation with SAFe LPM

Our July Last Thursdays with SPM webinar featured Agile Evangelist, Fred Champlain, who led an engaging conversation with Debbra McGrath on the use of SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) to manage di...

Waterfall or Agile? How about Both?

Most organizations conduct at least some of their projects using both agile and waterfall techniques. Others haven’t yet committed to widespread use of agile, but they are at least using it in some of...

From AI Experiment to AI Strategy: Unlock Full Potential for the Enterprise with Strategy Execution

What's the easiest way to start with Gen AI? Many organisations start by experimenting. They set up incubation teams to experiment and monitor industry learnings, develop art-of-the-possible and share...

Last Thursdays with SPM: Resource Management

Coming off the tail of an exciting Knowledge 2023, June’s session of Last Thursdays with SPM featured Erin Roberts, Senior Solution Consultant, who delivered a comprehensive overview of Resource Manag...

Strategy Without Execution Has No Value

In the last blog we looked at the idea of scaling agile to more strategic levels of the organization and discussed the benefit that business capabilities and value streams can bring. Not only does a v...

Change - And How to Embrace It

The cliché that the only constant is change could have been invented for today’s business environment. Continuously emerging technologies, global competition, ever expanding customer expectations, and...

The Importance of PMO Integration

In most organizations, there are multiple project management offices or PMOs. That may be as simple as individual PMO functions in different business areas – IT, product development, and so on. But in...