Intake and backlog management are two of the top reasons for failed product and feature delivery. Skop.es brings the analytical and management practices to visualize, quantify, and verify and validate the delivery of the right requirements.

As enterprise IT organizations are trending towards resource management offices, they are signaling the need for improved resource management usefulness from top PPM vendors.

Workfront exemplifies the classical software paradigm of automating systematic, exacting tasks to free up users for creative work. Workfront is a resource management tool that gets integration right but underwhelms on collaborative value.

VirtoSoftware, a company that focuses on creating add-ons for SharePoint and Office 365, has introduced product that intends to bring simple resource management to your project portfolio within SharePoint. While the function looks simple on the surface, some of the pitfalls of larger portfolio suites are still a concern.

Atlassian is a top provider of software to support Agile development work management and portfolio management. Its impending acquisition of AgileCraft now provides the means to address the gap of aligning executive strategy with the delivery of Agile software solutions.

Stop thinking about backup and start thinking about data protection. Newer technologies are making it redundant.

Our project portfolio management research practice helps a lot of clients who haven’t succeeded with full-blown PPM suites like Project Server and Clarity. Meisterplan is a portfolio and resource management tool but not a full project management–time sheets–document management solution. We took it for a test drive because many of our customers are looking for this type of tool.

There is no archetypal portfolio mix that all project portfolios should strive toward.

In finance services, it can be a gut instinct to manage and track human resource time in the same manner that we manage money – track every single thing that happens. The problem occurs when we put large amounts of effort into collecting granular data that is not informing any business decision, and is not changing any functional behavior. In the financial services industry, we would call that wasteful spending.

Executive decision makers are increasingly frustrated by the lack of timeline commitment coming from Agile projects. The leaders are reclaiming their ability to do their job, which doesn’t involve writing blank checks to unmanaged software projects. This is where the Portfolio Strikes Back.

The business needs IT to deliver more projects and work orders every day. Common activity and velocity-based metrics used by application development leaders do not create confidence that IT will deliver the solutions the business needs on time. Application development leaders must develop usable metrics to measure and manage IT throughput in order to win the business’ trust.