Visualize Project Initiatives in Our New Board View
Meisterplan is excited to announce a new Kanban-style Board view designed to help organizations better manage new project initiatives.
From Anticipation to Agile Decision-Making
Agile business principles allow organizations to quickly adapt to changes in markets, consumer demands and greater economic forces.
How to Make an Agile Plan for 2021
If 2020 has taught businesses anything, it’s that being able to quickly adapt is crucial. Here's how to make an agile plan that gives you direction while maintaining adaptability.
Aligning Projects to Corporate Goals with a Roadmap
Your project portfolio tells a story. Your company goals also tell a story. The question is: does your portfolio and corporate goals tell the same story?
The Changing Makeup of Teams
The makeup of teams is always in flux and one recent trend has risen above the rest to change the composition of teams. We’re talking about the Subject Matter Expert.
Take the Chaos out of Collecting New Project Ideas
To get the most out of your new project proposals and make sure no idea slips through the cracks, follow these four best practices for project intake.
How Businesses Can Quickly Adapt Their Plans During Changing Times
There is virtually no corner of the world that is not affected by COVID-19 in some way. In order to create a path forward, you will need to lay a new foundation and answer a few important questions.
Stop Stressing Over Unrealistic Project Deadlines
Your team missed another project deadline, but that’s not a surprise for you. You knew the project plan wasn’t realistic. Many factors were overlooked including other projects being worked on simultaneously, planned vacation and everyday business that takes time away from projects. The problem is that the people setting the project timelines don’t have a clear picture of all of those factors.
Success Is in the Eye of the Beholder, or Is It? Defining Project Portfolio Success
Success is a little bit like a unicorn. Everyone wants it, but it seems like an impossible dream. In search of this unicorn, people go to great lengths and if their search turns up nothing, they label themselves and their work a failure. This is a huge mistake in the way we think about success and failure. The problem is that we define success too narrowly and failure too broadly. This is especially true for how most people determine the success of their project portfolio. To really understand the true success of projects and your whole project portfolio, you should remember the old adage, “success is in the eye of the beholder.”