WHEN A MARKETING TEAM GOES AGILE

At CA Technologies, our development organization uses the Scrum approach to accelerate new releases of products to our customers. Since much of the work our marketing team does is in support of these product launches we thought it made sense to apply Agile methodology to our marketing team as well. So, I decided to be …

OOH’S AND AAH’S FROM CA WORLD

I’m blogging this week from CA World ’13 at Mandalay Bay in fabulous Las Vegas.  It’s just the first day of the event, but I’m already hearing buzz and excitement from attendees about the upcoming release of CA ClarityTM PPM, especially with regards to the updated portfolio management capabilities revealed by Lokesh Jindal (General Manager, …

HAVE TASK – BIDS WELCOME

I have a problem. I collect recipes from magazines. Each month I get Bon Appetit, Cooking Light, Food Network Magazine, etc. and I rip out pages of recipes I’d like to make, adding them to a stack on my kitchen counter, which has now grown to about 2 feet high. I’d like a solution to …

CHOOSE YOUR PPM TOOL WISELY – HERE’S SOME HELP!

There is a saying: “you are only as good as your last performance,” and this is so true in today’s competitive business climate, where agility and speed to deliver new products and services can make the difference between a market leader and a struggling business. Through the looking glass of a shareholder, a business is …

INTEGRATED IT PORTFOLIO, I DIDN’T EVEN KNOW YOU WERE THERE!

I was having a very interesting chat with an analyst the other day about the trend towards governing previously disparate IT resources, assets, investments, projects, etc. as an integrated portfolio.  He mentioned that he had found many IT organizations were doing more than they realized in this area and called this phenomenon “accidental IIPA.” That’s …

CHAT WITH CA CLARITY PPM USER KAREN BEAUDOUIN FROM CAREFIRST

I always like to hear from our customers about what they are doing with our CA Clarity Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) solution.  Recently, I interviewed Karen Beaudouin from CareFirst. Karen also serves as the President of the CA Clarity Global User Community.  I was interested in hearing how Karen is getting value from her CA …

INNOVATION, TRANSFORMATION AND PROJECT & PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT

We’ve seen and heard from many of our large and small customers that the demand for new and innovative products and services continues to grow at an increasingly rapid pace. The everyday use of mobile devices, apps, social media, etc., has produced a consumer that is impatient when it comes to waiting for innovations to …

REAL WORLD PROJECT MANAGEMENT

I recently took part in a really well planned event and was impressed by the project management that went into making it such a success, despite some pretty serious challenges. The Girl Power Triathlon was held in New Orleans for the first time in seven years, having been cancelled as a result of the impending …

BRACING FOR IMPACT: THE CONSUMERIZATION OF IT

It’s August 27th, 2012 in New Orleans.  In two days it will be the 7th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and again we are bracing for impact. This time it’s Hurricane Isaac. There are a number of differences this time around. Most importantly, while Isaac has followed a very similar track to Katrina, it is a …

CA TECHNOLOGIES EARNS STRONG POSITIVE RATING FROM LEADING ANALYST FIRM

It’s with great pleasure that I announce that CA Technologies received a “Strong Positive” rating in the Gartner MarketScope for Project and Portfolio Software Applications*. This report is an evolution of the 2011 Gartner “MarketScope for Project and Portfolio Management Applications”. Specifically, CA Technologies received a “Strong Positive” rating, the highest rating possible. According to …