Service Providers Respond with Checkbook to Lean and Agile Demands
As more companies adopt Agile work methodologies to innovate and evolve at a faster rate, they are also embracing Lean principles to support their digital transformation. This is leading service providers in the work and resource management market to make acquisitions in order to support their clients’ ambitions.
Lean is a strategy implemented within DevOps that aims to eliminate or at least reduce non-value-added activities, thereby increasing customer value. Lean essentially helps to optimize the Scrum process within software development. Agile development uses so-called sprints to accelerate the DevOps process, typically based on two-week periods.
Texas-based Planview has just announced the acquisition of LeanKit as it makes a move into the Lean and Agile development space. One of LeanKit’s attractions was its Enterprise Kanban for Engineers solution, which will help to advance Planview’s work and resource management ambitions.
Kanban is another lean method of DevOps designed to manage and improve work across human systems. It aims to manage work by balancing demands with available capacity. By combining enterprise-class Kanban with powerful workflow and collaboration capabilities, LeanKit helps those working in application development, DevOps and IT operations. It supports the leveraging of Lean principles and scale agility across enterprises.
Planview says that LeanKit’s solution will help it to serve engineers and technical professionals at the heart of the digital transformation movement disrupting many industries.
“In today’s hypercompetitive, digitally-driven environment, more and more companies are looking to leverage Lean and Agile to increase their ability to innovate,” says Greg Gilmore, CEO of Planview.
The necessity of work and resource management for organizations requires them to structure and streamline their tasks, activities, projects and portfolios in a methodical manner, but also support Lean and Agile-based approaches.
Planview launched Planview Enterprise One in November, the first enterprise solution designed to unify a broad set of work and resource management domains, to help break down organizational silos, bring teams together and accelerate the strategy-to- delivery process.
