Case Study: NuVasive achieves greater R&D predictability, consistency, and collaboration with Planview ProjectPlace

NuVasive Improves Predictability, Consistency, and Collaboration Across R&D With an Integrated Solution

NuVasive, a global medical device company, needed to improve predictability and consistency across R&D new product development but lacked visibility into incoming demand and resource capacity. Large projects involved more than 110 people across 30 roles, making resource management and cross‑functional collaboration difficult. To address this, NuVasive adopted Planview ProjectPlace (integrated with Microsoft Power BI) to centralize planning and reporting.

By integrating Planview ProjectPlace with Power BI, NuVasive created a single source of truth for planning, assigning work, tracking progress, and automated reporting. Using Planview ProjectPlace Kanban boards, templates, labels and tags, the company eliminated time‑intensive manual reporting, gained real‑time dashboards for executives, improved resource modeling and demand forecasting (supporting hiring decisions), and increased product launch predictability, consistency, and team collaboration.

NuVasive

Travis Dickerson

Project Manager