The Changing Role of the Social Project Manager – Part 1

The project management 2.0 movement sought to eliminate the role of the project manager completely, replacing centralized management of projects with a sort of egalitarian utopian vision for co-management. What project management 2.0 could not do, project managers themselves will do if they ignore the social wave in project management. The business process landscape is changing, […]

The NYT weighs in on Social Business Software

Well, now that the newspaper of record, the NY Times, has weighed in on social software, we can now say that social software inside the firewall is mainstream. The article, unfortunately, is very shallow, and only serves to reinforce stereotypes about social business. First, the article focuses most of its attention on Salesforce Chatter, which, while […]

The Next Big Thing in Social Business Software…

Alistair Rennie (General Manager, IBM Collaboration Solutions) was interviewed recently on Forbes, and was asked several questions about the future of social software. One of the questions he was asked was “What is the next big thing in Social Business software?” Alistair mentioned the drive to incorporate social into the process of business. This is a welcome […]

ProjExec featured on Luis Benitez’ Blog

ProjExec 5.0, which delivers Social Project Management to the IBM enterprise customer, was featured last week on Luis Benitez’ “Socialize Me” blog. Luiz calls out some of the cool features about projexec, including the activity stream, and the widget for Lotus Notes users. For full information about ProjExec, check out the Trilog Group website.

Social Software and Productivity

There is a lot of buzz about the potential productivity gains of social software. Luiz Benitez tweeted a link to an article on The Province, which described a variety of situations where social software like IBM Connections was leading to perceived productivity gains. The examples cited in the article noted the increate in productivity that […]

ProjExec 5.0 reviewed on the AppGap Blog

Please see the review of ProjExec 5.0 on Bill Ives’ TheAppGap Blog. Bill focuses on the integration of ProjExec with the IBM collaboration stack. This is a key concept of social project management and social business software in general. Technology-enabled business contexts must stop being islands. With social business platforms and open standards for activity […]

Peer-to-Project Communication: What if the Project Itself was a Member of the project?

Social Project Management introduces the concept of “peer-to-project” communication, which we explored in a previous post. Peer-to-project communication starts with the idea that the project is an entity that can be communicated with, and an entity that can communicate back. With Social Project Management, this is the reality. For example, let’s look at Facebook. When […]

And now, a word from our sponsors…

As we mentioned in our first post, the project wall blog is sponsored by Trilog Group. For those of you who are IBM customers, running Domino, Quickr (Domino or J), Websphere, or Lotus Connections, Trilog Group’s ProjExec 5.0 is the Social Project Management platform that is designed to work seamlessly with whichever part of the […]

Developing Peer-to-Project Communication with Social Project Management

Communications planning on projects takes up a major part of the PMBOK. Because traditional project management is based upon a philosophy of control, project managers are advised to develop and maintain a detailed project communications plan, with important formal communications defined and agreed to by project stakeholders. Having been involved in scores of projects as […]

Project Management 2.0 – Was it really about Project Management?

In response to project management challenges, project teams have turned to technology to attempt to reduce the costs of collaboration.  The most visible recent development in technology-enabled project collaboration is the movement called “Project Management 2.0”.  Project Management 2.0 has been defined in a number of ways, but the basic definition given is that Project […]