We began our discussion of the changing role of the project manager in part one of this post; we want to develop that more fully in this post. Project Managers in the social business world should see themselves (and be seen by management) as key social facilitators of the company. While social connections are made within […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
