I was interviewed by Bas de Bar recently. Bas has a great blog called Project Shrink. It is a valuable source of tips, ideas and other important information for project managers. Bas is also the author of "Surprise! Now You're a Software Project Manager." Those of you who are in software development might want to have a look at it.
We had a conversation about the nature of Project Management 2.0, emergent structures, collective intelligence, project management software and my work on Wrike. It was a pretty long dialog, so Bas decided to publish it in parts. I will be glad to get your feedback on what I said there.
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Andrew Filev, Friday, 15 August, 2008
Interview with Project Shrink
Andrew Filev, Thursday, 14 August, 2008
Upcoming Project Management 2.0 Discussion
This year's Office 2.0 Conference is coming soon. I'll be part of a Project Management 2.0 panel, so if you want to ask questions in real time, you are very welcome to join the conference. Other panels and sessions also promise to be interesting.
 If you have some stories to share for the panel, leave a comment here with your contact information. I may get some discounted tickets from organizers for visitors who can bring the value to the panel. Read full article >
Andrew Filev, Monday, 28 July, 2008
Project Management Software, Mind Mapping, Weak Ties and the Human Brain
Category:
Collective Intelligence
, Collaboration
, Social Project Management
, Project Management
Tags: mind mapping, many-to-many, weak ties
I have already mentioned that many-to-many structures employed in project management 2.0 software offer a better way to organize your projects. Here is an interesting angle on the same topic.
Have you ever thought about how our mind organizes ideas? We do not organize all the information we know in one strict hierarchical tree, life is too diverse for that. Associations radiating out (or in) from many different connection points help our brain to navigate through a vast information pool and quickly make decisions. Many connections in many different directions connect items together. We could say that the structure in our mind is a network of connections or a many-to many structure. Read full article >
Andrew Filev, Wednesday, 16 July, 2008
Many-to-Many Structure Flexibility vs. Stiff One-to-Many Hierarchies
Category:
Collective Intelligence
, Collaboration
, Social Project Management
, Project Management
Tags: planning, , many-to-many
Dave Prior and Bob Tarne have recently blogged about the so-called post-modern project management with a reference to Dr. Davidson Frame. Their idea is that there are lots of methodologies available, and that in real life, there can’t be just “one true way” for managing a project. Each project is unique, and each time we need to find a new way of managing and completing it, very often mixing several methods and techniques. This is the creative part of the project manager’s job. The project manager needs to be flexible and try to view his or her project from different angles to understand which methodology he or she should apply and how to use different methods together harmoniously. Here, the right tools will be a great help. Project management software should support a manager’s flexibility, giving him or her options to look at the same project from different perspectives.
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Andrew Filev, Thursday, 05 June, 2008
Agile Software Project Management Event: The APLN Seattle Leadership Summit
The project management community is lucky to have many people who are passionate about innovations in management. If you work in software project management, you might be interested in attending The APLN (Agile Project Leadership Network) Leadership Summit. It will be held in Seattle from July 17 - 18. The Summit promises to be an interactive event, with topics including Scrum, agile program management, collaboration games and many others.
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Andrew Filev, Wednesday, 04 June, 2008
RACI Improved: Structuring Responsibilities with the Help of Project Management 2.0 Software
Category:
Collective Intelligence
, Social Project Management
, Project Management
Tags: planning, many-to-many, agile project management, emergent structures
In one of my recent posts I wrote that using project management 2.0 software helps project manager guide his team’s work, delegate some of his initial duties and allocate roles and responsibilities so that they are clear to everybody on the team. Project management 2.0 tools also let one apply some traditional methodologies of structuring responsibilities more effectively. Let’s take RACI as an example.
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Andrew Filev, Wednesday, 04 June, 2008
And the winner is...
In my previous post I encouraged all my readers to leave comments in order to compete for a free Enterprise 2.0 Conference. Now it is time to name the winner.
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Andrew Filev, Wednesday, 14 May, 2008
Free Enterprise 2.0 Conference Pass The Enterprise 2.0 Conference is coming. No doubt it will be the most exiting conference of the year in the industry. This not-to-be-missed event is organized for those who are interested in making their business more productive and competitive with the new technologies, and you have a chance to attend the conference for free! Read full article >
Andrew Filev, Wednesday, 30 April, 2008
Social Project Management: Another Point of View
Category:
Collective Intelligence
, Social Project Management
, Project Management
Tags: emergence, emergent structures
Hundreds of people are already looking forward to this year’s Enterprise 2.0 conference. One of the most interesting sessions during this conference last year was one by Leisa Reichelt. Leisa is interested in the changes going on in project management and she calls these changes Social Project Management or Project Management 2.0. At Enterprise 2.0 Conference 2007, she gave a presentation on Social Project Management, where she pointed out several distinctive features of the new wave in the project management discipline. According to Leisa, they are: small teams, motivated people, limited planning, minimal scope, small projects, rapid release, responsiveness, and iterations. Leisa noted that the essential point of her presentation was that “there are other ways to manage projects than ye olde fashioned waterfall methodology.” According to her, these ways emerge in project management due to the penetration of social software into in the enterprise.
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Andrew Filev, Wednesday, 23 April, 2008
How can collaboration and emergent structures do the routine job for you?
Category:
Collaboration
, Social Project Management
, Project Management
Tags: emergence, planning, many-to-many, emergent structures
In my previous post I wrote on gaps in efficiency of traditional project management tools. The major problem with these tools is that they are not flexible and that they do not leverage collaboration. These tools created lots of additional routine operations the project manager should perform. Many of these operations are connected with project planning and updating project plans.
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