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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Project management 2.0
Analysis of how Enterprise 2.0 technologies influence project management
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Andrew Filev, Wednesday, 30 April, 2008
Social Project Management: Another Point of View
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Social Project Management
Andrew Filev, Wednesday, 23 April, 2008
How can collaboration and emergent structures do the routine job for you?
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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Andrew Filev, Tuesday, 25 March, 2008
Bridging the Three Gaps in Project Management
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Project Management
, Social Project Management
MLab Roundtable was a remarkable event. We discussed the ways to improve existing management practices and I had a chance to tell what inspired me to start working on the online project management software - Wrike. I have been managing businesses for more than 8 years now, and I know how inefficient traditional project management tools, like e-mail or Microsoft Project are. Most businesses now have three major gaps that could be easily filled up with the right tool. Read full article >
Andrew Filev, Wednesday, 05 March, 2008
Looking forward to MLab Roundtable on Evolution of Management Innovation
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Project Management
, Social Project Management
I was invited to join the MLab / McKinsey Tech Roundtable on the 7th of March in San Francisco. It’s an event organized by Management Innovation Lab, a non-profit research organization based in Palo Alto and London, focused on corporate experimentation of management innovations. I’m really looking forward to meeting the other participants of the roundtable and discussing questions about accelerating the evolution of management practices with them. I’m especially excited to participate in a discussion with recognized innovation thought leaders, Andrew McAfee, Gary Hamel and Lenny Mendonca. Read full article >
Andrew Filev, Wednesday, 27 February, 2008
Letting Users Take the Lead in Choosing their Tools Can Benefit the Whole Business
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Collaboration
, Enterprise 2.0
Recently I came across an article about how hard it can be to introduce new enterprise business intelligence technologies to a company. This article reflects an important corporate phenomenon: “mandating and forcing users to adopt a standard practice or technology will often create resistance and political backlash.” The author underlines that transforming and changing the way people do business is never easy, and she advises the heads of IT departments on the best ways to implement the changes.
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Andrew Filev, Thursday, 07 February, 2008
Top-down and Bottom-up Project Management: Leveraging the Advantages of the Two Approaches
Nowadays we can observe changes going on in management and especially project management in organizations. More and more, organizations are abandoning top-down management style. Among them are the New York Times, Tribune Co., Ernst & Young and many others. Even the world biggest corporations, such as Toyota and IBM, are trying to implement bottom-up management style elements in some of their departments. The bottom-up approach to management is becoming more and more popular. However, the discussions about the two major approaches are still hot. What is the reason for the ongoing changes in management processes? The answer to this question will be obvious when we compare the two management styles.
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Andrew Filev, Tuesday, 15 January, 2008
Definition of Project Management 2.0
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Collaboration
, Project Management
Today I would like to give a definition to the new term used by me in the title of this blog.
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Andrew Filev, Tuesday, 08 January, 2008
Why do companies choose Software as a Service?
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Enterprise 2.0
The growth of popularity of
On-demand software, or software delivered to the customer via the Internet as a service, turned out to be a revolutionary concept in the late 1990’s. Back then, it seemed unbelievable to replace the traditional on-premise software, which you have to buy and install on your computer, with a service. The situation has now changed as businesses and the software vendors serving them are serious about on-demand software delivery. Read full article >
Andrew Filev, Tuesday, 27 November, 2007
Scrum in marketing: making enterprises adaptive
Every year and even every month, new technologies, markets and competitors spring up, and today’s businesses have to be agile to be able to face the impending challenges. In such an unstable environment, traditional principles of managing product development may lead companies to failure. If the product requirements change drastically from the time the product is designed to the moment when it is released, it can result in the delivery of outdated products. Otherwise, ineffective change management processes may destroy product development, and the product will never be delivered.
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Andrew Filev, Friday, 02 November, 2007
"Open" Means "More Competitive"
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Enterprise 2.0
Enterprise 2.0 technologies make companies stronger. This is what we read in almost every analytical blog and in many business publications. More and more companies are announcing the introduction of Enterprise 2.0 technologies to their business. One of the recent examples is IBM’s Lotus Connections. It’s an enterprise-wide IT controlled social networking package, which was presented earlier this year. The company representatives called it one of the features designed to take advantage of "real-time presence and communications capabilities."
Well, even technological giants are opening up to Enterprise 2.0, having realized that it will drive corporate innovation and facilitate communication from the boardroom to employees and back. Previously closed corporations turn open with the help of new-generation software. But what are the advantages of being open? To answer this question it would be useful to examine the key differences of open and closed organizations. Read full article > |
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