Andrew Filev
, Wednesday, September 01, 2010
 In my previous post about the problem of telling what’s important on a project, I promised to share some thoughts and tips on how standard project management methodologies, particularly the critical path method, can facilitate your planning efficiency when applied to a project creatively. But first of all, it is worth discussing what the critical path method (CPM) is all about.
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Andrew Filev
, Tuesday, August 24, 2010
 You’ve read and heard it so many times: “Efficient project planning is vital for your project’s success.” However, when you’re dealing with a complex project, building an effective project schedule may be really hard, to say the least.
You have to first create a long list of tasks that should be completed to deliver the project, then assign team members to these tasks and also make sure you pay special attention to tasks that are critical for project success. Very often, identifying the tasks that need special attention turns out to be the trickiest part of the planning job. Another big challenge may be to differentiate between the tasks that should be completed first and assignments that can be delayed without delaying the whole project.
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Andrew Filev
, Thursday, July 01, 2010
 A new tool came to our lives and greatly influenced the way we communicate. Twitter turned out to be next big thing of the social media world, and it looks like it’s here to stay. How can we explain Twitter’s immense popularity? Simplicity, convenience, speed? I’d say it’s all three of them that make the tool so sticky. In fact these factors even made many of us seek a similar tool to facilitate our project communications.
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Andrew Filev
, Monday, June 07, 2010
 Last month, Business Computing World, a blog focused on business technology, published a list of the 10 best project management blogs. The author of the post, Heather Buckley, is the director and co-founder of a British IT and business training provider, Silicon Beach Training. She picked bloggers who offer something unique and engaging on project management topics. It’s nice to see my Project Management 2.0 blog on the list! The abstract provided in the post is right to the point:
“As the name suggests, Andrew focuses on changes in contemporary project management thanks to collaborative and real-time digital technologies. For anyone interested in how to use the Social Internet or wanting to read up on the way project management is adapting, this is the place to head”.
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Andrew Filev
, Sunday, May 16, 2010
Mistake #5: Poor interactions within your team and with clients
The last, but not least, most common mistake project managers make when managing multiple projects is inefficient communications. Poor communications within a team lead to misunderstandings and therefore to mistakes in project work. If your project lacks communication with clients, you and your client might end up with two different project visions as a result. In any case, miscommunication will result in loss of time and money, as well as in increasing your stress.
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Andrew Filev
, Friday, April 30, 2010
 Mistake #4: Turning from a project leader into a project secretary
Now, if you want to get the up-to-date information ( winning strategy #2) all in one place ( winning strategy #3), you are prone to mistake#4: turning into a robot, constantly copying information back and forth.
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Andrew Filev
, Sunday, April 25, 2010
 The spring turns out to be very busy this year. We have a lot going on in the development of our project management software, Wrike. In addition to that, I was invited to contribute to a couple of authoritative project management resources, such as Projects@Work and the ICPM, as well as to speak at a few events. I already wrote about my session at the SV PCamp. Another one was the PMI Monterey Chapter meeting, where I gave a talk on the use of various Web 2.0 technologies in project management.
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Andrew Filev
, Monday, April 19, 2010
 Last month, I gave a talk at Silicon Valley Product Camp 2010. This is the world's largest free and “unconference-style” event attracting product managers from various industries. This time, the one-day gathering was attended by more than 550 product managers. The real beauty of this event is that PCamp participants do not merely listen to lectures, but are encouraged to actively participate in the conversation, ask questions and share their tips and knowledge. In addition, visitors are invited to suggest their own topics for discussion.
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Andrew Filev
, Monday, April 12, 2010
 It’s great to see that my series about 5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects turned out so popular. I got a number of requests to keep on posting. So please welcome the third part of the series. If you misses the first or the second part of the sequence please make sure to check them out.
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Andrew Filev
, Monday, April 05, 2010
I met Phil Simon, the author of "Why New Systems Fail: An Insider's Guide to Successful IT Projects" about a month ago. He told me that he was working on a new book that will be focused on Enterprise 2.0, cloud computing, SaaS and other next-generation technologies that are much talked about, but are not yet understood by everyone in the corporate environment. I found the idea appealing and thought that it would be valuable for you to get to know Phil’s point of view on these popular topics here at the Project Management 2.0 blog. Later on, I plan to review Andrew McAfee’s “Enterprise 2.0: New Collaborative Tools for Your Organization's Toughest Challenges ” in this blog, so it will be even more interesting to compare the two viewpoints.
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