Microblogging in Project Management 2.0

Andrew Filev , Thursday, July 01, 2010 comment Comments (4)
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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5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Learn to Avoid Them (Part 5)

Andrew Filev , Sunday, May 16, 2010 comment Comments (6)


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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5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Learn to Avoid Them (Part 3)

Andrew Filev , Monday, April 12, 2010 comment Comments (5)
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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5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Learn to Avoid Them (Part 2)

Andrew Filev , Sunday, March 28, 2010 comment Comments (8)
This is the second post in the series about 5 most common mistakes people make in managing multiple projects simultaneously. Before you read this piece, please take a look at 5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Learn to Avoid Them (Part 1).
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5 Most Common Mistakes in Managing Multiple Projects: Learn to Avoid Them (Part 1)

Andrew Filev , Monday, March 22, 2010 comment Comments (7)
Have you ever wondered why some managers seem to be natural born multitaskers and run 10+ projects smoothly, when others seem to be having a hard time running multiple projects? Leading a company that offers one of the most popular project management software products on the market, I hear a lot of project management war stories and spend a lot of time analyzing the bottlenecks in project management and various ways to overcome them. During my analysis, I thought it would be a good idea to share those war stories with you to help you improve your management skills. So I’ve come up with a list of the 5 most common mistakes managers make when managing multiple projects. In addition, I accompanied them with the 5 strategies that will help you become a more productive project manager who can easily complete several projects on time and on budget. I also decided to split the list into five shorter parts, so that it would be more convenient for you to read. Here’s the first part of this series.

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The Rules of the Project: Two Strategies for Aligning Means

Andrew Filev , Wednesday, January 20, 2010 comment Comments (3)
This is a guest post by Bas de Baar, the author of Project Shrink. This article originally appeared on his blog. The ideas of this post are aligned with my personal philosophy in many ways, so I felt that you would benefit from reading it here, on the Project Management 2.0 blog.

Aligning the means between individuals, project and organization is a Herculean task for any Project Leader. The means are the rules of the project. The way things are done.

Following are two strategies that can be used to align means. To provide you with some ideas. To start the discussion.
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PMI’s New Media Council: Count Me In!

Andrew Filev , Wednesday, December 30, 2009 comment Comments (6)
I’m excited to let you know that I was invited to join a group of influential bloggers and podcasters organized by the Project Management Institute! From now on, I am honored to say that I am a member of PMI's New Media Council.

This group was launched in October 2008 to help PMI and its members understand new and emerging trends in the project management profession, especially those being discussed in new media channels: blogs, podcasts, social networks, Twitter, etc. I believe this is an outstanding initiative that will help to bridge the gap between traditional project management techniques and opportunities for enhancing collaboration on projects that are offered by the development of the Web.
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Project Management 2.0: New Definition

Andrew Filev , Sunday, November 22, 2009 comment Comments (17)
My work on several previous posts, where I tried to dig into the nature and highlight the key differentiators of Project Management 2.0, pushed me to create a fresh updated version of the definition for this new phenomenon.
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Elements Of Project Leadership

Andrew Filev , Wednesday, October 14, 2009 comment Comments (0)
This is a guest post by Bas de Baar, the author of ProjectShrink.com. This article originally appeared on his blog. The ideas of this post are aligned with my personal philosophy in many ways, so I felt that you would benefit from reading it here, on the Project Management 2.0 blog.

As a Project leader you are dumped in an organization you have never seen before. You get people assigned you don’t know. The organization prescribes methods and tools you don’t like. And of course, there are a gazillion of unwritten rules.
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Networking, Education and Project Management Resources at the PMI Global Congress

Andrew Filev , Wednesday, September 30, 2009 comment Comments (0)


In the first week of September, I started getting ready for one of the biggest project management events of the year. I expect PMI Global Congress to be a very valuable experience. Though my view of project management is not canonical and sometimes generates hot debates around it, I do believe that PMI is doing a good job at building connections between project managers and allowing them to share their experience and skills with each other. PMI events play a significant role in moving the whole industry forward, and I’m happy to take part in one of these events this October in Orlando, Florida.
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