Andrew Filev
, Wednesday, January 20, 2010
 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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Andrew Filev
, Wednesday, December 30, 2009
 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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Andrew Filev
, Sunday, November 22, 2009
 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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Andrew Filev
, Wednesday, October 14, 2009
 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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Andrew Filev
, Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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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Andrew Filev
, Wednesday, April 22, 2009
In my two latest posts (about Level 5 Leadership with Project Management 2.0 here and about Leading Collective Intelligence) I wrote about leaders and leadership aspects in Project Management 2.0. Now, it’s time to discuss project teams and their transformations in the PM 2.0 reality.
Andrew Filev
, Monday, July 28, 2008
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.
Andrew Filev
, Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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
, Wednesday, April 23, 2008
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.
Andrew Filev
, Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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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