The voting for your favorite blogs about project management, innovation and 2.0 is finally over. I received over 230 votes, and it took quite a while to summarize the results. Now that the top 10 list of blogs for project management innovators is ready, I’m happy to share it with you.

Elizabeth Harrin, the author of A Girl’s Guide to Project Management blog, and I picked a topic and exchanged guest posts, intending to bring you, our readers, some additional benefits of viewing the subject from two different angles. Please find Elizabeth’s writing below. You will find my piece at pm4girls.elizabeth-harrin.com.


It was not that long ago that a printed out Project Charter would be the start of project approval.  The key stakeholders would physically sign the document, which would be passed in the internal mail between parties, finally returning to the project manager to update the version control for the document to version 1.0.  She would then file it away for safe-keeping and proof that the initiation phase was over and that the real work could begin.

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.

I was happy to see that you enjoyed my list of 33 Selected Blogs about Innovation, Project Management and 2.0. The post got over 220 comments and still counting! Some of you also pointed me to a few excellent resources that I didn’t mention in the general list. So in this post, I’d like to add another 11 blogs for project management innovators to my initial collection.

Not so long ago, I was interviewed by Ron Holohan, MBA PMP. Ron is the author of the popular pm411.org site, which is dedicated to all the topics related to project management: tools, tips, methodologies, books, you name it. What I really like about pm411.org is that Ron tries to look at the practical side of things and pays attention how the material he blogs about can be applied to real-life projects, including his own. Another great thing about Ron's site is that the author combines blog posts and podcasts, so that many interviews are available in both written and audio formats, and you can choose the one that's most convenient for you. pm411.org should be the 34th in my Selected Blogs list. I promise to write an update on my directory, as there are some great suggestions in the comments to the post. Ron's site will definitely be in the updated blogs collection.

What project management blogs do you read? I’ve assembled a list of blogs that give me substantial food for thought when I write on innovations in project management. The list also includes blogs that serve as great sources of information about Enterprise 2.0, new management methodologies, leadership, motivation, as well as useful project management tips you can use in your day-to-day job. I hope these resources will help you take a look at your management practices from another point of view or perhaps even  push you to radical changes in the ways you manage your projects and teams. I wrote a short summary for every blog, so that it would be more convenient for you. Enjoy!

Chris Anderson builds an interesting case around the concept of the long tail of retail (The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More). I will save you the joy of reading it, and I won’t recount his whole work here. I still wanted to share an interesting story about collective intelligence from his book. Anderson writes that, today, NASA often calls on amateurs to watch for specific asteroids that might be headed for Earth. It all started when amateur astronomers helped to make observations of Supernova 1987 that led to the confirmation of a key theory explaining how the universe works.

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.

 I’m excited to announce that my blog was chosen to be in the short list for the 2009 Computer Weekly IT Blog Awards in the project management category. I’m honored that the organizers of this contest thought that Project Management 2.0 should be among the best blogs of the industry. Now comes the most competitive part where your help would be very much appreciated. If you think that Project Management 2.0 deserves a spot in the top, please go to ComputerWeekly.com and vote for this blog in the project management category.

At the PMI Global Congress that I attended in October, I met many project management practitioners. Some of them asked me about my views on Project Management 2.0. One of the questions was “How is Project Management 2.0  different from what many organizations have today?”

I decided to summarize my answers and came up with a short list of key factors that distinguish Project Management 2.0 from traditional project management.