The Secret Ingredients of a Successful Distributed Team

Andrew Filev , Tuesday, January 18, 2011 comment Comments (7)
Recently, I really enjoyed my time attending Net:Work, a new conference that was presented in San Francisco by GigaOM. The event evolved around the topic of remote collaboration, or as the organizers described it, the opportunities that new technologies “have created for connecting work and workers.” Infrastructure changes, the impact of the cloud, “mobilocracy” – those are just a few trends in the wide range that the speakers covered. There’s no doubt that today’s workplace is not what it used to be several years ago. In the modern creative economy, work extends the boundaries of a traditional office, and it has also become quite common for peers to be spread across several cities, countries and cultures. But how can we ensure that remote collaboration is efficient in such an environment? Is there any solution that would work for all companies? In this post, I’ll share my ideas on this topic.
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Interview with Lazy Project Manager

Andrew Filev , Monday, September 27, 2010 comment Comments (2)
Recently, Dave Garett, the founder of the well-known project management community, GanttHead.com invited me to take part in a collaborative project of creating a book. The book is called "Project Pain Reliever" and it is a collection of chapters by experts in various fields of project management aimed at helping those, who just start their project management journey. Each chapter represents a real life problem that you may be facing today and offers a solution, written in plain English. In my opinion, this book is what many project managers today are looking for when they have questions that PMBOK cannot really answer. The book is going through the editorial and publishing process and I will definitely tell you more about it, as soon as it comes out.

Working on this collaborative project was a very valuable experience for me, as I met lots of interesting people, who have profound expertise in project management. Today I want to introduce you to one of them, Peter Taylor, also known as "the Lazy Project Manager". Peter is a dynamic and commercially astute professional who has achieved notable success in Project Management; currently as head of a PMO at Siemens Industry Software Limited, a supplier of global product lifecycle management solutions. He is also very interested in maintaining a good work/life balance. Peter has very impressive project management background, which also allowed him to come up with his own methodology that helps project managers become more productive. Read our conversation below and find out how lazy project managers can be efficient.
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Microblogging in Project Management 2.0

Andrew Filev , Thursday, July 01, 2010 comment Comments (7)
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 1)

Andrew Filev , Monday, March 22, 2010 comment Comments (12)
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 (4)
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

Andrew Filev is an experienced project manager and a successful entrepreneur. He has been managing software teams since 2001 with the help of new-generation collaboration and management applications. The Project Management 2.0 blog reflects his views on changes going on in contemporary project management, thanks to the influence of collaborative web-based technologies. More >>

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