The Secret Ingredients of a Successful Distributed Team
, Tuesday, January 18, 2011
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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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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.
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.
Mistake #4: Turning from a project leader into a project secretary
The spring turns out to be very busy this year. We have a lot going on in the development of our 
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).
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.
