Author: Tom

How has Project Management changed in a Web 2.0 world?

The role of a Project management in the past was to coordinate the efforts of a group of individuals working toward a common goal. This was accomplished through a variety of tools, such as teleconferencing, meetings, white board sessions, and printed project status reports. A Project Manager lived with a phone glued to his or her ear.

A Web 2.0 world didn’t change the role of project management, but it did simplify, and in most cases, increase efficiency. A project manager in a Web 2.0 world can conduct meetings via web conference, can create a common project workspace that automatically tracks changes, and can keep a record of conversations via e-mail correspondence. But additional social networking capabilities add the ability to coordinate talent around the globe to focus on a project. So while the project manager may be based in Silicon Valley, he can utilize the talent of a programmer in New York, a marketing maverick in Dallas, a graphic designer in Orlando, and other talent scattered around the world meeting in one portal.

Additionally, with increased globalization, a smart project management team can work during “normal” business owners to solidify concepts, and send the entire project to an outsourced team of MBA’S in India to continue the work, so that when they show up the next morning during “normal” work hours, the project has advanced by a day or more! A Web 2.0 world can increase productivity almost exponentially.

This ability does require a strong hand in the project management team, with superior organization skills, but all of those tools are available online as well.

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    Social Project Management

    An interesting presentation about Social Project Management by Leisa Reichelt:

    Social Project Management

    She gave this presentation at the Enterprise 2.0 conference, and her main interest is to find

    ways that we can break down monster projects into micro projects and be more iterative in the way that we work, and to work more collaboratively with teams that are made up of multiple disciplines

    I am not sure whether I would agree with all the points she makes here but I definitely like the idea of breaking down projects which was called “staged delivery” before we came to the Web 2.0 world 🙂

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    Problems in the Project Team

    Most of the team-work results in the cancellation or a delay of the project because of the disfuntionality of the team and the team leader. However, there are steps that can be taken for the effective team results:

    • Leaders and the team have to follow the right behavior.
    • Leaders have to clearly define roles and expectations right from the beginning.
    • For better communication, individual meetings with team members are very essential.
    • Understanding each other well among team members will help in creating trust, more responsibility etc., for solving problems.
    • Every team member needs to commit to the project and the team as well as the desire to improve one’s own performance.
    • Leader should set a goal, create follow-up meetings, and communitcate that deadlines have to be strictly followed.
    • The leader has to set a mission statement and to develop communication strategies for his team.
    • Young professionals should be included in a team for the better usability of mixture of ideas.

    A problem in the team project should be solved through the way of conducting productive meetings and discussions of the problem by all team members in order to find out the proper solution. Proper commitments and strategies must be applied to the whole team so that it will end up with better team results.

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