It’s the hot button lately in project management circles. How can teams collaborate? It’s not idle chatter. It’s been apparent for a long time that a project manager’s role is not just calculating a schedule from his hidden laboratory deep in the bowels of the organization. Now a project manager is expected to spend the vast majority of his or her time working with others. They may be negotiating with the clients or recruiting new…
Project Management and communications have always gone together and the better a project manager is at communicating, the more successful they’re likely to be. With the plethora of technological assistance for communication now at hand, it’s worthwhile thinking about how to marry collaboration and project management. I take a look at that right here.
As project management tools have moved further and further from their Critical Path Scheduling roots, we’ve seen more of a focus on empowering the project management team and extending the definition of the project management team. This article talks about what to look for in collaboration tools for project management.
Project management systems have moved from analgorithmic-centric view to a collaboration-centric perspective. Here are a few things to look for in collaboration project systems.
Article: Collaborative Project Management – How to start collaborating If you’ve already decided that collaboration will be a significant element of your project management environment, here is an article that talks about how get started with your collaboration efforts.
Article: Collaborative Project Management How can collaboration impact our project management environment? We’ll look at some basic collaboration building blocks in this article.
Article: Collaboration? Who’s collaborating? When you consider the collaboration aspect of project management, it’s worthwhile to come up with a collaboration plan much as you would a communications plan for a project. Who should collaborate, how should this collaboration be facilitated and/or moderated? What should you collaborate about? We’ll look at the essentials of project collaboration in this article.