Project Management

Micro to Macro PM: The Wiki Way

Jordan Frank
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Simple to implement and use, wikis create an environment that promotes collaboration and communication on projects of all sizes, from planning and requirements to reporting and archiving. More profoundly, wikis enable project teams to put much-needed context around their actions, and provide flexible pathways for everyone to contribute.

Anyone surfing the Internet is by now familiar with the most common wiki application Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that allows users to create, edit and link content. But well before wikis went mainstream, technical communities were employing wikis to share and update information, and today project teams are the primary users of enterprise wiki technology. Many project team members like the idea of using a wiki to “build out a site” for their product or program. Others may want one to manage requirements documentation. And most ultimately bend the wiki for blog-style status reporting, meeting agendas and other communication.
 
Enterprise wikis are platforms that can support one or more workspaces where users, depending on permissions, can post, link, read, tag and edit pages. More sophisticated wiki platforms support attachments, attachment versioning, permission-filtered search, logic-driven views to assemble an array of pages for view or export to Word or PDF formats, and notifications.
 
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