The Rules Have Changed

Ty is a work management evangelist; "accidental" project manager and marketing veteran with over 25 years of experience.

  ProjectsAtWork  

Social project management success is all about people — and starts with the people on the frontline. This is the new paradigm for managing project-based work.

Over the last couple of months, there has been a lot of discussion about the value of social networking tools and the role they should or shouldn't play in the project management process. I believe we are facing a paradigm shift regarding the traditional methods of communication used by project teams and the proliferation of social media networking tools. Traditional software methods for capturing project information are so inherently complex, they alienate team members and force managers to beg, cajole, and nag for status updates — while providing an incomplete story of what's happening within the project.

As project portfolio management (PPM) methodologies spread departmentally throughout the organization, one of the greatest challenges facing business leaders is a lack of voluntary team member participation in the project management process. The traditional top-down work management approach doesn't work with today's workforce, resulting in:

1.       Project information that executives don't trust

2.       An overly structured work environment that nobody likes

3.       …

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