Social Project Management

  Communications Management   ProjectsAtWork  

Engaging the Social Network to Deliver Project Success.

Project teams today face increasing pressure to perform, while they at the same time face significant obstacles to that performance. Because of the distributed nature of teams, highly volatile environments, and market pressures, project managers are faced with a dilemma – How do I increase the collaborative capabilities and maximize performance of my team while still maintaining control and oversight?

Project Management 2.0, the use of Web 2.0 technologies to enhance project collaboration and coordination, assisted greatly in enabling teams, especially virtual teams, to collaborate and share information. However, these tools, such as wikis, blogs, online file sharing, while enabling participation and automation, did not assist the project manager in the management of the core project management process, and in many ways made the work of the project manager more difficult.

Social Project Management goes far beyond Project Management 2.0 by recognizing that project teams are only part of the project community, and that a broader project community exists, which is both formal, and informal, and that the engagement of that community is the key to building trust and knowledge, to applying expertise, and to getting things done.

Social Project Management builds on the gains made by Project Management 2.0 by …

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