Social Networking Changing Agile Project Management

 

Social networking has changed the traditional communication channels and in today’s era of tablets and smartphones. This created different ways for project managers to manage projects in an agile way, collaborate in real time and find the solutions quickly by going through the problems.

A social network is a social structure made up of a set of actors including individuals and/or organizations and the dyadic ties between these actors. The social network perspective provides a clear way of analyzing the structure of whole social entities. The study of these structures uses social network analysis to identify local and global patterns, locate influential entities and examine network dynamics.

IT has assisted marketing, administration and business operations with their implementations of social networking and various media including websites such as Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook. Now we have some ways to make social-style communications deliver value to the IT department.

Major IT work challenges continue to revolve around project management, resourcing, technical problem resolution and consultation, accuracy and timeliness of information, and the responsibility of running round-the-clock operations. This is where a social network comes in handy. It is helpful and provides opportunities such as peer-to-peer networking, quick communicating, gathering required …

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