Social Project Management Tips

Peter Taylor is the author of best-selling books on Productive Laziness, The Lazy Winner and The Lazy Project Manager and is a professional speaker. He is also the head of a global PMO for a billion-dollar software business.

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Based on what we have explored throughout The Social Project Manager, the following is a list of the social project management tips we have uncovered to help you on your way to becoming a better manager of social projects.

1. You cannot create a social world on your own. Project managers know what is expected of them, they want to do a great job and they want to remove the inefficient practices they have to work with (around) each day. And yet change to a more efficient social world takes time and effort as well. The same is (mostly) true of a project manager’s team members, so there is a good foundation for learning and evolving the best use of social tools.

Your team can help you become a better social project manager. The key here is that social project management success cannot come about purely from you the project manager. You can certainly offer up a vision of a more social world and you can most certainly describe the value that this would bring about for you, for the project and for the project team, as well as for your organization. But you cannot create a social project world as an individual—it just doesn’t work that way. You need to involve others, and your team can—and must—help you become a better social project manager.

2. “Structured” and “social” are not enemies. Social project management is based …

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