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Email, Twitter, and Social Networking the Basis of PM 2.0 - Yea Right

Twitter, email, Facebook and productivity killers. From I Love Charts. All this PM 2.0 stuff will eventually catch up with the notion of physical progress to the plan, measured on tangible evidence. Read more →

The Perfect PM 2.0 / Web 2.0 Plan

Just like the underpants gnomes PM 2.0 has the Unicorns to help produce the beneficial outcomes Read more →

Task Dependencies

Project Management Tips has a contributor, Dana Larson, who posted about features needed in Project Management Software. These include: Collaboration Task Scheduling Multiple-Level Organization File Storage and Sharing Time Tracking and Reporting Collaboration There are numerous ways to collaborate, many... Read more →

Web Technologies and their actual impacts

The notion of Web 2.0, PM 2.0 and web technologies in general having positive impacts on organizations and especially projects is a popular discussion topic. Ranging from blatant marketing hype, to somewhat dubious web surveys, to actual refereed journal articles,... Read more →

Basic Rules of Managing Projects and PM 2.0

There are 1000's of rules for managing projects. I've collected many over the past 3 decades of managing projects. I came across a web site that has important things to say about project and program management. Altis is the site... Read more →

Using Social Media to Help Manage Projects?

Ryan Enders has a post about using Social Media to help manage projects. Notice "help." Ryan mentions what social media is being used in an article in PMI's PM Magazine. The referenced McKinsey study claims: 69% of respondents reported "gains... Read more →

Communicating with a Tuna Fish Cans and String

Geoff Crane of Paper Cut Project Monitoring described his TwitterView with Jhaymee Wilson. I had not heard of a "TwitterView" before this. It seems to be an interview over Twitter. I've been interviewed twice this year (2010), once by PMI... Read more →

PM 2.0 Post

I was interviewed a few weeks ago - out of the blue - by Herman Mehling. Outside the myriad of Journal papers and an upcoming PMI article, this is the first time this has happened to me. Here's the words... Read more →

The Real Web 2.0

While the notion of PM 2.0 is still bouncing around, Web 2.0 impacts on procurement in the Pentagon is the title of an article in the current edition of Defense AT&L. "Defense Acquisition Enterprise 2.0," speaks to the use of... Read more →

Is This Really How PM 1.0 Works?

Once again Andrew Filev - through Elizabeth Harrin - has a description of PM 1.0 straight out of the 1980's. This little story of how projects are chartered and then managed is reminisent of how projects were chartered and managed... Read more →

What is a Project Plan?

I'm working two programs in parallel - a really bad idea by the way. One is a DOE R&D project. The other is a DoD integrated battle management system. Working in these domains produces a bias towards what is means... Read more →

PM 2.0 Communications Channel Bandwidth Requirements

What happened to the agile manifesto's first statement? We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: 1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.... Read more →

A Cautionary Note

The history of our future is filled with... moon bases jet packs 200 mph cars but has no... cell phones, Internet, and no laptop computers Over the long haul, dramatic things happen to change the equation. Sunil Paul, quoted in... Read more →

A $75 Solution to PM 2.0?

While responding to a post on Herding Cats, I came across a $75 Outlook based PM tool MissingLink Project Management So minus the software interpreted process of Andrew's tool, what's the difference here? Outlook is ubiquitous, possibly on every desktop... Read more →

The Real PM 2.0

Working to determine the Ordinal Risk Ranking (Borda) for a flying machine IMP/IMS for a client. Came across some needed attributes of a collaborative project management environment. For example Project Management – Coordinating budgets, personnel, schedule, and products to meet... Read more →

Stop Tweeting and Start Managing

Projects are not managed through email, twitter, or IM. Project Management is about people talking face to face. Can't do face-to-face. I understand. We work programs that have dispersed teams. It's part of the modern world. The teams are dispersed... Read more →

Technology is not the Solution - Again

Tom Barnett of Gantt Head has a nice article about the silliness of managing projects with tweets and IMs. I've been sitting in the conference room since the holiday break with my fellow PP&C colleagues, trying to get a large... Read more →

Deconstructing the PM 2.0 Description

In an interview on PM411, there is a description of the attributes of PM 2.0. Setting aside the product promotion, I feel compelled to review the notions on which PM 2.0 paradigm is built. As a practicing program manager in... Read more →

The Toyota Way on PM Technology

It's a cold but sunny day here in northern Colorado. I've been giving some thought to the issues of PM 2.0 and the method of "push" of technology onto projects. Not as a replacement for PM 1.0 as I'm now... Read more →

A Sweet Spot for PM 2.0?

In some organizations project management is seen as an unnecessary overhead or a burden on the business. Looking at the best practices of organizations where project management is the raison d’être can guide our search for best practices in your... Read more →