magazine Reducing routine work Project Management 2.0 practices and supportive tools eliminate the need for extra meetings, phone calls and e-mails,
Naturally, software will not do the whole job alone, but it empowers people and multiplies their efforts.
thus saving you time and letting you focus on getting things done. The best tools in
generation technologies enable managers
this area are integrated with e-mail. They
and other members of the project team
organization more productive lays in
The key to the making the whole
don’t break the habitual workflow, allowing
to view projects differently. Project
gaining efficiency for the project manager
project participants to communicate via
participants can pick any reasonable sub-
and his team. Project Management 2.0
e-mail messages. At the same time, they
set of tasks, create a view with these tasks
tools and practices become a catalyst to
automatically absorb information from e-
and share the view with someone who
important innovations on the organizational
mails, which usually bypasses project
needs it. It means that more people can
level. They let everybody from team
management systems and is traditionally
collaborate and contribute to the project
members to project managers and
buried in the team’s inboxes.
work productively.
corporate executives focus on getting things done and spend less time on
With project management 2.0 tools,
Each of these views can be changed
routine tasks. Naturally, software will not
this knowledge is shared and available to
by team members as the organization
do the whole job alone, but it empowers
everybody on the team at any given moment
and its environment changes. The whole
people and multiplies their efforts. Project
in time. Just imagine: there’s no need to call
structure evolves with time. Managers, who
Management 2.0 democratizes project
and ask your peer to find the important e-
have access to more perspectives and to
management, bringing it outside of
mail from a customer who wanted to make
broader views, can align multiple projects,
enterprise project management offices to
changes in a project schedule. Tasks, clients’
avoid scheduling conflicts and set the right
other departments, as well as to small and
requirements, status updates, ideas and
priorities. Flexible, many-to-many structures
midsize businesses. It makes companies
project discussions are all captured by a
that allow creating, sharing and easy
more agile, projects more controllable and
single system, are shared among the project
merging of views are an important part of
people more productive.
participants and are available at any given
the Project Management 2.0 approach. This
moment in time. So even if you need the
approach enables collective intelligence
information when nobody is in the office,
and leads to collaborative planning. In turn,
you can still get it immediately. No need to
collaborative planning makes organizations
call your employee on Saturday evening
more productive and transparent.
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when you suddenly need to know where the project stands. Besides, there’s no need for
Giving the complete picture of all projects
has been
the manager to manually adjust project plans
Upper-level managers can access the
managing
and individual team members’ schedules.
global organizational view, which gives
software teams
them a clear picture of where the business
since 2001
stands. Project Management 2.0 tools
with the help
avoid micromanagement by allowing team
merge individual employees’ to-do lists
of new-generation collaboration
members to mark updates of their part of
into one picture that is always up-to-
and management applications.
the project work in the shared collaborative
date. It means that corporate executives
His best practices are based on
environment. This gives the project manager
are constantly in the loop with what’s
implementation of Enterprise 2.0
the up-to-date picture of where his team
going on in the project. The information
software in project management.
and the project stand. The top-down
is always at their fingertips. As a result,
Now Andrew is an expert in project
control comes in when the project manager
the organization’s leaders can adjust
management, a successful software
aligns and guides those activities. Project
strategic plans to changes in the business
entrepreneur and the CEO at Wrike.
Management 2.0 practices and tools let
environment much faster. It becomes easier
com. Andrew’s ideas about improving
you gain harmony between top-down and
for them to rapidly and cost-efficiently
traditional project management
bottom-up management styles.
recognize changes and adapt to them. The
are reflected in his popular Project
whole organization becomes more agile
Management 2.0 blog.
Project Management 2.0 lets you to
Providing multiple project views
and therefore more competitive, thanks
Besides giving an up-to-date picture
to very simple tools and the powerful
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of internal project operations, the new-
practices of Project Management 2.0.
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