Did 37Signals Increase BaseCamp Price or Not? The Backdoor Experiment.
There’s a debate going on about 37Signal’s “hidden” “unannounced” price increase of their popular Basecamp service. Apparently most of the uproar wasn’t so much due to the price hike itself, but the fact that it happened without any announcement. Cinovate Cinovate Cloud Inn. Why did 37 Signal’s Basecamp price double unannounced? http://bit.ly/bLan2a Contact Cinovate for [...]
Lowering Risk at Decision Points
I’ve actually got the chance to catch up on a little blog reading this morning, and I just got to digest Sameer Patel’s wonderful post entitled, “Innovation 1.0, served here.” The bit that really hit home was this (emphasis mine): “By organizations embracing and encouraging innovation, that really doesn’t equate to every factory worker walking [...]
IT Project Slipping? Just Throw in More Bodies … Not.
As a former Project Manager I faced the above situation far too many times, and I second Dilbert, it does not work. Throwing in more warm bodies often has the opposite effect, you project just got more expensive but not a bit faster…
Project Management Made Easy: Rule 89
Project management guru and occasional CloudAve guest blogger (you hear me, Andrew?) Andrew Filev warns of the most common project management mistakes to avoid … but even he doesn’t know it all comes down to Rule #89:
33 Selected Blogs about Innovation, Project Management and 2.0: Vote for the Best!
What project management blogs do you read? I’ve assembled a list of blogs that give me substantial food for thought when I write on innovations in project management. The list also includes blogs that serve as great sources of information about Enterprise 2.0, new management methodologies, leadership, motivation, as well as useful project management tips [...]
A Google Wave Use-Case – Agility in Application Lifecycle Management
I remember sitting enthralled at the keynote where Google Wave was first publicly announced – despite most of us being a little numb to general hype, most of us felt a bit of a tingle down the spine when seeing the Wave demo – it was just so goddam cool. Those of us who have [...]
Pbworks Ups The Ante With Real Time Collaboration Features
When Zoho projects 2.0 was released, I wrote a post about the evolution of project management. In the post, I talked about the nature of Project Management 2.0 Project Management 2.0 can be considered as the combination of traditional project management with collaborative and social components In the same post, I also dug in [...]
Intervals for SaaS Project Management
Image by Geodog via Flickr For people who are familiar with Microsoft Project and other online project management tools, taking a look at Intervals might also be something that will help you work your projects smarter. I recently took a look at intervals, and found that in the competition for Software as a Service, Intervals [...]
Pbworks Adds Social Component To Their Project and Legal Editions
In June this year, Pbworks (formerly known as Pbwiki) launched the Project Edition, an integration of project management tools with the traditional wiki. This edition was directed towards freelance consultants, advertising firms, design firms, etc. in such a way that the project management becomes an organic outgrowth of the real work done by these businesses. [...]
What Do You Know About Project Management 2.0?
Project Management 2.0 is becoming a popular term, but many people are still not quite sure what it is. Some of you may know that this term has something to do with Web 2.0 and technologies like blogs, wikis and social networks. Others have heard that Project Management 2.0 is a new, innovative approach to [...]
The Importance of Psychological Currency: Connecting Mind To Enterprise (Part 2)
Thinking about how people work in today’s enterprise reminds me of the movie Being John Malkovich. You know what I’m talking about – it’s like the low-ceiling offices on floor 7½ of the Mertin Flemmer building in New York City. The ceiling is all of 4 1/2 feet high, and they have to emergency-stop the [...]
The importance of Psychological Currency in Enterprise 2.0 (Part I)
There are so many things floating around about Enterprise 2.0 lately that touch on the 50,000 ft view, but not many that dive into the details. Before we see mass adoption in the Enterprise like we have seen with social media outside the Enterprise, some key psychological characteristics need to be properly converted. I recall [...]
Can you Become Agile, When Managing Projects the Top-Down Style?
I posted on enterprise agility before, but recently I came across some very interesting research data, so I decided to give this topic a different angle, taking the present economic conditions into consideration. The ups and downs of our economy are enough to make any executive dizzy. Just look at U.S. Steel (X). In the [...]
