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 [...]
What’s the Influence of the Current Economic Crisis on American Culture
Image by Lone_f via Flickr Andy Sack who is one of the more interesting VC people in Seattle got asked the question “What has been the influence/impact of the current economic crisis on American Culture”. In all this is a very good question to ask just about anyone as we have seen our friends and [...]
The Evolution Of Project Management And Zoho Projects 2.0
Project Management 2.0 can be considered as the combination of traditional project management with collaborative and social components (see our previous PM 2.0 coverage). Project Management tools have evolved very much from the days of traditional approach using Microsoft Project. It is only natural to evolve from the traditional tools that actually didn’t help much [...]
The Future Of Project Management Is Collaboration
For most of us, work is a series of projects. We’re always drawing up plans (some more formal than others) and trying to carry them out, usually as part of a team. So if project management is so core to our professional lives, why is it so difficult to find great project management tools? Historically, [...]
Pbworks Marries Project Management With Wikis
PBworks, formerly known as PBwiki, yesterday announced the release of Project Edition. This edition combines the power of wiki collaboration with the ease of project management tools. This edition is directed towards freelance consultants, advertising firms, design firms, etc.. From the early days of a powerful wiki vendor, this company is evolving into a multi-dimensional [...]
QuickArrow Releases Small Business Edition
QuickArrow Small Business Edition is a new offering launched yesterday that comes from a ten year veteran of professional services automation software. QuickArrow’s other products are used by over 30000 users worldwide and is used by some high profile companies. QuickArrow is based in Austin, Texas and is a privately held company. The solution provides [...]
TeamWork Project Manager – Review
TeamWork Project Manager is a new web-application and I had to give it a try. Website The website has great small screenshots which explain bits of the core functionality in TeamWork. Personally I would probably move the twitter updates to the bottom but I guess a company has to show of that they are cool [...]
Project Management 2.0: We've seen this shift before
A brief history of typists Back before the 1980s there used to be these people called “typists” and they often worked in a “typing pool”. What did they do? Well, when someone had a document that they needed typed they would give the handwritten draft to the typist and she would type it up. So, [...]
Project Management 2.0: Catalyzing Changes in Project Management
The buzz about traditional project management software being inefficient is pretty loud nowadays. The basic problems associated with this software are: E-mail communications bypass the project management software, making plans outdated and information siloed in individual mailboxes. Lack of collaboration puts the enormous burden of routine operations on project managers. There are many single-view documents, [...]
Project Management 2.0? Why, What’s Wrong with 1.0?
Image by Chance Gardener via Flickr <begin sarcasm> It’s fashionable to declare one’s fed up with the whole Everything 2.0 phenomenon It’s also fashionable to then go on and declare yet-another 2.0 term </end sarcasm> The little disclaimer out of the way, I am going to talk about Project Management 2.0 . Let me quickly [...]
Tracking Your Time with TrackIr
Tracklr have just released a public beta of their lightweight time tracking service. Tracklr is a service that aims to give individuals such as consultants, contractors and web-workers, the ability to generate lightweight reports of the work they do on different projects. The concept behind Tracklr is based on the notion that an individual works [...]
