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Entries in Project Management (32)
How To Avoid Common Strategic Planning Mistakes
For the past few months one of the most popular posts on this blog has been A Short Definition of “Strategic Planning.” I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because the term “short definition” is in the title. Why read a “long definition” if a “short definition” is available?
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Collaboration, Project Management, Social Networking, Social Media, Strategy, Strategic Planning
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How Can Collaboration Systems and Social Media Complement Agile Project Management?
I recently met with Thad Scheer, President of Sphere of Influence, Inc. Thad’s company specializes in agile and lean project management methods. During our meeting Thad and I discussed some of the changes occurring in project management methods and practices.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Project Management, Social Networking, Social Media, Project Blog Survey, Agile
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Rich Maltzman, PMP, Needs Your Help
In New Kids on the Blog, professional project manager Rich Maltzman asks the following:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Project Management, R&D Management
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It's Not MY Strategy It's YOUR Strategy
I was talking the other day with a friend about what consultants do. One of the topics raised was “strategic planning.” We talked about what that meant and then he said, “Oh, so you create business strategies for clients?”
Dennis D. McDonald
in Project Management, Strategic Planning, Consulting
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How Corporate RSS Supports Collaboration and Innovation
If you haven’t seen it yet, check out corporate IT manager Jim MacLennan’s RSS: Underappreciated Web 2.0 in the Enterprise blog post.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Collaboration, Project Management, Innovation, RSS, Cost Analysis, Tagging, Metrics, Email, Adoption, PowerPoint, Knowledge Transfer
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Howlett Makes Some Good Points About Enterprise Web 2.0 Adoption
Dennis Howlett’s The poverty of enterprise 2.0 and social media, once you get past the hyperbole of the title and ZDNet’s antiquated requirement to register in order to leave comments, makes some good points.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Management Tools, Blogging, Governance, Web 2.0, Project Management, Social Networking, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Adoption
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Are Collaboration Tools Part of the IT Infrastructure or Part of the Application Portfolio?
I was interviewed yesterday by a Forrester Research staff member about how CIO’s (Chief information Officers) should approach the implementation of collaboration tools (click here for a list of blog posts related to “collaboration”). We talked about the usual adoption issues related to “web 2.0” applications within the enterprise.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Management Tools, Governance, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Project Management, Enterprise 2.0, Cost Analysis, Strategic Planning, Software
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Project Management, Social Media, and Defining "Community"
As a continuation of our Conversation about Project Management and Social Media, Lee White in his recent post Project Community states the following: The point here is not that Social Media, as discussed in earlier posts, directly drives efficiencies, but that it can create a community of project stakeholders that are passionate about the successful completion of a project.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Governance, Web 2.0, Collaboration, Project Management, Social Networking, Enterprise 2.0, Social Media, Project Blog Survey, Definitions, Mergers & Acquisitions, PMandSM
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A Conversation about Project Management and Social Media
Lee White and I are discussing how social media can be used to support project management. Lee discusses his views on his blog, I discuss my views here, and below you can see a combination of both of our posts.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Collaboration, Project Management, RSS, Social Media, PMandSM
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Project Blogs, Email, and Dual Collaboration Channels
Jim MacLennan, a seriously thoughtful corporate IT manager, recently published Update on Blogs as PM Tools - Tales from the Front Lines. There he made the following statements about the challenges of adopting blogs and wikis in support of project management:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Blogging, Collaboration, Project Management, Email, Adoption, Project Blog Survey
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