TimZon: Effective Team Discussions In A Global And Virtual World

In episode 20 of The Project Shrink Podcast I am talking to Jerome Breche and Jerome Mouton from TimZon. TimZon is a new tool for asynchronous video discussions. Skype and other video conferencing solutions are great for the little time per day when the team members are available. But with teams for instance in India …

Forum: Project Success Requires Leadership AND Management

If you are a regular reader of my blog, you know that I get all excited when people are infusing our Project Management profession with Leadership, you know, the icky stuff that is about “humans” (waaahaaaaa). When I found out about the Center for Project Leadership at Columbia University I got out of my chair …

Great Virtual Teams: Rule 3: Hold The Team Together

How to use social media successfully in projects, is described in the Harvard Business Review article: “Can Absence Make A Team Grow Stronger”. The article is from 2004, and they are not mentioning “social media”, they discuss “virtual workspaces”. But the two concepts are strikingly similar. The article describes three rules to create successful virtual …

Great Virtual Teams: Rule 2: Use Technology to Simulate Reality

How to use social media successfully in projects, is described in the Harvard Business Review article by Ann Majchrzak, Arvind Malhotra, Jeffrey Stamps and Jessica Lipnack: “Can Absence Make A Team Grow Stronger”. The article is from 2004, and they are not mentioning “social media”, they discuss “virtual workspaces”. But the two concepts are strikingly …