Using Yammer For Frictionless Communication

In this episode of the Project Shrink podcast Hal Macomber explains how he and his colleagues are using Yammer at Lean Project Consulting (LPC). They are creating “frictionless communication” with this tool that is similar to Twitter. He puts the use of this tool into perspective with the other tools used and currently in use …

Why Should You Care About Social Media?

At the recent PMI Global Congress in Orlando I did a presentation together with Cornelius Fichtner (ThePMPodcast.com) and Josh Nankivel (pmStudent.com). We focused on demonstrating the use of new tools to manage virtual teams and allow them to collaborate. We used Skype, Vyew.com and Google Docs to show how to work effectively with virtual teams …

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Top-down and Bottom-up Project Management: Leveraging the Advantages of the Two Approaches

This is a guest post by Andrew Filev, CEO at Wrike.com. This article originally appeared on his blog Project Management 2.0. Significant changes are taking place in management and especially project management today. We hear that organizations, like the New York Times, Tribune Co., Ernst & Young switched from the so-called top-down management style to bottom-up …

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 …

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 …