Some people still wonder how Twitter can be useful. Short 140 character messages about what you had for lunch. Hmph! Although I got some great lunch suggestions from the Twitterverse, this is not why I find it useful. Hal Macomber explained microblogging as being able to stick your head out of your cubicle and ask: …
Every moment in a project has a specific set of topics and discussions you would expect. During the start up “planning” and “scope”, just before delivery “creating the final build” and “acceptance”. If you are in a room with your team it happens very often that a talk between people in the same room morphs …
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 …
Just came back from the first day at the PMI EMEA Congress here in Amsterdam. Love it! Met some great people like Dave Prior, the author of the Drunken PM blog and the ITT SIG Podcast, and a big agile fan. Great day for him. On this first day of the conference a lot of …
Now that Oprah joined Twitter, it is a serious medium. In Project Management we like “serious”. It sounds wise, professional, the proper thing to do. Now that Oprah is leading the masses towards Twitterland, we need a serious answer to why we should use this medium in our projects. The short answer: Twitter can enable …