In this Edition

Feature Article: Second Annual @task User Conference a Great Success
Events: Live Webinar: The Case For Social Project Management
Blog Posts: Change is Afoot
The Rules Have Changed—A New Paradigm for Managing Work
Smart Decision Making Leads to Successful Project-Based Work
Decision Making and Work Management

Feature Article

Second Annual @task User Conference a Great Success

The Second Annual @task User Conference held in Salt Lake City saw attendees from as far away as Brazil and Singapore learning project management best practices, networking with other @task users from around the world, and participating in the announcement of Stream, the world’s first social project management platform.

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Events

Live Webinar: The Case For Social Project Management:
3 Imperatives that Will Drive Greater Project Success

As PPM methodologies spread departmentally throughout the organization, one of the greatest challenges facing business leaders is a lack of voluntary team member participation in the project management process. The traditional top-down work management approach doesn’t work with today’s workforce, resulting in

1. Project information that executives don’t trust
2. An overly structured work environment that nobody likes
3. Frustrated project teams whose accomplishments often go unrecognized

Join us June 3, 2010 at 8:30 a.m. PDT and listen to guest speakers Tim Harmon of Forrester and Nate Bowler of @task discuss in depth The Case for Social Project Management and how to revolutionize how you manage projects for your company.

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Other Events

Blog Posts

Change is Afoot

We’ve recently seen big changes happening around us. Just as the Internet itself revolutionized much of the way we communicate and do business, it has enabled a new paradigm of communicating and doing business that has previously been impossible.

We’ve seen the advent of social media. Social media is really just a term for decentralized communication. We’ve seen social change our expectations for…

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The Rules Have Changed—A New Paradigm for Managing Project-Based Work

Over the last couple of months, there has been a lot of discussion in this blog, and others, about the value of social networking tools and the role they should or shouldn’t play in the project management process. It’s no secret that I believe we are facing a paradigm shift regarding the traditional methods of communication used by project teams and the proliferation of social networking tools. Traditional software methods for capturing project information…

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Smart Decision Making Leads to Successful Project-Based Work

Fraser Bullock, the COO of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, was the speaker at the @task Appreciation Dinner held in conjunction with this With three years before the games, Bullock described 42 project teams and over 37,000 tasks that needed to be completed before the final ceremony of the games. A very daunting project plan when you consider their project management process was…

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Decision Making and Work Management

It didn’t really matter what it was about, if the only reason my father could give me was, “because I said so,” I automatically didn’t like his decision. However, as a father myself, I must admit there were times when I pulled the “because I said so” card…

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