Social Project Management, PMI-J International Users Group Presentation 2009 July 08

Social Project Management.  This is a presentation I will be delivering at the All Volunteer, PMI-Japan International, Special Interest Group
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Social Project Management tools for the projects that are open for society.

Projects are about people.

|dareka| Who?  In the Asia Pacific area our projects are very diverse.  We typically every day work with people from many different Culture.  The photos are members of the PMI Asia Pacific Planning Committee for the Global Congress 2009.  Our projects are diverse For example attending the presentation on July 8th 2009, Senior Project managers are working on Long Term Mega Projects in Indonesia, Russia…. so this idea of diverse complex projects is not theory it is actual every day reality.

|naze|  Why?  Why do we need Social Networking?  Why do we need Social Project Management?

|Stakeholder relations| From PMBOK Fourth Edition it is clear that the Project Manager is at the center of a very complex network.  The purple area is the People in their “House” or Uchi in Japanese.  As we move out from the “House” we increase the complexity “Outside” or Soto in Japanese.  The diversity of Asia Pacific exacerbates the temporal power distance (Hofstede 2001).

Customers will be people perhaps outside of our Internal Project controls.

Others will also be outside.  These Others stakeholder is a person or group who has a direct interest and impact on the project outcome and determines whether the project is a success or not’ (Kathy Schwalbe, 2006).

|ara| New. Social Networking Creates a new way to manage these groups Outside of our “House”.

|Knowledge| We can also create new knowledge

|Breakthrough| Social Networking can breakthrough barriers that are very difficult.

|Henrik Knibergs blog|  This is an example of a Personal Breakthrough or AhHaHa moment I had studying Agile Project Management.  There is a lot of data on Agile and various methods.  But I had alot of trouble grasping what is the point.  This Blog I found by Social Networking explained in 5 mintues what I couldn’t grasp in a month of studying.  After having my AhHaHa I realized that I can recycle this concept into non-software Projects as a part of my Configuration Management in the Planning Stage.

|mondai| Problem.  The problem we face is

|Stakeholder Relationships| We are at the center of a complex network

We have alot of information coming in?  How can we deal with this problem.

Social Project Management is an emerging ecosystem of semantic interconnected user generated content.

|donoyouni| How ~ In what way.

By using a wide variety of Open, Free.  Social networking tools.  My criteria for this is they must be open, but also have some garnularity to be secure.  they must be free or “freemium” is acceptable also.

I strongly suggest to use Firefox to integrate with various addons that extend the functionality.

Online Mail-User Accounts.  I suggest having two accounts one with Gmail and one with Yahoo.

Signup for delicious to bookmark and share your bookmarks.  I also demonstarted the major difference between traditional file and forget browser bookmarks to semantic shareable bookmarks that are search able by tag, whcih include User generate notes to add value to the data. I also recomend to install the Plugin and I showed how to install and use the plugin.  Someone asked how many bookmarks I have and I showed them several thousand on my personal private feed.  We also quickly located bookmarks using the semantic tagging filters.

Activate Google Reader.  I explain RSS feeds and how google reader can consolidate Social Blogging Content and it is searchable.

Signup for yahoo pipes.  I demonstrated how you can create your own custom RSS feed. How that feed can be shared.  This is very powerful way to search Petabytes of information and munge the data into a more discreet usable personalized feed.

Subscribe to feeds in Google reader.

There is many other non-core social networking sites for example Yahoo, Youtube, Alltop, Scribd, Xmind, and Prezi.  You can add the RSS feeds directly to Google reader or you can add them to your Yahoo Pipe and filter the data.

Google reader is the central place to consolidate many kinds of feeds and information.  You can sort and search in Google Reader.  Another important feature is you can makr items for sharing in Google reader.  Shared items are public and you can comment on them and work with information from other people.

Feedly for FireFox Only at this time.  Works in conjunction with Google reader and Twitter.  Feedly performs and analysis on your items in Google reader to push the most interesting content to a clean portal of information.

Twitter is the short messaging service that has been discussed previously.  By having content and message and meaning you can distribute your message to people.  People who are interested in your message can find you and subscribe to your messages.  By combining valuable up to date information from Petabytes of data that has been filtered with algorithms you can influence people or even Stakeholders. You can shape, and influence a wicked problem.

For Example:  Traditional Business on a Social Giga-Project (Tuschiya 2009 Meag-projects spanning generations), like a High Speed Rail between San Diego and San Francisco would involve a kind of top level, lobbying or meeting between Senior Sales/Project Teams and Government agencies to discuss the price or material like rail stock.  The discussion will talk about mostly price and technical competence.

A Social Project Management Approach would start very early in the project by building consensus and teaching people about the benefits of a Train Culture.  This Grass Roots Social Project Management Approach would encourage education and engagement of the Stakeholders early on to facilitate the Talking Points of the High Level Meetings.  By building consensus and grass roots supports for Cultural shifts, Social Giga-Projects

FriendFeed is a “simple” conversational, open semantic approach to engaging in real-time conversations.  It is Filtered User driven Knowledge, ready for threaded conversation.  It has granularity, for example one conversation can be tagged under multiple Groups.  For Example you can tag a topic by Project, and Agile, and Mega.  These semantic groups can facilitate the Kanban concept of self organizing.   It has Security you can have open groups or private groups.  It has file transfer.  You can upload a file directly from your computer that is available to everyone.  The discussions are threaded, so new ideas can emerge and discussion can proceed.  It is simple.  It is complex.  It is open.  Unlike LinkedIn, Facebook all the Public information is searchable and usable for the public.  This supports agile, logarithmic growth.  It has real-time search.  It is scaleable.  The Founders of the company are from Google and worked on some for the original core google products for example Gmail.

The Output of Social Project Management would be self organizing groups continuing to form and work on Projects in an open environment.

Linoit is a kind of open online project board.  Micro-Projects can be self organized, people can set dates and schedules.

Using powerful free tools for example Word-Press.com people can write about the knowledge they have gained from collaborating.

|Henrik Knibergs blog|This content can improve and provide crystal clear analysis improving the collective knowledge of Society.

|ara| New. The Velocity of Knowledge Creation is increasing.

If we can volunteer our time and use these tools on Open Social Giga-Projects, we can also learn how to use these new emerging tools on our own projects that will require higher standards and security.  We can create a New Breakthrough in terms of Social Giga-Project Management.

Social Project Management

by Robert Higgins

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