social project management

everything small is big again

so, social project management huh!

what's the fuss about?

the 'social' revolution

changing the way we do many things

a new way of 'doing' projects..

well, not really, new

it's just that they're being taken A LOT more seriously these

days

limited planningno documentationdiy (small teams)

multiple skillsetssmall budgetrelease asap

what was once a 'hack' is now an accepted methology

so, social project management

what does it look like?

small teams

smart, motivated people

limited planning

a clear vision

minimal scope

small projects

multi-skilled teams

fast pace

rapid release

alpha, beta

feedback

responsiveness

iteration

is this really so new?

there are not-so-new alternatives

agile

 individuals and interaction over processes and toolsworking sofware over comprehensive documentation

customer collaboration over contract negotiationrespond to change over following a plan

while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more

agile software development

shorter development cycles,iteration,

end user involvement,multi-disciplinary teams

compare and contrast with'project management 1.0'

large scale projects

top down

centralised control

authoritarian environment

implied structure

limited communication to team and end users

over complex tools

rigidity of tools

local access to information

gantt charts

managed with a guesstimation paradigm

many stakeholders

escalating requirements

complex dependencies

risk registers

mammoth teams

scary and crazy budgets

horizon and beyond timelines

expected failure

why do these projects fail?

first, do they fail?

oracle, peoplesoft, sap, accenture, ibm global services

the 1.0 'large scale', top down project approach fails

spectacularyall the time

except they don't *officially* fail. because we update the gantt

chart as we go.we move the goal posts

but why?

traditional project managment doesn't match the way we work

that said

social project management projects *also* fail

all the time

for different reasons

usually because it just wasn't such a great idea

or the implementation was completely wrong

or the audience doesn't exist yet.

but it doesn't matter

because they're smaller and faster with less investment

dust off, learn from the mistakes and move on

ok, so what's all this *social* stuff got to do with it? 

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adapted from the original by lisa reichelt (lisa.reichelt@gmail.com)