The last development sprint has been a very long one. There are so many holidays in April/May so the total number of development days has not been that much larger than normal. We have got a lot done though. Improvements to Conversations The purpose is to increase the use of conversations to promote social project […]
April 4, 2011
We define a project as a temporary social system where people come together to work towards a common goal. The key to successful project management is therefore to understand how you make a temporary social system perform better. To do that you need to understand how people are motivated, how they interact to create professional relations and […]
March 11, 2011
Don’t Be An Anti-Social Project Manager Author: Ty Kiisel Whenever I speak with someone about project management and social media I tend to get one of two reactions. They either see the value right away or they don\’t get it at all—dismissing the socialization of project management out of hand. After a few minutes of […]
March 9, 2011
In this series of posts I will try to get the perspective of some people in Projectplace about what it’s like to work with Value Based Management. First out is our CEO Pelle Hjortblad. 5 quick questions: Why did we choose Value Based Management in Projectplace? Because Projectplace is a company with very stong and […]
February 24, 2011
Right now I’m reading a book about Lean, Agile, Scrum, XP. It struck me how much the ideas in these book are similar to working with value based leadership. One of the similarities is change. The basis is that in a world that constantly changes we have to be able to adapt quickly. In order […]
February 23, 2011
I’m going to start the series about Value Based Management. This is the kind of management that we have in Projectplace and I believe that this is one of the key factors in making the company a great place to work. The general idea, the way I understand it and please correct me if you […]
December 14, 2010
Yes! It’s release time again. Tonight we are planning to release a number of improvements to the Projectplace service. Improved User Experience on Mac We have focused a lot of the work in this development sprint on developing a plug-in for document management on Mac. The plan was to have a public beta ready for […]
November 4, 2010
This is a translation of an article by Anders Lotsson on Computer Sweden’s web site. The original article (in Swedish) can be found here. Even though Projectplace was a success from the start customers didn’t understand the underlying idea. Now social networking has helped us understand Mattias Hällström’s view of projects: dialogue instead of orders. […]
October 20, 2010
This is a translation of an article in Computer Sweden by Marcus Jerräng. The original article (Swedish) can be found on IDG.se. After the breakthrough of Facebook and Twitter, social media functions are quickly entering core systems in companies. Within a couple of years there will be social activity streams in half of all major […]
September 1, 2010
Wow! Release night, such an exciting time. Conversations on the Project Overview The main feature of this release is the change on the Project Overview. To understand why we are so excited about this release it’s important to understand what we believe are the crucial factors to project success: -We believe that the key to […]
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