Stephen Seay, PMP writes to the PM World Today that he has launched a new Project Management Web Log (Plog). He advises that initial feedback regarding the site's content has been positive, and reader comments can be left directly on the site.
Check out this new weblog at http://projectsteps.blogspot.com.
To view the contents with an RSS Newsfeed reader, use:
http://projectsteps.blogspot.com/atom.xml.
Agile Project Management (APM) is a group to discuss and promote techniques for the management of agile projects. APM seeks to provide managers with a forum to share practical advice, experiences and insights from the application of agile methodologies like eXtreme Programming (XP), SCRUM, Feature Driven Development (FDD) and DSDM.
APM will explore management in an agile context as defined by the Agile Manifesto:
* Individuals and interactions over processes and tools;
* Working software over comprehensive documentation;
* Customer collaboration over contract negotiation; and
* Responding to change over following a plan.
This project management discussion group is declared to be:
"For managers of product development and other innovative business solution delivery teams who need to lead highly skilled individuals in delivering business value rapidly and reliably, APM is a project management paradigm that provides core values, principles, practices and tools to energize, enable and empower project teams that work in close concert with customers to meet their business needs. Unlike traditional mechanistic project management approaches, APM's humanistic approach considers all members skilled and valuable stakeholders in team management and hence uses complexity theory as a metaphor for embracing change and delivering results in extreme environments."
For more on the Agile Project Management Group see the Yahoo Group agileprojectmanagement
at
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/agileprojectmanagement
David Curling
The The PM World Collaborative Initiative is ongoing research project to locate and test web platforms for PM collaborative use. Last month I reported on the PM Wiki. This month we report two applications of interest , GroupsSpace and Metadot Portal that you might want to follow up for use as a SBE collaborative portal application. So far my research has been restricted to open source applications.
The Internet can serve as a communal gathering place, where like-minded community members can come together to discuss various pressing issues, share documents, take polls, and engage in the decision-making process as well.
A recent project, GroupSpace, started at Stanford University as part of a research partnership with a local community organization, allows groups of individuals to do all of the above. As their mission statement suggests, the creation of the program is “to support the type of deliberation critical to the functioning of smaller, informal organizations in civil society”. It should be noted that this version of GroupSpace is a beta version. [ More ]
The PM Collaborative Initiative research examines prospect helpful applications for PM world-wide collaboration for PM SBE. The latest release of the Metadot Portal Server may be a nice addition for use, at least examination for capability for some of our PM SBE users.
The Metadot Portal Server is an open source portal system that is designed for ease of use and can create PM websites and portals in a short period of time. One important use is to allow global PM practitioners to collectively collaborate on various projects through the use of their file and document management capabilities. For further PM use examination of Metadot Portal Server 6.2b7, review the online portfolio of live implementations created with the program, including those created by NASA and the World Health Organization. This version of [ Metadot Portal Server ] is compatible with all systems running Mac OS X and Linux.
I am on the open source PM collaborative web platform learning curve and will report more in the next PM World Today. I would be pleased to receive any comment and heads up information that would improve my search for useful PM collaborative applications.
David Curling
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