A project is 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 how you can leverage technology to make people feel committed, empowered and passionate about their projects.
Social Project Management represents a dramatic shift toward having collaboration as the heart of project management.
As a result, Projectplace focuses on:
- Collaboration, communication & commitment
- Transparent information sharing
- Social media-inspired tools
- Intuitive and easy to use features
Collaboration, communication & commitment
We think project planning is important, but detailed planning should be easy to refine when needed. Project plans are essential hypotheses, but should constantly be challenged in response to events inside or outside the control of the project.
The person executing the work should be the one planning it. Most of the project work takes place in the making, keeping and coordination of individual commitments. Therefore we think it is important that team members accept responsibilities. Tasks should not only be assigned but also taken on by the project members themselves.
Transparent information sharing
One classic trap many project managers find themselves in is taking on the role of the "project information system". It is both stressful and limiting to be an information exchange or a filter for everyone involved in a project.
We strongly believe that everyone involved in a project should have access to all the information. Not only does this prevent the project manager from taking on this role, but it also encourages feedback and builds trust in the team.