Collaborative Environment for Effective Project Management

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Collaborative Environment for Effective Project
Management

• September 19, 2006
• Chinarut Ruangchotvit

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Introduction - Who am I?

• Dual citizen born and raised in United States
• Graduate of Carnegie Mellon University
• Broad experience
• Private, academic, non-for-profit sector
• Engineering, sales, consulting, entrepreneur
• Results-oriented with a passion for process
• Community Building
• Best Practices
• Innovation and Research
• Im a dance innovator!
• My inspiration to be a world-class producer

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Definitions - Collaboration
A social skill involving working together with
two or more persons.
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Definitions - Environment
The combination of all the conditions external
to the genome that potentially affect its
expression and its structure.
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Definitions - Effective
'on purpose', producing the intended overall
result with an optimised balance over the whole
context requires broad generalist awareness of
the whole, rather than the narrow focus required
to create local efficiency, hence often
contrasted with efficient
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Definitions Project Management
The planning, control and co-ordination of all
aspects of a project, and the motivation of all
those involved in it, in order to achieve the
project objectives.
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Before we start...

• What thoughts are present?
• What would you like to get out of this talk?
• Scope of this talk

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Agenda

• Thailand
• Today's focus
• Applications
• Break
• Playtime
• Case work
• Trends
• Opens

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Thailand who can relate?

• Email - discussion
• How do you use email?
• What are the issues?
• Pros and cons?
• Website sharing
• What is your experience of web sites in Thailand?
• Static vs dynamic?

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What's Happening

• Past
• Enquire (Tim Berners-Lee, 1980)
• this program formed the conceptual basis for the
  future development of the World Wide Web.
• WikiWikiWeb (Cunningham, 1995)
• Now
• Web is more malleable than ever
• Desktops continue to move online
• Internet becomes the new workplace
• We invent structures to support a new mode of
  work
• Now anyone can contribute

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Transformation
Talk is cheap and transforming it into action is
one of the greatest challenges. --Ross Mayfield
Wikis transform the way we work together!
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So what's a wiki?
The simplest online database that could possibly
work. --Ward Cunningham
software that handles complex problems with
simple solutions
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Today's Focus - K.I.S.S.

• Website creation
• Simple markup
• Formatting
• Headers
• Tables
• Knowledge organization
• Team/community building

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Project Managers What's in it for you?

• Focus on teamwork
• Technology is an enabler - cultural adaptation
• Flexible, low ceremony
• Empowers team to create own structure
• Fast
• Quick iterations ideas evolve quickly
• Self-organizing, self-maintaining
• Dynamic and up-to-date
• Less work for you! )

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Empowering your team
Individuals can easily refactor and organize
personal views of creative and social network
resources for their own productivity. --Ross
Mayfield
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Applications Anything is possible!

• Encyclopedia
• Conference Documentation
• Release Planning
• Release Management
• Documentation
• Version control
• Change requests
• Roadmaps
• Event Production
• Program Dashboard
• Personal Notebook

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Application Encyclopedia
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Application Conference Documentation
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Application Release Planning
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Application Release Management
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Application Event Production
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Application Program Dashboard
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Break time!
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Playtime - Let's get started!

• Come up with a group/class name
• Use cases
• create wiki
• edit/create page
• create hyperlink (internal vs external)
• create header (main and sub)
• format text
• comment change
• view recent changes

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Case work

• Being an effective project manager
• Leadership
• Communication
• Conflict Resolution
• Risk Management
• Instructions
• 1 trait per group
• Design framework to support trait in wiki
• Present back to class

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What's possible...
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The possibilities are endless!
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Opens

• Questions?
• What now?
• Develop class wiki for the rest of the term
• Bring wikis to your teams/organization
• Share!

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Thank you!
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Appendix Lecturer

• Contacting me
• wikis_at_chinarut.com
• callto//chinarut (Skype)
• 66 (81) 713-8620
• http//wiki.chinarut.com

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Appendix Recommended Reading

• http//www.sitepoint.com/article/what-is-a-wiki
• WikiWikiWeb - http//c2.com/cgi/wiki
• http//www.asia.socialtext.net/wired
• Best Practices in wiki-based collaboration
• http//eastwikkers.typepad.com/eastwikkers_/33_wik
  is/index.html
• http//www.socialtext.net/wik-ed (final)
• http//www.wikiindex.org (31)
• http//www.libsuccess.org (15)
• http//www.socialtext.net/startup/index.cgi (6)
• http//daviswiki.org (5)
• http//www.fluwikie.com (4)
• http//ross.typepad.com
• http//ross.typepad.com/blog/2005/05/finding_a_hom
  e.html

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Appendix Application Examples

• http//th.wikipedia.org
• English - http//www.wikipedia.org
• http//wikis.bellanet.org/asia-commons
• http//amana.wikispaces.com
• http//dancelabs.wikispaces.com
• http//trac.edgewall.com
• http//dashboard.dancelabs.com

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Appendix Platform Evaluation

• Platforms
• MediaWiki - http//www.mediawiki.org
• Wikispaces - http//www.wikispaces.com
• Second Life - http//www.secondlife.com
• Trac - http//trac.edgewall.org/
• GTDTiddlyWiki - http//shared.snapgrid.com
• mindtouch - http//wiki.com
• Evaluation
• http//www.wikimatrix.org
• http//www.wikimatrix.org/wizard.php