Project Challenge 2010 How Social Project Management Challenge Old Structures Mattias Hällström Founder and Director of

1. Project Challenge 2010How Social Project Management Challenge Old Structures Mattias HällströmFounder and Director of R&DProjectplace International AB

2. Projectplace International AB • Swedish company • Software-as-a-Service • Profitable & Growing fast • 580 000 users • 70 000 active projects in more than 50 countries. • Office Locations

3. A project is a temporary social system • "Many of us have been preaching for some years that the traditional analytical tools of project management best exemplified by CPM scheduling, have tiny impact on project success and failure. It’s actually all about the behavior and interactions of people.”Dr. Martin Barnes, Chairman of the International Project Management Association

5. Social Project Management– The Projectplace Way • The key to successful projects is to help people: • gain mutual trust and coordinate commitments. • learn and adapt to change within and outside the project. • use technology to open up communication and share information transparently across boundaries. Technology IS an important part of the “Method”

6. Projects – the way most of us work Modern communication technology and globalization has accelerated the trends in society to organize work in projects across boundaries.

7. The Facebook Imperative: “Why isn’t all enterprise software like Facebook?” Marc Benioff, Chairman and CEO of salesforce.com.

8. Facebook

9. Salesforce Chatter

10. Cisco Quad

11. Projectplace

12. Projectplace for iPhone

13. Social Project Management– The Projectplace Way Transparency creates trust and enables osmotic communicaction.

14. Motivating people by aligning their purpose with the project. Dan Pink on motivation (10 minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

15. Social Project Management– The Projectplace Way Shared understanding of the project context enables focus and leverages individual competence and creativity. ”If everything is equally important, then nothing is important.” ”You can do anything, but not everything” Dave Allan, Getting Thing Done : Mastering the Art of Stress-Free Productivity

16. Social Project Management- Planning the Projectplace Way • The purpose of planning is to learn, not to predict the future. • Plans are important hypotheses that are refined together, when needed. • “The Last Planner Rule” - the one who executes the work is the one planning it. • The time horizon decides the level of planning detail.

17. Social Project Management- Planning the Projectplace Way Plan for Three Time Horizons- Action plan, Look-aheadplan and Master plan.

18. Social Project Management– The Projectplace Way • The key to successful projects is to help people: • gain mutual trust and coordinate commitments. • learn and adapt to change within and outside the project. • use technology to open up communication and share information transparently across boundaries. Technology IS an important part of the “Method”

19. Project Challenge 2010How Social Project Management Challenge Old Structures Mattias HällströmFounder and Director of R&DProjectplace International AB