Project Shrink

This is a guest post by Andrew Filev, CEO at Wrike.com. This article originally appeared on his blog Project Management 2.0. Significant changes are taking place in management and especially project management today. We hear that organizations, like the New York Times, Tribune Co., Ernst & Young switched from the so-called top-down management style to bottom-up [...]

This is the organizational challenge for the next years: moving from hierarchical controlled entities to more self-organized teams. This is an educational challenge. How to convince, to motivate, to explain. I use a specific metaphor to explain this shift. When roads cross, you can assign a traffic policeman to direct the traffic. You can also [...]

Earlier this month Ted.com published a presentation by Howard Rheingold called “Way-New Collaboration“. He talks about how the old paradigm of command-control is being replaced by Way-New Collaboration. He connects his story with social dilemma’s like Prisoners Dilemma and Tragedy of the Commons. This is the best presentation I’ve seen that is telling the story [...]

What is the most important task of a Project Manager? (makes a great dinner discussion if you want to get rid of your guests ) Planning? No! Control? You wished… NO! Communication… HECK NO! The answer is… allocation of scarce resources. Come again? You have limited time, your money pit is not without bottom, you [...]