Putting the “Social” into Project Management

Social Project Management is about people. Social Project Management empowers people to engage in the project management process. Participation is critical not only to share project information but also to build social relationships between project team members and project stakeholders for the collective benefit of all participants. Social Project Management embodies the social networking paradigm that now dominates the way people create connections and conduct conversations over the Internet.

The combination of rigorous project management functionality with social media such as the leading social software for business from IBM opens project participation up to all project team members, not just a project management team tasked with updating and managing plans and schedules. Whereas in the past a project team member might focus on the tasks assigned to her, but be unaware of wider project progress, a successful Social Project Management implementation motivates participants to actively engage in the project management process, work in their now familiar informal social paradigm, and take a stake in overall success.

So you’re not a Project Manager?

It takes a team of people to make projects work. For the majority, work means accomplishing tasks. Work does not mean sitting in meetings talking about tasks or spending valuable time creating status reports about tasks. If you’re not a project manager, odds are you don’t have time to add extra work to the volume of work you’re already doing.

Social Project Management solves this dilemma for the project team. The social savvy transformational technology empowers and enables team members to work better and faster using the familiar and informal social media tools already used to converse and work in general. No added burdens, just added accomplishments.

Trilog Group’s ProjExec includes a unique innovation – the Project Wall – that makes ProjExec infinitely more than a simple reporting tool. The Project Wall lets team members easily share what they know and what they are working on using an intuitive and enjoyable Facebook-like social environment to do work. The Project Wall enables project participation. Like popular social media tools, the Project Wall enables spontaneous sharing of knowledge, spontaneous creation of connections and communities of interest, spontaneous identification of and learning from subject matter experts – all in the context of project work, tasks and activities. “What are you working on?” turns interactive micro-blogging into a living project history that offers greater visibility and delivers project success - all in the course of an enjoyable social work forum.

Advancing Social Project Management in the Enterprise

Trilog Group is the first to introduce a Social Project Management solution that can truly scale to the enterprise. ProjExec lets IBM Enterprise customers manage complex cross-organization projects, enabling organizations to work better while socializing better. Enterprise customers can leverage significant investment in the IBM Lotus infrastructure. ProjExec plugs into your Enterprise collaborative environment to complement existing Enterprise social and collaborative tools and services with tightly integrated and robust project management functionality that accommodates extremely large and complex projects with ease. Most importantly, ProjExec respects the business constraints, security concerns and business controls that are critical to any enterprise, large or small - all while leveraging the IBM Lotus infrastructure to extend your enterprise and stay secure. By socially enabling business processes so everyone can participate within the boundaries of the everyday work environment, adoption across the enterprise is swift and successful.