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Top-down and Bottom-up Project Management: Leveraging the Advantages of the Two Approaches
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 management. Others, including some of the world’s biggest corporations, such as Toyota and IBM, implemented bottom-up management style elements in some of their departments. The popularity of the bottom-up approach to management is growing. In spite of this fact, the discussions about the two major approaches are still hot. Why have organizations become so anxious about changing their management style? If we compare the two management approaches, the answer to this question will be clear.
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. Team members are invited to participate in every step of the management process. The decision on a course of action is taken by the whole team. Bottom-up style allows managers to communicate goals and value, e.g. through milestone planning. Then team members are encouraged to develop personal to-do lists with the steps necessary to reach the milestones on their own.
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These methods include are Enterprise 2.0 technologies – wikis, blogs, social networks, collaboration tools, etc. They come into organizations and change the original way of executing projects. They turn traditional project management into Project Management 2.0 and bring new patterns of collaboration, which are based on collective intelligence. Collective intelligence is a collection of valuable knowledge from different fields that each project team member is an expert in. This knowledge is now successfully collected and shared shared in a flexible, collaborative environment brought by second-generation project management software. The project manager is the one to conduct the work of his team and choose the right direction for the project development, based on the information received from the individual employees.
Récapitulatif de la conférence Office 2.0 | Entreprise 2.0
Le blog Read/Write Web a eu la gentillesse de publier un compte-rendu de la conférence Office 2.0 qui s’est déroulée ce mois à Boston ( Office 2.0 Day 1 et Office 2.0 Day 2). Plusieurs tendances lourdes semblent émerger ou se confirmer.
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- L’avantage sur les coûts est significatif. Exemple avec une société de 150 personnes qui a investi 1,5 M $ dans une plateforme Siebel alors qu’une autre ayant déployé SalesForce sur 130 personnes ne débourse que 140K$ par ans.
- Les meilleurs candidats au modèle SaaS sont les sociétés technologiques, les sociétés de service et les sociétés à forte croissance / saisonnalité
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- Un modèle de gestion de projet fédérée où chacun s’organise comme il le souhaite (avec ses outils), le système se charge alors de syndiquer les données et informations ;
- Des interfaces et outils très simples à utiliser permettant d’alléger la charge de travail administrative du chef de projet (manipulation de nombreux fichiers, gestion des versions des documents, time sheet…) et de se concentrer sur de la vraie gestion de projet (les aspects humains).
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Many-to-Many Structure Flexibility vs. Stiff One-to-Many Hierarchies
With project management 2.0 tools, you can start with one task, add fifteen more, organize them, add more tasks, reorganize them and repeat the process on a daily basis. When all team members walk through this process, you start to bring the power of many to work in your planning process. Many-to-many structures emerge with the help of team members’ collaboration.
Project Management 2.0 Blog: Social Project Management. Social Project Management: Another Point of View
According to Leisa, they are: small teams, motivated people, limited planning, minimal scope, small projects, rapid release, responsiveness, and iterations. Leisa noted that the essential point of her presentation was that “there are other ways to manage projects than ye olde fashioned waterfall methodology.”
Project Management 2.0 Blog: Collaboration. Project Management. Definition of Project Management 2.0
I use the term Project management 2.0 to describe an evolution of project management practices inspired by Enterprise 2.0 tools. Traditional project management software implies project manager acting as a proxy in all project related communications, thus reducing productivity of project manager and the rest of the project team. New tools bring collaboration into the planning process, making the team much more productive and changing not only the technology, but process as well.
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