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Friction-Free Collaboration

Posted by Construction 10 October, 2009 (0) Comment
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I‘ve just arrived at the PMI Global Congress 2009 in Orlando, FL. Tomorrow AM a number of us who are members of the PMI New Media Council will be speaking in a panel on social media and its impacts on the discipline of project management. Among other things, I’ll be talking about my company’s experience using Yammer. Our experience has been good. More on that later.

It’s great seeing a smiling colleague’s faceOur company works with architects, engineers and construction firms along with the clients of those firms. We’re a small consultancy…just 12 people all working out of their homes in all 4 US continental timezones or at our clients’ work sites. We can get isolated from one another. Many of us have become way too self-reliant going so far that some people reinvent materials because it appears easier than collaborating with peers. While we take great measures to make the company’s materials widely available using Windows Live Sync, still we weren’t collaborating like we wanted to.

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