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We are feeling very un-Mondayish today, even though it is in fact Monday, the 15th of February. In fact, we%u2019re feeling positively %u201CFriday at the start of a long weekend%u201D! That%u2019s because the kind people at the Mobile Premier Awards, organized by dotopen, have just this minute awarded us the %u201CBest Startup in Mobile Experience%u201D, out of 115 other entries in that category!
This award was sponsored by MEX, whose founder Marek Pawlowski said:
%u201CInvesting in truly user-centered design is essential for a successful mobile service and goes far beyond creating a pretty UI for your app. Flook has embedded great user experience in the heart of its product through clever interaction flow, interesting visual metaphors, customer involvement and attention to detail. It is a deserving winner of this Award and a great example for other start-ups to invest in user experience from an early stage.%u201D
All our robots wholeheartedly agree with Marek%u2019s words. They%u2019d like to point out that user experience was the initial inspiration for flook, when we thought that swiping cards would be a much more mobile-friendly interface for location-based discovery than maps and pins.
We%u2019d like to thank dotopen and MEX for choosing flook, and Andy Chung of Eden Ventures for accepting the award on our behalf.
Jane of the silly hats did (and does) much of the design work on flook, but we%u2019d be very remiss if we didn%u2019t also thank Nick Healey of Slash Design and Pete Borlace of pbdesignsolutions for their massive contributions. Nick is our user experience guru and is a real person not a robot called Robert. Pete is our graphic designer and he dreamt up our rainbow of robots. I%u2019m not sure if he really does wear tin hats.
Yay for more well deserved awesome praise of Flook which rocks socks and generally shows how you should check out of checking in and start location browsing :)
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I think this is a good move and it will be interesting to see how non-compete companies stay that way as products develop in to new markets.. E.g. the evolution of Apple and Google's relationship...
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This article really resonates with me and where I am with a current project...
One thing it should also add is that even the small biz out there should take a look at who in their team is the implicit PMO manager to be responsible for some of this forward thinking... Here's the article:
Many corporations rely on Project Management Offices (PMOs) to centralize project management activities. Just as organizations have to change some of their processes to accommodate web working, PMOs have to be at on the forefront of those changes to manage organizational projects to successful delivery.
Here are some tips if you are seeking to build a web worker friendly PMO to manage geographically dispersed employees, contractors and partners:
Democratize Project Management Data. The democratization of project data has been an ongoing theme in some of my recent project management posts; it becomes more important as project teams leave the confines of the cubicle farm. PMOs need to become more polished communicators of project status data (including schedules, risks, and client requirements) and target audiences at every level of the project from the “worker bee” all the way up to the executive stakeholder. The challenge is that the information has to be understandable by everyone — meaning that views of project data cannot always be shared just by using a Gantt chart.
Move Communications Outside the Email Inbox. 2010 should prove to be a pivotal year for online collaboration tools like Google Wave and enterprise-class social media tools like Yammer and Present.ly (which we’ve covered previously).While email is a traditional and often-used form of project communication it does no good as a repository for project documents. Even if you can’t get your team to embrace online collaboration tools, you at least need to take the small step of ensuring that your project documents are online in a centrally-accessible place.
Implement New Project Management Tools. Microsoft Project and spreadsheets are traditional project management tools but more suited to project teams roosted in the same cubicle farm. The web is the future for project management tools – LiquidPlanner, Zoho Projects, and Basecamp are all examples of web-based tools that are easy to use and help to foster collaboration.
Rethink Meetings. I’ll spare the usual attacks on meetings as being detrimental to productivity, and fast forward to suggesting that meetings will have to change in priority, format and technology. PMOs need to look at conference calls, web conferencing, and online chat for real-time meetings, plus the tools to archive those meetings for later reference.
For PMOs entering a new era of web working, the old staples need to give way to new tools, processes and working styles to ensure the success of the team and timely project delivery. Remember corporate culture, not technology, drives online collaboration and the PMO is in a position to ensure geographically-dispersed project teams have the framework, leadership and tools they need.
What are your tips for building a web worker friendly PMO? Share them below.
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The nets will be (RED), the player's laces will be (RED) and my Twitter page is (RED) (http://twitter.com/danwtmoon)
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From independent movie shop in Bath... Finally Phil's email newsletter get's a worth expansion to a whole website.. He's not often off the mark with his reviews / comments... Good source of info for movie fans... Especially those with a skew to independent / quality cinema :)
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