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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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UPDATE

So in the last 24 hours I made a conscious effort to use and fall in love with Foursquare... I didn't. I became a mayor and got some more badges.... Yay...

The thing is badges just aren't anywhere near the social currency of a card in Flook for example... My friend @reyes said it best:

"Finding myself learning more and more about London as I hunt out the perfect flook" - http://twitter.com/reyes/status/7786945085

Also theres this from @nicolariordan - "I've found some great hidden pubs and restaurant near me with it"

Flook cards are more analogous to the human conversation around location... I don't ever remember texting or calling people to "checkin" and if I did I'm pretty sure they'd respond "are you drunk and / or why do I care?"

And so today, despite me picking up another snazzy badge from Foursquare (http://foursquare. com/user/danwtmoon/badges/506207), I'm deleting the app and focusing on location browsing.

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Being going through an early spring clean across all areas of life recently... I've previously blogged about my app cleanup on iPhone taking me down to ~50 from ~120...

Since then I've been in the frame of mind of only retaining apps that I am actually using most, if not all, days for more value than just because I can...

Today Foursquare is under close scrutiny... I've previously had Brightkite, Rummble, Gowalla, Foursqaure and Flook all on my iPhone. today I have only Flook and Foursqaure.

Short background of the others history is that Rummble has a UI that causes me tears and is too buggy (shame as having met @andrewjscott, I know the guy is smart and passionate but unfortunately doesn't have an infinite army of developers to execute what on paper is a good product); Brightkite has gone the way of the dodo given I don't see value of pure checking in and so Gowalla / Foursquare killed it; Gowalla was preferred over 4sq until they went *everywhere*...

Flook has been omni-present on my iPhone since being on the beta.

So 4sq is under scrutiny today.. I'm going to take extra care to checkin everywhere and look for tips... At the end of the day if I feel better for it then it will stay... If not it goes and leaves on Flook. I found it interesting that @scobleizer seemed to praise 4sq becuase of tips... Well with 4sq, at least in LDN, there's very little tipping and if that's what floats your boat Robert then Flook is just the tip part of 4sq minus the novelty of checking in..

Flook FYI is under no threat at all. It's the perfect location app and the reason I state this as fact is that it has no hype.. You know what I mean? All the hyped products suffer because actually their biggest selling point was promise from the hype not the *actual* product.
Looking at my twitter stream I see people like @reyes flooking away and genuinely getting value of the awesome location browser. Do I see love for the novelty of checking in and being a mayor? No

So Flook rocks (if you have iPhone get from app store / http://flook.it and 4sq is under threat...
I'm checking out of checking in

So I'm quite partial to an app or two for my iPhone. I have over 200
in iTunes and had about 3/4 of then on my phone.

It was all great but I found too many apps gathering dust having gone
past the novelty period of enjoyment.

So a spring clean was in order.

Also as an aside I was curious abou life with a Google Nexus One.
Having checked the Android marketplace I would be massively down on
apps. This spring clean would perhaps give a taste of Android life.

The framework for reducing the number of apps was to have only one row
per app store categrory. That means only four social networking or
business apps in total on my iPhone.

Life is hard :p

So my new iPhone setup is:

         

Click here to download:

App_spring_clean_for_iPhone.zip (276 KB)

Recently by magic the issue went away.

Its now back with a vengeance. To the point it's picking up subscribed calendars I removed over six months ago :(

I've been on forums done restores and removing / re-adding MobileMe but nothing fixes.

Am I the only one with this issue? Do you know of a fix?!

Please help!

Gonna be weird listening to the world go by for the first time in a long while... Makes me wonder how much is missed / not experienced by always being either plugged in to content on devices such as iPhone or conversations with friends, family and coworkers.

Let's find out...