Project Management 2.0 (sometimes mistakenly called Social Project Management

Social Project Management

Social project management is a non-traditional way of organizing projects and performing project management. It is, in its simplest form, the outcome of the application of the social networking paradigm to the context of project ecosystems, as a continued response to the movement toward...

) is one branch of evolution of project management

Project management

Project management is the discipline of planning, organizing, securing, and managing resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end , undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, typically to bring about beneficial change or added value...

 practices, which was enabled by the emergence of Web 2.0

Web 2.0

The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...

 technologies. Such applications include: blogs, wikis, collaborative software

Collaborative software

Collaborative software is computer software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve goals...

, etc. Because of Web 2.0 technologies, small distributed & virtual teams

Virtual team

A virtual team is a group of individuals who work across time, space and organizational boundaries with links strengthened by webs of communication technology...

 can work together much more efficiently by utilizing the new-generation, usually low or no-cost Web-based project management tools. These tools challenge the traditional view of the project manager, as Project Management 2.0 represents a dramatic increase in the ability for distributed teams' collaboration

Collaboration

Collaboration is working together to achieve a goal. It is a recursive process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals, — for example, an intriguing endeavor that is creative in nature—by sharing...

. While Web 2.0 tools and Project Management 2.0 systems may enable the project team to collaborate more richly online, these tools often have no audit-able project management functionality, and the Project Management 2.0 term may be a misnomer .

Comparison of Traditional Project Management and Project Management 2.0

While traditional project management structures focused on the paradigm of the project manager as controller , Project management 2.0 stresses the concept of distributed collaboration, and the project manager as a leader. Project management 2.0 advocates open communication. While traditional project management often was driven by formal reporting and hierarchical structures, project management 2.0 stresses the need for access to information for the whole team. This has led to one of the many criticisms of Project Management 2.0 - that it cannot scale to large projects. However, for distributed teams performing agile development, which are often emergent structures, the use of rich collaborative software may enable the development of collective intelligence

Collective intelligence

Collective intelligence is a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making in bacteria, animals, humans and computer networks....

Common comparisons of traditional project management vs. project management 2.0 are listed in the table below.

Traditional Project Management	Project Management 2.0
Centralization of control	Decentralization of control
Top-down planning	Bottom-up planning
Authoritarian environment	Collaborative environment
Implied structure	Emergent structures
Limited/Restricted Access to the plan	Organized/Unlimited Access to the plan
Local Access to information	Global/Live Access to information
Limited Communications within team	Unlimited Communications within team
Separate projects	Holistic approach
Overly complex tools	Easy to use tools
Rigidity of tools	Flexibility of tools

Criticisms

1. Project Management 2.0 is sometimes treated as a neologism and a marketing buzzword. The argument exists that Project Management 2.0 does not represent a new way of executing project management and delivering projects, but just a variation of traditional project management.
2. Sometimes Project Management 2.0 is regarded as a separate methodology of project management that can be applied to small projects only.
3. Web 2.0 and PM 2.0 tools are often islands of technology, and do not enable collaboration across multiple project teams, unless all teams have chosen the same tool implementation.

See also

• Social Project Management
  Social Project Management
  Social project management is a non-traditional way of organizing projects and performing project management. It is, in its simplest form, the outcome of the application of the social networking paradigm to the context of project ecosystems, as a continued response to the movement toward...
  
  
• Groupware
• Social software
  Social software
  Social software applications include communication tools and interactive tools. Communication tools typically handle the capturing, storing and presentation of communication, usually written but increasingly including audio and video as well. Interactive tools handle mediated interactions between a...
  
  
• Collaborative software
  Collaborative software
  Collaborative software is computer software designed to help people involved in a common task achieve goals...
  
  
• List of collaborative software