Is there a line between Project Management tools and systems and your collaboration platforms? When I worked as a technical project manager in the 1990’s and grew into roles where I built out and managed project and portfolio management systems, these tools were often separate platforms, and outside of the...
The move to the Digital Workplace will not happen at the flip of a switch, and yet that doesn’t stop tech journalists and IT die-hards from making predictions and forecasts that lean heavily on current trends – while often ignoring the cultural nuances that can make change difficult. A great...
I was chatting with Jeff Fried over at BA Insight yesterday, and I was reminded of a conversation we had a few years back while in either New York City or Washington DC (honestly, I can’t remember which) where Jeff was teaching a workshop on architecting enterprise search, or something...
Back in early 2014, I wrote a piece for Wired.com called ‘The Future Requires Social Portability’ where I reminisced on a time from my telecommunications career when we built out a number of key operational capabilities, including number portability. It’s something we largely take for granted now – when you...
When most people think about collaboration, they often have specific features in mind. Some people think of the new Microsoft Teams, Yammer, or Slack. Others look at Skype, or the many different web conferencing platforms, as enabling collaboration. Still others think of SharePoint and Office 365. All of these tools...
For my final blog post last year, I compiled a list of the top 10 most viewed posts on this blog in 2015. As I started compiling a 2016 version of that list, I realized that just because some of the posts had strong traffic doesn't mean they were my...
For those who know me well, I have been bullish on social collaboration going back to the late 1990's when I co-founded my first software company and helped create a project management solution that was powered by our own social graph. Formed in 1997 with two b-school friends, we were...
You may be the new thing, Workplace, but I've already moved on. Yes, you have the familiar Facebook layout that people know and we use, and I love your live streaming technology that Microsoft and others just haven't been able to figure out just yet. And somehow, when I'm sitting...
As I begin to prepare for some of the fall events, one of the topics I will be picking up again is governance. It’s a subject that continues to interest SharePoint and Office 365 admins, and there have been major announcements around governance, security and compliance from the product team...
Early in my career, I joined a team on the week that a core team member was retiring, and was tasked with helping him with the transition. As a young project manager, I was already well-versed in the difficult process of transcribing years of knowledge and expertise into a consumable...
