Have you gotten together in a team and divided work unsuccessfully?  Perhaps you worked in a student team creating business plans, and two classmates thought they were in charge of researching financials, leaving market research a huge hole in your presentation.  Maybe you were running a charity event, and your co-worker forgot to grab the […]

I just read a great blog over at Altitude Branding about the difference between working hard and working smart.  It’s a trap I have fallen into before.  For example, when I start a new ambiguous project, I often find myself doing the “task-oriented” stuff (such as writing blogs or compiling customer lists) rather than dive […]

My last post was an observation on the absence of “teams” in popular definitions of project management.  But it’s not just that the term itself is missing essential elements.  I’m beginning to believe that “project management” is a term as broad as “general population.” Here’s what I mean.  Drinking coffee the other day, I ran […]

While outlining Fellowstream’s “min spec” (i.e. the most barebones version of Fellowstream we were willing to create for launch), we asked a lot of people who have worked on teams what they want most in a project management tool.  Features like calendars showed up, which fit our expectations, but almost just as often, people asked […]