Tag Archive: collaboration
From The Smoke to The Snow and back again
Sitting here with my coffee, sandwich, unfinished crossword and contemplating another of my now regular monthly trips from London to Halifax, I think it’s been a particularly productive few days.
Aaron’s presentation revealed impressive progress on the new release of Vites; not least because of a 400% speed increase, an automated transition to the use of [...]
Project management…collaboration stylee
We rolled out Basecamp company-wide in January 2008 and now manage around 70 live projects in a wonderfully collaborative manner. It dramatically changed how the organisation worked internally and many of the clients subsequently took up using the application themselves for other projects.
Changing from an ugly and ill-formed email-based system into a simple, fast and cloud-enabled application has reduced costs, increased control and brought a whole host of really important improvements to how we work…
Coordination vs cooperation vs collaboration
This came out of the realisation that traditional project management techniques of timed-tasks, set-in-stone milestones and rigid development specifications were hampering what we delivered to our clients when any methodology we use should enhance it. Yes, it makes life *simpler* but at the cost of *mechanising* the process which we felt stifled creativity and brought [...]
