by Dr Neil Miller
11. February 2010 17:00
Most people will agree that collaboration occurs between people, but current management methods (such as project management) focus on tasks with people as resources. Yet the workplace norm is people centric collaboration where people create team networks to do work. Unlike social networks, team networks exist to achieve business goals.
In social networks people tend to interact with people they are related to or like. However in a business, people need to interact with the people who can contribute to their business goals.
Every task has a team of stakeholders that includes people who may not be doing the task, but still need to know about the task. Consequently filtering tasks by stakeholder provides a more comprehensive view than filtering tasks by people resources. Filtering by stakeholder creates a unique “person centred” team network that includes all tasks where the person is a stakeholder.
Important context can be easily added by ensuring that a person is a stakeholder in the tasks around the tasks where they are responsible or a delegate. Security and privacy can be managed by only letting stakeholders see tasks (where they are a stakeholder).
Creating and dynamically updating team networks sounds incredibly complex and it is. However TASKey has developed and validated a combination of methods and web software that makes managing team networks and people centred collaboration easy.
More information can be found at: www.taskey.com for enterprise users and www.Me2Team.com for smaller users.
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