(2003-03-27) Udell Project Blog

Jon Udell on WebLog for Project Management Software. But if you use the project Weblog to gather and post key documents such as specs or status reports as well as selected e-mail discussion-related to them, you'll find it's easy to get into a rhythm: quote fragments on the Weblog, upload the supporting documents, and link to them. I prefer Wiki For CollaborationWare - all those documents are part of the same space, with appropriate Intertwingularity.

Also links to 2001 piece Framing it as Story Telling. The power of narrative, whatever its purpose, flows from a deep human need to identify with a group, and above all to find out what happens next. What's this got to do with virtual teams? Perhaps quite a lot, I concluded last week. The distributed project I mentioned was under intense time pressure but lacked focus. Documents were flying around in email crossfire. Phone conferences dragged on as people rooted through their inboxes. Days were passing. The project needed its own weblog, and I needed to write it.