Blogs, wikis, and social networks top the list for collaboration tools among project team professionals, right? After all, they bring the entire team together in ways nobody ever thought possible. But that’s not what the latest Ziff Davis study found. In fact, “shared project management tools” was in the top ten, up there with simple old email. Didn’t know that? Check out this article by Allan Alder at CIO Insite.
http://www.cioinsight.com/c/a/Research/Collaboration-Unlocking-the-Power-of-Teams/
It’s buried on page five, but the zinger quote below tells it all. Check out the chart on page 5 too. It tells us that products like Standard Time® really are important! They are the ones bringing project teams together. “Shared project management systems” ranked at #8, while “MySpace” was at #27, just above “None of the above.”
Shared project management systems, workflow systems, real-time document collaboration tools and knowledge management systems are considered more important than any Web 2.0 technology: They are widely used by project teams and, to a slightly lesser extent, by co-workers engaged in business processes.
I’d like to see the list of collaboration tools you find useful for your project team. If you are not using Standard Time, what are you using? I’d like to hear!
–ray