Collaboration tools?

By Mathias HellquistPublished: February 11, 2011 at 10:00 Tags: #apps, #projectmanagement, #teamwork

Post its by adactio

I need to find tools for project/team work that does the following:

Handles source code (integration), with version control (.svn, .git, .vss etc)
- It would be really nice if it handled creative assets too (.gif, .jpg, .png, .psd, .fla etc)
Has task/bug tracking. Preferably connected to the source code.
Has project planning/current/follow-up tools with time estimation. Preferably connected with task/bug tracking.
- It would be really good if it was adaptable to various project methodologies (and/or not dependent on a single specific one).
It would...

Project Team Zen – Part III

By Mathias HellquistPublished: November 24, 2009 at 11:00 Tags: #projectmanagement, #teammanagement, #teamwork

Scene by valho

This is the third article in a series covering the topic of Project Team Composition, hence the incredibly cunning name of it. So we have now established people in our Dream Team should have complementary skills of a similar level. We have also established people in our Newbie Team should have complementary skills of a similar level, mainly because it really doesn't matter what level you put the team on, it needs to be of a similar level if you are striving towards Project Team...

Project Team Zen – Part II

By Mathias HellquistPublished: November 12, 2009 at 09:00 Tags: #projectmanagement, #teammanagement, #teamwork

Scapegoat by h.koppdelaney

This is the second article in a series about Project Team Composition. You can find links to the related articles in the series index above.In the last article I said there are a few things a good well-oiled constantly habitually repetetive winning teams need to have:

Complementary skills, and knowing and trusting the others will do their part
Approximately the same skill level
Striving for similar goals
Mutual respect for each other, and for each others skills

Lets start going through that list in more detail, and today I...

Project-Team Zen – Part I

By Mathias HellquistPublished: November 11, 2009 at 08:59 Tags: #projectmanagement, #teammanagement, #teamwork

The Fed Ex Forum Awaiting the New Season

Arena

The concept of team work, and project teams, is an interesting one, particularly as there can be more combinations of teams than there are people. As this will be a series of posts on the topic I shall start this one with laying the foundation for some of the reasoning later.I ended my old article, Excellence - Teamwork or flying Solo, with the following statement:

Point being, if you have a well-oiled team, who knows each other and each others skills, and...

Excellence – Teamwork or flying solo?

Have you, in your life, been part of something truly excellent, created, at least partially, by you? Something that made you think afterwards: -”How on earth did I pull that off?” or -”I had no idea I was capable of that…“? Think carefully, as this doesn’t have to be work related, it can be your first-born child, the first time you won a major sports event or when you pulled off that solo during a live concert in front of 3000 people. Chances are you have had that feeling at some point.
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